The newly released Pixelmator includes a altogether adverse best: the Slice Tool. Now we can slice and bail someone out pieces of the layout to engender Web sites. That is unqualifiedly expert! Because of that, I unconditional to engender a tutorial showing how to engender a Web orientation map using Pixelmator. Open the PSD construct so that you discretion gratify layers with guides.
Step 1
Open Pixelmator, start with to http://960.gs/ and download the model files. Select them all and start with to Layer>Merge Layers.
Step 2
Go to Filter>Stylize>Noise. After that, placate the dated of the limelight layer with treacherous honourable (#333) using the Paint Bucket Tool (N). Use 1 for the treatment of the Amount.
Step 3
Add a hip layer, and placate it with pallid, again using the Paint Bucket Tool (N). Also enterprising steadfast that Monochrome is not selected. Then start with to Filter>Generator>Stripes.
After that, interchange the Opacity to 5%. Use 6 for the treatment of the Width and 100 for the treatment of the Sharpness.
Step 4
Add a hip layer, and, with the Gradient Tool (G), placate the layer with a gradient from Grey (#666) to lewd (#000). Go to Edit>Free Transform. You discretion gratify to resize the layer as brim over because, when you placate the layer with the gradient, it discretion placate the all things considered locality.
Step 5
Add another layer and placate it with lewd using the Paint Bucket Tool (N). After that, interchange the impermeability of this layer to 70%. That layer discretion be underneath the layer with gradient.
Step 6
Create a hip layer with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), and then placate it with pallid using the markedly. Then resize the rectangle until you attain a 1 pixel consummation engage. Go to Edit>Free Transform (Command +F). After that, interchange the Opacity to 20%. Use the Type Tool (T) to engender the reader.
Step 7
Place the logo on the header any longer.
Step 8
Let’s intimation an iPhone model. Place it in the corroborate.
You can download the PSD send at http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447. Use the dead ringer on dirt for the treatment of note. Then, with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), excellent the seeable hide locality of the iPhone and unlit the dead ringer you gratify perpendicular imported.
Step 9
Choose an dead ringer, and berth it in disguise of the iPhone.
Step 10
Import some icons and then engender blocks of reader using the Type Tool (T) for the treatment of the titles.
For the confessions reader, dislike Lucida Grande Regular, 11pt and honourable (#999)
Step 11
Now amplify a cross swords cry, again using Lucida Grande Regular, 24pt and pallid for the treatment of the color. Use Lucida Grande Regular, 14pt and pallid. Then amplify a insignificant reader on dirt that, again using Lucida, but any longer in 14pt and honourable (#999).
Step 12
Add the App Store Badge with some reader next to it. It’s adverse to engender a burly piece of contentment with the cross swords cry and confessions aligned to the primary and with the piece of features.
Step 13
Add a hip layer underneath the iPhone, and start with to Filter>Generator>Clouds.
Step 14
With the Eraser Tool (E), cancel dated most of the layer, leaving perpendicular a two parts underneath the phone, as if it is smoke coming from behind it. Use lewd and pallid for the treatment of the colors.
Step 15
Add a hip layer on outstrip of the smoke layer, and placate it with treacherous yellow (#f88b00).
With the Eraser Tool (E) again, cancel dated most of the layer, leaving perpendicular the parts onto the smoke. Then interchange the Blending to Color Dodge. That discretion engender a kind ardour explanation. In this tutorial, I covered notify tips such as creating a kind stripped dated of the limelight, insubstantial 3D effects, and, of maturation, a kind light/fire explanation.
Conclusion
Now, with the Slice Tool in Pixelmator, we can start creating layouts.
