“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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the first Star Wars, back in ’77 when the name was just Star Wars.
Matrix
it was actually a tv show – Space 1999
Matrix
2001 – the effects are still some of the best today
Wonder how many of us that are saying Star Wars saw on the big screen in a theater… I figured I was the only “old fart” around these parts.
Star Wars and I did actually see it on the big screen!
Terminator II. The software may have been made for The Abyss, but in T2, it was pushed to its potential.
Matrix!
Son of Flubber in 1963
The Wizard of Oz
The Matrix
Star Wars
The ORIGINAL Star Wars.
King Kong (the recent one)
Star Wars
Terminator 2 was good, but it was probably The Matrix that really impressed me the most when watching it for the first time.
Star Wars episode 4 … the first one!
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
UHF
Back to the Future
Before T2 there was “The Abyss.”
Avatar
Probably The Matrix
First to blow me away? Jurassic Park!
matrix… absolutely stunning :O
star wars
Blade Runner, it looked so real.
Matrix!!!!!!! 1+2+3!!!! after so many years, still my best!
Star Wars
Gotta agree—the original Star Wars.
Star Wars “Empire strikes back”
independence Day
Tron. Holy cow, that blew my lid when I saw it as a child.
The original Star Wars movies. I watched them as a kid in the early 90’s – before the special editions.
Probably the earlier Star Wars movies, or Matrix.
Toy Story was amazing to me in that it was entirely computer rendered.
Matrix
Star Wars: Last Hope
Blade Runner
2001, a space odessy
Jurassic Park was awesome!!!
Roy Rogers
star wars!!!!!!
Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park
on the Jurassic Park train
Toy Story
Star Wars IV