We’ve now created an interesting letterpress effect while going through the options of the Type Tool. This will give the whole image a little bit of texture. Add a few percentages of monochrome noise to the background layer. In the Effects Browser under the Stylize Section, we find the Noise Effect. For those who are into hex-colors, the color-code we used is: #d7bdbe. In our example we used a slight pink color. Select the Background Layer in the Layers Palette. Let's add some finishing touches to our letterpress effect. Use the gradient handles in the document window to adjust the gradient in such a way that it goes from white to a slightly dark-grey color. Step 4Ĭlick on the Color Box next to the Fill to open the Gradients Palette. As you see, Pixelmator inserts a default blue-tinted gradient. Turn of the shadow in the Styles Palette. We're going to change the style a little in order to make the effect look more interesting. This will already give us a letterpress effect. Click on the style marked in the image below. We will, however, use one of the predefined styles Pixelmator ships with. It is beyond the scope of this tutorial to cover the styles palette in detail. Click on the Styles Button on the Tool Options Bar to open the Styles Palette. To create the actually letterpress effect we are going to apply a Layer Style. Let's bring the letters closer together by setting the Horizontal Spacing to -5%. On the right of the alignment buttons there are two settings that let us adjust the letter spacing both vertically and horizontally. Make sure the Align Text in the Middle of the Text Box is pressed. The other three buttons for aligning text are marked in the image below. Press the Centre Text Button to centre the text horizontally in the text box. Hold the mouse over each-button to see its function. The buttons marked in the image below are for aligning the text horizontally. On the Tool Options Bar there are 7 buttons for aligning and distributing text inside the text box, horizontally and vertically. Select the text just like you would do in a text editor and type the word Letterpress. Step 4Īfter adding the text box you’ll see that Pixelmator adds the word TEXT automatically. The Auto Alignment Guides will help you centre the box. You can do this by clicking inside the text box and moving it around. Align the text box at the centre of your document. For this tutorial it will work best if you draw a pretty large text box yourself. Or we can click and drag on the canvas with the mouse, in order to draw a text box in a specific size. We can just click anywhere on the canvas to add a text box. We can click on the Add Text button in the Tool Options Bar. We can add a Type Layer with a text box in three different ways in Pixelmator. For our project a font size of around 120 would work fine. Here we can choose a font-size or enter the font-size manually. At the right of the Type-Face Selector is the Font-Size Selector. For the Arial font we will choose the Bold style. The names here are different for each font. Next to the font selector we see the Type-Face Selector. On the Tool Options bar, click on the Font Selector and choose the font Arial. Select the Type Tool from the Tools Palette. For this tutorial a document of 800x400 pixels will suffice. Let's start off by creating a new document.
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