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Whether the object you need to choose is rectangular, elliptical, or rectangular with rounded corners, Pixelmator has it for you. You can select areas of a certain shape with the marquee tools or use the lasso tools to make a selection by tracing an element in your image.

When editing images, you'll need to change colors of an object in the image. With Pixelmator, you can selects a specified color or color range within an existing selection or an entire image.

You learn how to be more flexible while making complex multi step selection by knowing options to refine selections are represented as a series of icons in the Options Bar: New selection, Add to selection, Subtract from selection, Intersect with selection

When doing heavy editing on images, you’ll find that need to switch back and forth between select tool and other tools. Knowing these commands are real time saver.

Making good selections is one of the essential core skills and especially true for those projects that require more localized precision. The Refine Selection helps you to add or delete portions of your selection by detecting edges of the selected element.

You might be surprised what you don't know about Pixelmator Brushes. Don't overlook those little lock icons in the Brush panel.

Pixelmator ships with lots of great brushes for us to use, but it's way more fun to create our own, such as a signature brush. Once you have made your brush there are a swathe of settings you can change to give some great effects.

There are different painting tools to create or enhance beautiful pictures quickly and easily. Brush Tool paints soft brush strokes, Gradient Tool fills areas with a smooth blends, Paint Bucket Tool fills areas with a solid color, Eyedropper Tool samples colors, and many more

You will intuitively draw curves and straight segments with equal ease, and you can draw paths as if you were drawing with pencil on a piece of paper

Layers are simply sheets of stacked acetate. You can see through transparent areas of a layer to the layers below. You can also change the opacity of a layer to make content partially transparent.

Cycling through different blending modes of layers that have been applied special color adjustments can bring out unique blending look to the overall image.

You will add some contrast to the tree row meanwhile not make any permanent changes to the image. The best way to add non-destructive edits (that can be removed or modified later) is to add an adjustment layer that floats over the original image. In this video you will use quick mask mode to apply the adjustment to a specific part of the image.

You will add some contrast: darken the clouds and better accent the garden and meanwhile not make any permanent changes to the image. One way to add non-destructive edits (that can be removed or modified later) is to add an adjustment layer that floats over the original image. In this video you will use masking to apply the adjustment to a specific part of the image.

You will change color tone of a flower meanwhile not make any permanent changes to the image. Another way to add non-destructive edits (that can be removed or modified later) is to isolate part of an image into a separate layer, then apply effect, and change blending mode.

You will build a photo gallery by compositing separate layers that have been cut from other images. You will learn to use various selection tools to diversify your workflow and align elements on a background.

You will create a simple poster, from setting up the document to combining graphics and text.

A clipping mask is a group of layers to which a mask is applied. You will learn how to use a clipping mask for masking effects, such as an image showing through text. The bottommost layer, or base layer, defines the visible boundaries of the entire group.

How to create a simple fading text box that can be used in presentation or lower thirds in videos? It is in fact very easy, create a simple gradient within a shape.

Shaky hands can leave you with a crooked image that compromise the quality of your photo's composition. Luckily, there's a super easy fix to these issues. You will straighten a horizon in a photo, and correct skewed perspective in any crooked picture.

Bokeh effect is used to draw attention to their subject by manipulating focus, vignette, and depth of field. You learn to create creamy bokeh, add realistic vignettes and combine multiple color tones. 

A pixel is a single point or the smallest single element in a display device. If you zoom in to a raster image you may start to see a lot of little tiny squares. In contrast, vector images are mathematical calculations from one point to another that form lines and shapes. Since they're based on math, not pixels, vector shapes are extremely flexible. We can draw vector shapes at any size we need, and no matter how much we edit and scale them, or how large we print them, they always remain crisp and sharp.

You will learn to start with existing shapes (vector paths), apply some quick modifications, and make the shapes into your own unique design.

You will learn to combine two or more shapes in interesting ways using the Add, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude options that are available to us when drawing shape

Typography is integral to any design, and it all starts with the text tool. Adding, modifying, and editing your text could not be simpler.

Text styles make it easy to apply a consistent look

Do you wish you could add more texture to your text for your blog or branding? You can, easily! And the possibilities are endless. You can make almost any effect desired, such as adding textures like leather or wood. The effect requires nothing more than a photo to use as the texture, a layer mask, a simple image adjustment, and of course, some text.

Learn how to remove unwanted objects, add objects by cloning, and fix other imperfections in your images with retouching tools

Red Eyes in photos are a common problem when taking photos with a digital camera. The less distance between the lens and the flash, the more likely you will have red eyes in pictures. You can easily fix red-eye photos with just a few click and and make eyes look sharper in a portrait photo

Applying sharpening effects lets you remove fuzziness from your photos. You will learn that all sharpening tools operate by increasing the contrast between adjacent pixels.

You will learn about Liquefy tool to push, pull, rotate, reflect, pucker, and bloat any area of an image. The distortions you create can be subtle or drastic, so you can be retouching images as well as creating artistic effects.

You also learn about Smudge tool, which pushes your pixels around on the screen as if they consisted of wet paint. You can use it on tiny areas of an image to soften the edges of objects in a way that often looks more natural than blurring tools.

You will dive into color adjustments by adjusting the hue (color), saturation (purity), and lightness of the entire image or of individual color components in an image. With the Replace Colors, you can create temporary masks based on specific colors and then replace these colors. 

Learn to use three most basic color adjustment effects to command changes the overall mixture of colors in an image for generalized color correction.

Learn 3 effects that are fast and very easy to use, so that you can quickly improve the overall look of our images by boosting contrast, correct the tonal range and color balance of an image by adjusting intensity levels of image shadows, midtones, and highlights.

Adding color to a black & white image is an effect you see all over the place. it’s great for creating visual interest, and drawing attention to a certain portion of a photo. The process is straight forward enough essentially by grabbing a paint brush and painting color onto the image itself.