“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 22 – Pixelmator
This contest is closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein readers Ronny and Greenldr.
On the Twenty-Second Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) Your very own copy of Pixelmator! – The image editor for the rest of us! In fact, we’re picking TWO winners!
Sure, Photoshop is nice, but it costs more than 4 years at most art schools. Pixelmator is the hot new graphics app that is hip with the kids, and now you too can be hip! (Yes, Pixelmator is all it will take to make you hip).
What makes it so cool? Well, first, it’s the only image editor built exclusively for Mac OS X, and it shows. Pixelmator harnesses the full power of Mac OS X, taking advantage not only of Core Image, Open GL and Automator, but also by supporting, ColorSync, Spotlight and many other technologies, such as one-click access to your iPhoto Library, Quick Look, Tablet support, iSight import. With over 130 filters, advanced painting, color correction, and photo retouching tools, not to mention the ability to open and save in virtually any graphic format known to man. Pixelmator is quite simply the bees knees. (And of course, what graphics app would be complete without Layers?)
Plus to top it off, they sprinkled a generous dose of “eye candy” over the whole thing, which makes it fun to use too! (Click here to check out all the features or download a demo).
To enter: Since the Pixelmator is all about creating awesome-looking graphics, leave us a comment telling us What was the FIRST movie to blow your mind (at the time) with its special effects? Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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Jursassic Park. Velociraptors FTW.
original Star Wars in ’77
Dito on Star Wars
Matrix!
It must be Star Wars :=D
Matrix
White Zombie.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Blade Runner
Star Wars Special Edition. I was a little kid.
I have to go with “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” pretty laame by today’s standards but pretty damn cool for it’s day and my age at the time.
Matrix
No doubt, Star Wars
At the time it must be Avatar, have seen it twice in the 1st week. Of course it was in 3D. But im looking forward to Alice in Wonderland with Deep and Burton.
Back to the future
Terminator 2
I’ll have to say Matrix >_<
Star Wars: 4 years before the “Special” editions came out. I watched those VHS tapes so much
Matrix.. Walked out of the cinema and my mind didn’t function properly..
I knew from the moment trinity kicked the cop that the movie was going to be exceptional.
Either 7th Voyage of Sinbad or the Golden Voyage of Sinbad – I don’t know which I saw first when I was a kid.
Classic Ray Harryhausen stop-motion effects! He also did the animation in Star Wars when Chewie and C3-P0 are playing chess.
jurassic park
Matrix
Jurassic Park.
matrix
Aliens, just watched it recently, and still scares the hell out of me.
Matrix
Star Wars
The Matrix
I would have to say “The Lion King” when I was very young.
We saw a “making of” after the movie in the cinema and they showed how most of the wildebeests during the scene were Mufasa died were animated with a PC.
Concerning this giveaway:
“Maybe this time”… I’ll win:
another for Jurassic Park
I’m dating myself here, but… “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”
Not only the first time I realized that it takes Special Effects to have that homunculus & one-eyed centaur and all those creatures.
And Caroline Munro is a special effect all on her own. *sigh*
matrix
A Nightmare on Elm Street…
Hey, I was a child.
“The Empire Strikes Back”. Also the first movie for grownups I went to see.
the matrix
The Matrix, but not 2 or 3.
Tansformers
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Fantomas
The first one of the Alien movies
jurrasic park
It was Star Wars.
Star Wars started it all
Many of the films mentioned so far have impressed me, particularly since I would have been fairly young.
I’ll go for the anime Akira.
I didn’t know what anime or manga was at the time, but I knew this was something very different from the animated films I had seen so far in my life and knew I had to see more.
Return of the Jedi @ 4 years old.
The original Lord of The Rings
I must be older than the rest. Tron.
ALIEN
The first Matrix!