I think it's pretty cool how some people get so much recognition that their work keep getting featured decades later their death. That's a cool way to remember the master of suspense.
Author: Paulo Antunes | If you want to write an article and have it published here send it via email to abduzeedo[at]abduzeedo.com
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Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
If you’re not looking to spend a lot of money or you just simply want an easy to use application to do some image adjustments on and create very nice effects, then Pixelmator is the tool for you.
I wrote you guys another tutorial to help you get started using Pixelmator. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to create the Aurora Borealis effect which I’ve previously created in GIMP and Photoshop. I must say, Pixelmator is by far the fastest of the three though.
Open Pixelmator and create a new document. Then select a very dark blue and fill the background layer with it.
Create a new layer and select the Gradient Tool (G). If the Gradient box is hidden go to View>Show Gradient or just (shift+command+5) to show it, select the gradient that starts with yellow and go to cyan, pink, and red. Fill the layer with that gradient.
Using the Lasso Tool (L), create a selection like I did. After that go to Edit>Inverse and delete the selection.
Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and add a blur. Then select the Eraser Tool (E) and delete some parts of our shape, like the image below. After that go to Filter>Stylize>Pointilize and apply the filter.
Go to Filter>Quartz Composer>Stylize>Zoom Blur and apply the filter. A dialog box will open with a rope and a controller. Move the rope to change the direction of the effect like the image below. After that change the Blend Mode to Hard Light.
Create a New Layer, fill it with black, and change the blend mode to Color Dodge. Then select the Brush Tool (B) and open the Brush Box. Create a new Brush with:
After that select white for the color and start creating some stars, it’s not necessary to create lots of stars because we will use a filter to do that. Tip: click 2 or more times without moving the mouse to create bigger stars.
Go to Tile>Affine… and apply the filter. This filter will create more stars for us.
Now just add your logo to the image and that’s it.
You will need less than 20 minutes to create this image. As I said before the filters in Pixelmator are really fast, and there is good variety of effects you can do. Some of them you won't need to change any property to get amazing results. Even though it lacks some filters and feautures like Render Clouds, the Layer Styles, and non-destrcutive filters, Pixelmator is an excellent tool, and with the price of $59 dollars, it's much more affordable than Photoshop and definitely worth downloading and testing out.
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And if you don't know them, they actually designed the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbid logos. These dudes are really good.
Author: Paulo Antunes | If you want to write an article and have it published here send it via email to abduzeedo[at]abduzeedo.com
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We’re so used to some tech companies logos that sometimes we think they’ve never changed, they were always like that. But the reality is that they changed, and some were completely redesigned, like IBM, Canon, and Nokia.
You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish?
This article shows us a bit of the evolution of some very important tech companies, like Apple, Micrososft, IBM, Nokia. Below I show some examples but I definitely recommend you to read the full post from The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos.
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Microsoft Office for Mac has a new and sweet site on, it has a awesome and clean design, with some cool drawings, made on flash. And now I ask you, is it a Mac application with a Microsoft name, or is it a Microsoft dude wearing a Mac costume? Anyway, check the site out here!
Author: Paulo Antunes | If you want to write an article and have it published here send it via email to abduzeedo[at]abduzeedo.com
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I know this list might be a bit odd, but designing a banner is actually quite a big challenge. Within that banner, we have to sell the image of our company and or product within a little image, and to make matters worse, often among other banners.
In this post I’ve selected some banners that I think are very well done. Some are pretty common and you may have seen them before, but not in the same place. Besides that, it’s going to be useful when you have to design your next banner, and I know you will.
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