![]() ![]() Then change the white to Overlay, the opacity to 50% and move it down and to the right. White should be below black on the layer palette. Same as with the text, let’s make a circle on two layers. Well ok, let’s take the opacity down a bit, to say – 74.5%. ![]() Those lines were too dark and you didn’t tell me? How could you!? I should just pack my things and go home now. So it’ll look as if those lines break a bit. Well, not really ) Select the upper or lower part of the layer and move it to the left or right. Now focus please since this is the most important (and hardest) part. Then change the blending mode to Overlay. Now let’s add some motion blur (filter – motion blur) and play with the settings until the effect is satisfying. With a black brush draw some amazingly complicated shapes such as those : Pixelmator doesn’t have (as of now) a dropshadow layer style, so that’s the way to go until they implement it.Īnd we could probably stop at that simple, stylish thing, but let’s make it a bit less stylish and a bit less simple. Then moved it down and to the right by 1 pixel. I copied his layer and took the brightness down. Now let’s add our guy from the “Let’s move the creation machine monster around the world” idea. The effect should look somewhat like that: Turn the opacity down to 50 or 60% and with a soft-edged eraser tool erase around the sides where the lower edges could be visible. Making it sort of a “half-circle” thingie. Then put a drop of white in the top middle of the selection. Choose a white brush with soft edge and a really large size. This is a little bit tricky but the effect is one of my favorites recently. Now a slightly different trick for the subtitle – this time we’ll have the Overlay also for the black text, and the opacity down to about 60/70%. Then change the blending mode of the white layer to Overlay, the opacity to about 50% and you’re done. Now the trick for those emboss, nice letters is to move the white layer underneath 1 pixel to the right and 1 pixel down (while selected press right arrow and down arrow once). One should be black, and the other white. Let’s write the same line (in this case “Creation Machine”) twice on two separate layers. We’ll keep it at “normal” blending this time, but you can go wild and experiment if you like. ![]() Then change the layer opacity to about 5 or 7%. And what better way to do that than with some noise? Go to filter / stylize / noise and add some monochromatic noise on a new layer. For the whole background to look “metalic” we need to make it less uniform. Then let’s add another layer, fill it with a grey linear gradient and change the blending mode to screen with an opacity of 76%. Let’s create an 800×600 image and fill the background layer with a circular gradient like so. So if you’re a photoshop user feel free to also try it. This will actually work in photoshop as well since the tools used are the same (even the same keyboard shortcuts). Here’s a quick little tutorial on how to create an emboss + brushed metal + some fire effect in pixelmator. ![]()
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