We've already written 2 tutorials for the Light Painting Effect, one for Photoshop, one for Fireworks, and now we will show you how to create this effect using the new version of Pixelmator , 1.2.

A few days ago we published an excellent video from a French band called Justice, the name of the clip was DVNO and the coolest thing was that it was full of references from the 80’s. Besides that, there was a great interview with James White, and again, his work is full of elements from the 80’s. With all that retro inspiration in mind, I decided to write a new Pixelmator tutorial

In this tutorial I will show you how easy is to create the Aurora Borealis effect using Pixelmator. I have done this effect in GIMP, Photoshop, and now Pixelmator. I have to say Pixelmator is the fastest of them all, by far.There is one more thing, we have I have a copy of Pixelmator to give away. To win just leave a comment below filling the email field. You have until Friday, February 15th.

After a week on vacations, I’m back and lots of things happened while I was off. One of the coolest things was that the Pixelmator was released and everybody can get it for 59 dollars, that is a really affordable price. However the sad part of the story is, as I was fortunate to be a beta tester, I lost the beta user’s discount because I was away.