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Wed May 13, pm by Victor Lazaro I’m just going to add my vote on this. Wed Jun 03, pm. Sun Jun 14, am Same remark as Victor Lazaro! If you can implement history tool it will help me to leave Photoshop definitely! You make a great job, and I am really impressed! It’s amazing for workflow. Must be some serious reason they haven’t implemented. Maybe memory requirements? I would think you could at least give users the option.

I could be free of my Adobe subscription plan forever! Edit: Love to see that batch editing has been added. Thank you! I love companies that listen to their customers.

I added a star just for that alone. I see file management has also improved. Hey there, as of Pixelmator Photo 1. Would love to hear any feedback you might have if you’ve tried it out! Noise reduction is currently in development, and we’d obviously love to add the other features you’ve requested too.

Oh, and to hide the adjustments, you can slide the adjustments pane out to the right or simply close the Color Adjustments tool by tapping its icon. Image processing : you can freely import images from various devices iPhone, iPad, scanners and edit them as you like: change the size, trim, rotate, and export.

Tools : enjoy over forty tools designed for painting, drawing, and retouching, but also some selection and basic tools, such as crop, hand, and zoom, among many others. Metadata : view every image’s metadata. The photo browser will now show progress when downloading photos from iCloud and when indexing image search results. You can now Control-click an image thumbnail to access a shortcuts menu with additional image opening options. Option-click the Open button in the photo browser to open the original, unedited image for images edited in Photos or using third-party extensions.

If an image fails to open, Pixelmator Pro will show more informative errors to help you troubleshoot issues quicker.

You can now add and edit layer styles of multiple selected layers. Original styles — fills, strokes, and shadows — applied to each individual layer are kept. You can also add, paste, and reset layer styles, color adjustments, and effects of multiple layers at a time. When exporting an image multiple times during the same editing session, Pixelmator Pro will now remember the last used document color profile setting.

Advanced shapes exported to Motion file format will now be more accurate. You can now reset all Crop and Quick Export presets to default. The Reset All option will appear when pressing and holding Option while in the preset shortcut menu. Images with certain effects would sometimes look different when exported. Pixelmator Pro would occasionally stop responding when saving changes.

Trying to load a Photos library that’s been deleted or removed with an external storage drive would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Use the new Shrink Text to Fit feature to automatically reduce the size of text when it’s too big for its text box or path. Pressing Shift-Enter while typing will now continue text from a new line instead of a new paragraph. You can now quickly preview images in the photo browser by pressing the Space bar. Replace layers, shapes, and save custom shapes more quickly using new shortcut menu options and main menu items.

When inserted, larger images will be automatically resized to fit the canvas. Thanks to performance optimizations, editing complex compositions is now 5 times faster. Memory management has also been improved to fix and prevent memory-related issues.

Automatically select the subject of any image — also with just a click. Easily make advanced selections of challenging image areas — even hair or fur.

Use Smart Refine to turn a rough selection into a pixel-perfect one. Automatically remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects. Export files to Motion format to create motion graphics more easily than ever.

The design of the Export for Web tool has been refreshed to make it easier to use. Use the new Distribute Spacing feature to easily evenly space objects of different sizes. Use the new Remove Background feature to automatically remove the background from any image with just a click. Find this new feature in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar, the Edit menu, by pressing the Shift-Backspace keyboard shortcut, by pressing and holding the Command key when dragging and dropping images into Pixelmator Pro documents, as a Quick Action in the Finder, and when Control-clicking image layers in the Layers sidebar.

The new Select Subject feature lets you automatically select the subject of any image — also with just a click. Note that this feature works especially well on macOS 12 and devices powered by the M1 chip. Thanks to the new Select and Mask tool, you can now make advanced selections of challenging image areas — like hair or fur — with ease.

In the Select and Mask tool, you’ll find a redesigned Smart Refine feature that turns rough selections into accurate ones automatically. When using the Select and Mask tool, you’ll also find a Refine Edge Brush that intelligently makes accurate selections of edge areas.

To see your selection in more detail, you can try different selection overlays, like On Red, On White, or Black and White. Once you’ve refined your selection, choose to ouput it to a selection, a mask, a new layer, or a new layer with a mask. In addition to the Select and Mask tool for refining and creating selections, we’ve added a Refine Mask tool for refining and creating masks.

Use the Decontaminate Colors feature to remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects. The Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app have been updated to be able to remove backgrounds and create subject masks from any image not just portrait images.

The Export dialog now features an option to export images at custom sizes and scale factors. The last-used export location will now be remembered app-wide rather than for each document.

A progress indicator will now be displayed when using the Denoise feature. When exporting images to custom sizes using the Export dialog, the Bilinear algorithm will now be used for resizing rather than Lanczos.

When exporting to PNG using the Export dialog, small images with no color profile would be a little larger than they could be. The Custom Size option in the Export dialog would remember sizes incorrectly.

Outlines for completely straight paths drawn with the Pen or Free Selection tool would sometimes be displayed incorrectly. When using the Select and Mask tool, outputting a selection of a RAW layer to a new layer would create graphical artifacts. So, we added support for complex shapes using vector masks!

We were planning to only add support for vectors in Motion but, at the beta testing stage, we had quite a few request for image layers too. However, as we added support for image layers, we decided we could do this too. Image masks on all layer types are supported! If you apply a Gaussian blur using the Effects tool in Pixelmator Pro, it will be preserved when you export it to Motion.

Pixelmator Pro features a huge number of Shortcuts actions, including a Convert Image action that lets you convert between different image formats. And you can now use that action to convert files to Motion format! Super happy we were able to add this too. Certain SVG filters and effects are now supported — gaussian blurs, drop shadows, and inner shadows, including SVG 2 drop shadows. Text support has been greatly improved, including support for path text, multiline text, text with multiple styles in spans, better whitespace handling, and more.

SVG masks are now supported, both clipping paths and image masks. Blending modes in SVG files were previously not supported — they are now. Added the ability to constrain the proportions of objects in SVG files, both when importing and exporting.

Fixed an issue that would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly when closing documents. On Apple silicon-powered devices, the speed of advanced PNG compression has been greatly improved.

You can now choose to keep or remove transparency when exporting WebP images optimized for the web. The new Distribute Vertical Spacing and Distribute Horizontal Spacing features let you evenly space objects of different sizes.

Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app were not working with a larger number of images — they should now be able to handle hundreds of images and work faster than before. When using the Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts to export images for the web, remove noise, match colors, or increase resolution, the Pixelmator Pro app would stop responding while these actions were being processed.

Square images would not be resized with the Pixelmator Pro Resize Images action. The View and Window menus have been rearranged to make the View menu a little more compact, moving window-related options to the Window menu. When exporting SVGs using the Export for Web tool, hidden layers will not be included in the final file. The Image Size keyboard shortcut was not working with Japanese keyboards. With certain effects on shapes in PSD files, they would be opened incorrectly. Compatibility with certain third-party cloud storage providers has been improved.

Support for masks in projects exported in Motion format has been improved, adding the ability to extend the lifetime of object masks. This fix was added by our colleague in Kharkiv, who’s been working with us for over a year now.

Although he’s on indefinite paid leave, he saw this bug was an easy fix and pushed it to our git repo. Almost immediately after, he had to run down to his local bomb shelter as the Russian army started shelling residential areas of his city.

The Pixelate effect will now be automatically applied from the top left corner of the image. The default position for the Pattern Fill effect will now be from the top left corner of the pattern image rather than its center to make presets that use this effect function more reliably.

The decimal point can now be used as a decimal separator even in locales that use commas for decimals — if it’s the only separator, points will be considered the decimal separator. If you’d like to disable text field math, use the following Terminal flag: defaults write com. Fixed a few cases where text field and tooltip values would be displayed as -0 or Document opening progress would sometimes be displayed incorrectly.

You can now use the following Terminal flag to switch to package-type document saving: defaults write com. Find 28 powerful Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts, including our entire suite of machine learning-powered tools. Easily create portrait effects with automatic portrait masks for any photos inserted with the FaceTime camera.

Use the beautiful new Bokeh blur effect to apply realistic photographic blurs to images. Pixelmator Pro can now open photos you’ve edited in Pixelmator Photo for iPad.

Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with and works great on macOS 12 Monterey. To show you what Shortcuts can do, we’ve also included 6 very cool sample shortcuts — find those in our What’s New window. The new comparison slider lets you see a split view of any layer with and without edits applied to it. To turn on the slider, you can Option-click the Show Original button in the Tool Options pane when using the Color Adjustments, Effects, retouching, and reshaping tools.

Or, you can force click your image while using the Color Adjustments and Effects tools. When inserting image layers using the FaceTime camera, these will now include portrait masks to make it easier to blur or remove backgrounds and add effects to your FaceTime photos.

Use the new Bokeh blur effect to apply beautiful photographic blurs to images. Thanks to support for importing. Get machine learning-powered suggestions for eye-catching crops with just a click. Instantly fill any layer with a color by dragging and dropping from the new color picker in the toolbar. Automatically paint brush strokes along paths, layers, and selections using any brush in your collection. The redesigned Type tool now includes a text size slider, advanced spacing options, and other improvements.

An all-new engine for opening and saving Adobe Photoshop documents significantly improves support for PSD features such as text, effects, and many others. When opening or exporting PSDs with shapes, these layers will now be preserved as vectors.

The Crop tool has been redesigned and now features an ML Crop button that provides suggestions for how you could crop your photos to make them more eye-catching. The Crop tool will now be much faster with large documents that contain many layers. New perspective correction sliders will let you adjust the perspective of images right in the Crop tool. The Quick Fill feature adds a way to quickly fill images, shapes, and text layers with a color using the magic of drag and drop.

You can drag and drop from any color well in the app onto any layer in your image or even onto layers in the Layers sidebar. The new color well in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar will now display both your foreground and background colors and let you switch between them. The Stroke with Brush feature lets you automatically draw brush strokes along any image layer, shape, or selection, using any brush in your collection.

You’ll see a live preview of your brush stroke as you adjust its basic and advanced settings. You can also simulate tablet pressure and set a maximum pressure location for your brush strokes. The redesigned Paint tool features an all-new brush browser with the ability to search for brushes by name.

After changing the settings of a brush, you’ll also be able to update the selected preset with just a click. The Paint tool now includes a Smoothing feature that will automatically smooth your brush strokes as you paint. The Type tool has received a makeover and now includes a text size slider, buttons for changing text size in small increments, a text field, and text size presets, bringing a wide variety of ways to resize text. The new Advanced Options action pop-up menu makes character spacing, baseline, baseline shift, and ligature options easier to reach.

The new Spacing section lets you adjust line height and the space before and after paragraphs. The new Indents section gives you a way to adjust paragraph indents for the first line and the left and right sides. Double-clicking the thumbnail of a text layer will now choose the Type tool.

Character spacing can now be set much more precisely, with the ability to enter decimal values. The options for adjusting the color of the Pixelmator Pro window background have been updated, adding presets specifically designed for working with images of various colors.

To quickly change the color of the window background, you can now Control-click anywhere outside your image. The color of the checkerboard will now adapt to dark and light appearances. The Selective Color adjustment will now appear above the Color Balance adjustment. When deleting cropped areas, line shapes that are partially outside the canvas will no longer be deleted.

Pressing and holding the Option key while dropping layers into your compositions will now turn off automatic layer naming. Option-Command-clicking a layer thumbnail will now load a selection according to the grayscale values of an image. You’ll also find this in the Edit menu when pressing and holding the Shift key.

After starting to paint a brush stroke, the shape and grain textures would be mixed up in certain cases. Sometimes, when using pressure-sensitive tools, the first brush stroke would be painted without taking pressure into account. After changing certain options using buttons in the Arrange and Style tools, undo steps would not be registered.

After selecting colors from swatches in the Touch Bar, undo steps would not be registered. The layout of the presets in the template chooser would be incorrect after copying certain layers to your clipboard.

When inserting very large PDF documents as layers, these would be cropped. The Show Original button was not working in the reshaping tools.

This update includes no changes to the Pixelmator Pro app itself but fixes an issue with our Mac App Store video. The new Copy Merged command lets you copy your entire layered composition or selected area as one image. Pressing a modifier key while the Hand tool is active would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding.

When adjusting angle options in the Style tool, using the arrows would reset values. The layout of path text was incorrect in various situations. Many more advanced text features in PSD files are now supported in Pixelmator Pro, including symbol sizes and capitalization. The rendering of effects has been significantly improved, too. More properties of ABR brushes are now supported, bringing much improved ABR brush import, including support for bit brushes.

When editing the vector points of shapes, pressing the Escape key will now exit editing without unselecting the shape. The selected appearance of the Info button in the toolbar has been updated to better match the look of macOS The appearance of the View button in the toolbar has been updated. In rare cases, Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly with certain Type tool settings customized in the Touch Bar.

The performance of the Refine Selection tool’s Expand slider has been improved. It would not be possible to quit Pixelmator Pro after certain long-running actions. After viewing a video tooltip and closing it, the tooltip would continue to use resources even after being closed.

When using the Shape tools and previewing blend modes with no shape selected, Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly. Occasionally, the app would quit unexpectedly when closing documents. In certain files, timezones in EXIF timestamp data would be handled incorrectly.

The color of the Pixel tool could not be changed in images without an assigned color profile. Line height in PSD files would be handled incorrectly in certain cases. The thumbnails of Pixelmator Pro files would sometimes be pixelated.

Refine Selection would not work correctly when the selection being refined contained the entire image. Full, native support for the incredible M1 chip means Pixelmator Pro is blazingly fast on M1-powered Macs and tools like ML Super Resolution are up to a staggering 15x faster.

To match the fresh and modern look of macOS 11, Pixelmator Pro also features a new unified toolbar and a beautiful new app icon. An interface redesigned from the ground up with a beautifully modern Mac appearance, a new Effects Browser, workspaces for photography, design, painting, and illustration, interface customization, and much more.

Recover much more detail in the shadows and highlights of photos. Use the Export for Web tool to export WebP images and create export presets.

When opening ProRAW photos with depth masks, they will now be included as layer masks. The fourth version of ML Super Resolution brings improved upscaling of high-contrast textures, better compression artifact removal, including removal of WebP compression artifacts, and better noise removal.

An improved plug-in two, in fact brings full-size Pixelmator Pro file previews in the Finder and thumbnail syncing across iCloud-enabled devices. With full support for LUTs, you can now edit the colors of images using color presets created in other apps. Intelligently convert LUTs into color adjustments using machine learning magic. A set of 48 LUTs in 5 different collections created by the Pixelmator Team is included with this update. Almost every part of the Pixelmator Pro interface has been meticulously fine-tuned and refreshed to make it even more intuitive.

The gorgeous new Effects browser makes it easier than ever to find and apply effects, featuring live effect previews and instant search. Full interface customization lets you customize Pixelmator Pro in any way you like. Choose from four new workspace presets for photography, design, illustration, and painting.

The new, more compact presets browser makes it easier to browse and apply color adjustment, effect, layer style, and shape presets. Thanks to preset collections, you can now group related presets and even share collections with others. Native support for the incredible new M1 chip lets you take full advantage of the power of all the new Apple silicon devices. Thanks to its entirely Metal-powered editing engine, Pixelmator Pro can use the unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon to greatly speed up image editing.

With a dedicated Neural Engine in the M1 chip, the Core ML-powered features of Pixelmator Pro will see huge performance boosts of up to a staggering 15 times. A beautiful new app icon makes Pixelmator Pro feel right at home in your Dock. The new unified toolbar, new-look icons, and all-new native controls make Pixelmator Pro a truly native macOS 11 app.

Quickly zoom your images in and out using the new Zoom slider in the unified toolbar. Find 7 new color adjustment preset collections, including Cinematic, Modern Films, Vintage, and Urban. Speed up creating designs with beautiful new shape collections like Nature, Science, Education, and more. A range of beautiful new layer style and gradient presets will make your text, shapes, and illustrations look even better.

Full app customization gives you complete freedom to customize the position of the Pixelmator Pro Tools and Layers sidebars, the buttons in the new unified toolbar, and the list of visible tools. Change the position of the Tools sidebar, the Layers sidebar, and the tool list, saving your favorite workspace layouts as presets.

Customize the Pixelmator Pro toolbar, adding handy new controls like Document Info and the new zoom slider. A Hand tool for scrolling images is now available — its keyboard shortcut is the H key. The Clone tool can now be selected using the O keyboard shortcut. The Custom Shape tool has been renamed to Shape, it has a new shape browser, and can be selected using the U keyboard shortcut.

Auto Select can now be customized to select layers instead of groups. The Layers sidebar now features an Add button to make it easier to add new layers to your documents. You learn to use it in minutes and you never get lost. Tim27 Dec 16 If you are a user of Affinity Photo there is no reason to buy Pixelmator Pro. If you are a user of Pixelmator, Pro is only a little better. But, as others have said, it has its issues right now.

I appreciate what the Pixelmator team is trying to do with this app, but it’s just not there yet. B-Jefferson-Le-Blanc Dec 12 In my opinion it’s a bit early to release a High Sierra only app. It would be nice to know what features require the new OS. Just my 2 cents. Melis Dec 3 And thats where it goes wrong if you run out of GPU memory, it is prone for crashing the system completely.

It works fine for small files but ones you are going to edit larger files RAW or any other format the problems rises. Lock ups, crashes, sometime the complete OS becomes unresponsive, automatically login out of your account without any notice, loss of work, … Is this a bug or feature in Pixelmator Pro? Frankeed Dec 2 Note that you must be running High Sierra and have a computer with a Metal compatible graphics card. Macmaria Dec 1 As a long time user of Pixelmator, I think the Pro version is a step forward.

I love the new interface and the new selection feature much faster and easy to use. Not 5 stars yet, since the NEW features comparing with the old app are not many. I’m very curious where this app will be in years.

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The distortion features in the app are pretty worthless imo. If I have a logo and need to add simple text I am unable to skew or italicize the text to fit image angles properly.

There needs to be a angle or skew tab in there to angle the text slant in a positive or negative direction. My second major issue is the same thing with images or object layers.

There should be a free transform option or a skew or slant feature to grab individual points of an object to allow for easy manipulation. If the app had those two features added I would give it 5 stars. There are some great features. But the app itself is very limiting with essential functions that limit the user.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More. App Store Preview. Screenshots iPhone iPad. Jul 14, Version 2. Ratings and Reviews. App Privacy. Size Compatibility iPhone Requires iOS Family Sharing Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled. More By This Developer. Pixelmator Photo. You Might Also Like. Affinity Photo. Typotastic – 3D text on photos.

Home Pixelmator Pro History list in Pro? Follow thread. Wed Nov 29, pm Hello! Something like the history list in photoshop. LOVE the app! Can I encourage you to somehow make it available? Or am I out of date and it already exists? Fri Nov 16, pm You can definitely encourage us! This feature is on the feature request list, so it’s more or less on the roadmap, although it’s not a top priority just yet.

Thu Feb 28, pm I can’t find History so I guess it’s still not available. Mon Nov 04, am I’ll add my vote to having a “history list” panel that I could keep in view somewhere. Saving history in PXD files would be even better, but even if that’s not the case, just having the history list that I can click around on and keep an eye on would be great.

Thank you. Tue May 12, pm I’m just going to add my vote on this. A history list is an invaluable tool in Photoshop and would help me fully migrate from Adobe’s program to yours. Love the rest of the program though, but this would really help. Wed May 13, pm by Victor Lazaro I’m just going to add my vote on this. Wed Jun 03, pm. Sun Jun 14, am Same remark as Victor Lazaro!

If you can implement history tool it will help me to leave Photoshop definitely! You make a great job, and I am really impressed! It’s amazing for workflow. Must be some serious reason they haven’t implemented.

 

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Oh, and to hide the adjustments, you can slide the adjustments pane out to the right or simply close the Color Adjustments tool by tapping its icon. The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More. App Store Preview. Screenshots iPhone iPad. Description Pixelmator Photo is the most powerful photo editing app ever designed for a mobile device.

Dec 9, Version 2. Ratings and Reviews. Yearly Subscription. Showcase your designs in 16 stunning, fully-customizable mockups. Enjoy incredibly fast template editing thanks to the machine learning-powered Smart Replace feature. Easily transform the look of templates using built-in alternative elements — lighting, shapes, effects, and illustrations.

Use the new Document Colors feature to quickly change the colors of multiple layers in your designs. Find templates for a wide range of different formats, including posters, social media posts, resumes, and more. Use brand templates to effortlessly build an eye-catching visual identity for your personal brand or business.

Quickly replace placeholder content using on-canvas controls and watch as your custom images or text fit seamlessly into pre-made designs. Transform the look of a design in seconds using alternative elements — shapes, effects, and illustrations — designed exclusively for each template. The template browser has been redesigned, letting you easily browse template collections, see previews of templates, and search. You can search for specific templates by name or enter keywords to show related templates.

Use the new preset browser to more conveniently browse image size presets, manage preset collections, and change document orientation. When replacing placeholder content that shouldn’t have a background, it will be removed from your images automatically. Automatically insert images with the most optimal placement and composition using Auto Fill. Pixelmator Pro will upscale low-res images using Super Resolution if it detects that their quality is too low.

Find 16 fully-customizable mockups for devices such as Mac, iPad, and iPhone, and print formats, including posters, book covers, and more. Quickly adjust lighting or recolor objects in mockups to find a look that compliments your design the best.

When working with templates or mockups, try out alternative color palettes created specifically for each template to see which one looks best for your design. Pixelmator Pro automatically generates color palettes using the colors of elements — styles, shapes, text, and effects — in a particular design.

Quickly recolor your composition by changing, adding, or removing colors from a palette. Easily duplicate, copy and paste palettes between documents, or remove them. Updated templates with a number of improvements and fixes.

Improved Document Colors, clipping mask colors, added search keywords, and more. Thanks to performance optimizations, templates now open even faster. In templates, replace images by dragging and dropping an image onto the Image Placeholder in the Layers sidebar.

In the templates browser, press the Command-Option-P keyboard shortcut to open the list of image size presets. Added a number of changes to improve SVG and PSD file handling, including font handling, text positioning, multiple effect support, and more. After exporting some images, not all image GPS metadata would be preserved. The insertion point would not be displayed in text layers rotated 90 degrees. The Layers sidebar has been redesigned with a fresh new look and a range of usability improvements.

Nondestructively change the look of entire layered compositions more quickly and easily than ever. Speed up creating designs using over new artist-designed vector shapes in categories like science, activities, and symbols. Thanks to optimizations for M1 Ultra, machine learning-powered features are blazingly fast on new Mac Studio devices.

Use the Scrubby Zoom mode to quickly and easily zoom images by simply dragging them. See the most important information about a layer at a glance — the size or font of text, effects and adjustments applied to layers, and more. The photo browser has been redesigned from the ground up, bringing much improved support for iCloud Photos, a smoother photo browsing experience, and more. The shapes browser has been completely redesigned, bringing a quicker and easier way to browse shapes and insert them into your designs.

Pixelmator Pro 2. The Layers sidebar has been redesigned to make it much easier to work with layers. Informative layer subtitles now show useful info about layers, depending on their type: sizes for image layers, text formatting for text layers, path info for shape layers, and more. The design of the blending controls has been updated and they’ll now appear at the top of the Layers sidebar by default. Layers sidebar viewing options can now be customized, so you can change the size of thumbnails, the visibility of layer subtitles, and the position of the blending controls.

You can now quickly add an empty layer using the new Add Empty Layer button. Layer masks will now appear as separate layers in the Layers sidebar.

Layer masks can now be unlinked from their parent layer — double-click the line connecting a layer mask to its layer to link or unlink it. Color adjustments and effects layers let you apply color adjustments or effects to all the layers below them in a composition. These new layer types work just like other layers — they can be masked, hidden, rearranged, and more. You can now easily apply selective edits by using colors adjustments and effects layers with masks.

Use the Shift-Command-A keyboard shortcut to add a colors adjustments layer and Shift-Command-F to add an effects layer. Over new artist-designed shapes have been added to Pixelmator Pro.

Several new shape collections have been added and others have been rearranged, so there are now 10 collections: Basic, Activities, Food, Objects, Arches, Science, Animals, Plants, Organic, and Symbols. All shapes are pixel-perfect — this means their vector points perfectly align with pixel boundaries, ensuring any icons you create won’t have any unwanted blurring.

Thanks to support for the M1 Ultra chip, Pixelmator Pro flies when performing machine learning-based tasks on the latest Mac Studio devices. Tasks like automatic background removal, super-resolution, and photo enhancement are up to 1. The Scrubby Zoom mode makes it easier to zoom images when using a graphics tablet or mouse.

When using the Zoom tool, you can simply drag your image horizontally — like scrubbing video controls — to zoom in and out. When using other tools, first press the Space key, then the Option key to temporarily activate the Zoom tool. If you’d like to, you can change the scrubby zoom scroll direction from horizontal to vertical using the following Terminal command: defaults write com.

You can now create masks by Command-dragging layers onto other layers. You can also copy and paste masks between different Pixelmator Pro documents. You can now set the frame rate and duration when exporting Motion projects. The Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys can now be used to increment and decrement values in text fields. Press and hold the Shift key to use bigger increments. Use the new Option-Right Arrow and Option-Left Arrow keyboard shortcuts to adjust the character spacing of selected text.

Added support for a few more Adobe Photoshop adjustment layer types. Improved SVG writing and reading for better compatibility with other apps. Clipping masks will now be preserved when exporting SVG files.

When replacing images using the Replace Image feature, file sizes will now be better optimized in certain situations. Sometimes, part of the Pixelmator Pro workspace would be hidden when exiting fullscreen. When creating an effects or color adjustments layer from an empty layer, its mask would not be preserved. Color Adjustments and Effects menu items and their keyboard shortcuts would be inactive if the Crop tool was turned on.

Effects with adjustable opacity would sometimes show incorrect opacity values. The width of the fonts menu was incorrect with certain fonts.

Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly when importing Pixelmator Classic brushes. In certain situations, opening the Brushes browser would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Opening photos stored in iCloud will now automatically download full-resolution versions of these photos.

Any changes you make in the Photos app — for example, if you rearrange or rename your albums, add or remove photos — will now instantly appear in the photo browser. It is now possible to change the colors of shapes and Color Fill effect right in the Layers sidebar. To open the color picker, double-click the layer thumbnail. You can now quickly convert color adjustments applied to a layer into a color adjustments layer. Option-scrolling to zoom using MacBook Air trackpads would sometimes work incorrectly.

Changing the image size would not scale the grain size and sharpen radius of the Grain and Sharpen color adjustments layers. Added a few shape-related stability and performance improvements and fixed an issue with shape thumbnails. Thanks to the new shapes browser, finding and inserting shapes into your designs is now quicker and easier than ever. Find the new shapes browser in the Shape tool’s options pane, the Add Layer menu at the top of the Layers sidebar, or add the new shapes browser button to your toolbar.

Seamlessly browse your entire shapes library without switching between different shape categories. The photo browser is now even more stable and powerful, bringing a smoother image browsing and search experience. Use the new Zoom slider to change the size of image thumbnails. Add images to favorites using a Favorite button in the toolbar. Preview image names by hovering the pointer over their thumbnails.

The photo browser will now show progress when downloading photos from iCloud and when indexing image search results. You can now Control-click an image thumbnail to access a shortcuts menu with additional image opening options. Option-click the Open button in the photo browser to open the original, unedited image for images edited in Photos or using third-party extensions.

If an image fails to open, Pixelmator Pro will show more informative errors to help you troubleshoot issues quicker. You can now add and edit layer styles of multiple selected layers. Original styles — fills, strokes, and shadows — applied to each individual layer are kept. You can also add, paste, and reset layer styles, color adjustments, and effects of multiple layers at a time. When exporting an image multiple times during the same editing session, Pixelmator Pro will now remember the last used document color profile setting.

Advanced shapes exported to Motion file format will now be more accurate. You can now reset all Crop and Quick Export presets to default. The Reset All option will appear when pressing and holding Option while in the preset shortcut menu. Images with certain effects would sometimes look different when exported.

Pixelmator Pro would occasionally stop responding when saving changes. Trying to load a Photos library that’s been deleted or removed with an external storage drive would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Use the new Shrink Text to Fit feature to automatically reduce the size of text when it’s too big for its text box or path. Pressing Shift-Enter while typing will now continue text from a new line instead of a new paragraph.

You can now quickly preview images in the photo browser by pressing the Space bar. Replace layers, shapes, and save custom shapes more quickly using new shortcut menu options and main menu items. When inserted, larger images will be automatically resized to fit the canvas. Thanks to performance optimizations, editing complex compositions is now 5 times faster. Memory management has also been improved to fix and prevent memory-related issues. Automatically select the subject of any image — also with just a click.

Easily make advanced selections of challenging image areas — even hair or fur. Use Smart Refine to turn a rough selection into a pixel-perfect one. Automatically remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects. Export files to Motion format to create motion graphics more easily than ever. The design of the Export for Web tool has been refreshed to make it easier to use.

Use the new Distribute Spacing feature to easily evenly space objects of different sizes. Use the new Remove Background feature to automatically remove the background from any image with just a click. Find this new feature in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar, the Edit menu, by pressing the Shift-Backspace keyboard shortcut, by pressing and holding the Command key when dragging and dropping images into Pixelmator Pro documents, as a Quick Action in the Finder, and when Control-clicking image layers in the Layers sidebar.

The new Select Subject feature lets you automatically select the subject of any image — also with just a click. Note that this feature works especially well on macOS 12 and devices powered by the M1 chip. Thanks to the new Select and Mask tool, you can now make advanced selections of challenging image areas — like hair or fur — with ease.

In the Select and Mask tool, you’ll find a redesigned Smart Refine feature that turns rough selections into accurate ones automatically. When using the Select and Mask tool, you’ll also find a Refine Edge Brush that intelligently makes accurate selections of edge areas. To see your selection in more detail, you can try different selection overlays, like On Red, On White, or Black and White.

Once you’ve refined your selection, choose to ouput it to a selection, a mask, a new layer, or a new layer with a mask. In addition to the Select and Mask tool for refining and creating selections, we’ve added a Refine Mask tool for refining and creating masks.

Use the Decontaminate Colors feature to remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects. The Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app have been updated to be able to remove backgrounds and create subject masks from any image not just portrait images. The Export dialog now features an option to export images at custom sizes and scale factors. The last-used export location will now be remembered app-wide rather than for each document.

A progress indicator will now be displayed when using the Denoise feature. When exporting images to custom sizes using the Export dialog, the Bilinear algorithm will now be used for resizing rather than Lanczos. When exporting to PNG using the Export dialog, small images with no color profile would be a little larger than they could be. The Custom Size option in the Export dialog would remember sizes incorrectly.

Outlines for completely straight paths drawn with the Pen or Free Selection tool would sometimes be displayed incorrectly. When using the Select and Mask tool, outputting a selection of a RAW layer to a new layer would create graphical artifacts. So, we added support for complex shapes using vector masks! We were planning to only add support for vectors in Motion but, at the beta testing stage, we had quite a few request for image layers too.

However, as we added support for image layers, we decided we could do this too. Image masks on all layer types are supported! If you apply a Gaussian blur using the Effects tool in Pixelmator Pro, it will be preserved when you export it to Motion. Pixelmator Pro features a huge number of Shortcuts actions, including a Convert Image action that lets you convert between different image formats. And you can now use that action to convert files to Motion format! Super happy we were able to add this too.

Certain SVG filters and effects are now supported — gaussian blurs, drop shadows, and inner shadows, including SVG 2 drop shadows. Text support has been greatly improved, including support for path text, multiline text, text with multiple styles in spans, better whitespace handling, and more.

SVG masks are now supported, both clipping paths and image masks. Blending modes in SVG files were previously not supported — they are now. Added the ability to constrain the proportions of objects in SVG files, both when importing and exporting. Fixed an issue that would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly when closing documents. On Apple silicon-powered devices, the speed of advanced PNG compression has been greatly improved.

You can now choose to keep or remove transparency when exporting WebP images optimized for the web. The new Distribute Vertical Spacing and Distribute Horizontal Spacing features let you evenly space objects of different sizes. Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app were not working with a larger number of images — they should now be able to handle hundreds of images and work faster than before.

When using the Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts to export images for the web, remove noise, match colors, or increase resolution, the Pixelmator Pro app would stop responding while these actions were being processed. Square images would not be resized with the Pixelmator Pro Resize Images action.

The View and Window menus have been rearranged to make the View menu a little more compact, moving window-related options to the Window menu. When exporting SVGs using the Export for Web tool, hidden layers will not be included in the final file. The Image Size keyboard shortcut was not working with Japanese keyboards.

With certain effects on shapes in PSD files, they would be opened incorrectly. Compatibility with certain third-party cloud storage providers has been improved. Support for masks in projects exported in Motion format has been improved, adding the ability to extend the lifetime of object masks. This fix was added by our colleague in Kharkiv, who’s been working with us for over a year now. Although he’s on indefinite paid leave, he saw this bug was an easy fix and pushed it to our git repo.

Almost immediately after, he had to run down to his local bomb shelter as the Russian army started shelling residential areas of his city.

The Pixelate effect will now be automatically applied from the top left corner of the image. The default position for the Pattern Fill effect will now be from the top left corner of the pattern image rather than its center to make presets that use this effect function more reliably.

The decimal point can now be used as a decimal separator even in locales that use commas for decimals — if it’s the only separator, points will be considered the decimal separator. If you’d like to disable text field math, use the following Terminal flag: defaults write com.

Fixed a few cases where text field and tooltip values would be displayed as -0 or Document opening progress would sometimes be displayed incorrectly.

You can now use the following Terminal flag to switch to package-type document saving: defaults write com. Find 28 powerful Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts, including our entire suite of machine learning-powered tools.

Easily create portrait effects with automatic portrait masks for any photos inserted with the FaceTime camera. Use the beautiful new Bokeh blur effect to apply realistic photographic blurs to images. Pixelmator Pro can now open photos you’ve edited in Pixelmator Photo for iPad. Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with and works great on macOS 12 Monterey. To show you what Shortcuts can do, we’ve also included 6 very cool sample shortcuts — find those in our What’s New window.

The new comparison slider lets you see a split view of any layer with and without edits applied to it. To turn on the slider, you can Option-click the Show Original button in the Tool Options pane when using the Color Adjustments, Effects, retouching, and reshaping tools. Or, you can force click your image while using the Color Adjustments and Effects tools. When inserting image layers using the FaceTime camera, these will now include portrait masks to make it easier to blur or remove backgrounds and add effects to your FaceTime photos.

Use the new Bokeh blur effect to apply beautiful photographic blurs to images. Thanks to support for importing. Get machine learning-powered suggestions for eye-catching crops with just a click. Instantly fill any layer with a color by dragging and dropping from the new color picker in the toolbar. Automatically paint brush strokes along paths, layers, and selections using any brush in your collection.

The redesigned Type tool now includes a text size slider, advanced spacing options, and other improvements. An all-new engine for opening and saving Adobe Photoshop documents significantly improves support for PSD features such as text, effects, and many others.

When opening or exporting PSDs with shapes, these layers will now be preserved as vectors. It is an absolute pleasure to use The Pixelmator team has the magic sauce and it can only get better from here. This is my testimony. I remember when Pixelmator Pro came out and dazzled everyone with it’s instantaneous filter affects utilizing the GPU putting shame on “the” primary image editor at the time , and then a bit later they had a few GUI improvements here and there.

However, in the last year or two something amazing has happened — they seem to have crossed some knee-of-the-curve for innovation and new features.

Every time I turn around, Pixelmator Pro is doing something new, something cool, something better and it’s just fantastic. Pixelmator Pro is on the very top of my watch list for what incredible photo editing technology is about to get popular. Pixelmator Pro doesn’t pull punches when it comes to editing photos. It’s not generic applications of filters, it’s not a set of precanned special effects. From their AI Enhance to non-destructive highly-granular controls for experts, coupled now with automation I’m constantly turning to Pixelmator Pro and it’d got my back every time.

You can now easily apply selective edits by using colors adjustments and effects layers with masks. Use the Shift-Command-A keyboard shortcut to add a colors adjustments layer and Shift-Command-F to add an effects layer.

Over new artist-designed shapes have been added to Pixelmator Pro. Several new shape collections have been added and others have been rearranged, so there are now 10 collections: Basic, Activities, Food, Objects, Arches, Science, Animals, Plants, Organic, and Symbols. All shapes are pixel-perfect — this means their vector points perfectly align with pixel boundaries, ensuring any icons you create won’t have any unwanted blurring.

Thanks to support for the M1 Ultra chip, Pixelmator Pro flies when performing machine learning-based tasks on the latest Mac Studio devices. Tasks like automatic background removal, super-resolution, and photo enhancement are up to 1. The Scrubby Zoom mode makes it easier to zoom images when using a graphics tablet or mouse. When using the Zoom tool, you can simply drag your image horizontally — like scrubbing video controls — to zoom in and out.

When using other tools, first press the Space key, then the Option key to temporarily activate the Zoom tool. If you’d like to, you can change the scrubby zoom scroll direction from horizontal to vertical using the following Terminal command: defaults write com.

You can now create masks by Command-dragging layers onto other layers. You can also copy and paste masks between different Pixelmator Pro documents. You can now set the frame rate and duration when exporting Motion projects. The Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys can now be used to increment and decrement values in text fields. Press and hold the Shift key to use bigger increments. Use the new Option-Right Arrow and Option-Left Arrow keyboard shortcuts to adjust the character spacing of selected text.

Added support for a few more Adobe Photoshop adjustment layer types. Improved SVG writing and reading for better compatibility with other apps. Clipping masks will now be preserved when exporting SVG files.

When replacing images using the Replace Image feature, file sizes will now be better optimized in certain situations. Sometimes, part of the Pixelmator Pro workspace would be hidden when exiting fullscreen. When creating an effects or color adjustments layer from an empty layer, its mask would not be preserved. Color Adjustments and Effects menu items and their keyboard shortcuts would be inactive if the Crop tool was turned on.

Effects with adjustable opacity would sometimes show incorrect opacity values. The width of the fonts menu was incorrect with certain fonts. Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly when importing Pixelmator Classic brushes.

In certain situations, opening the Brushes browser would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. The Photos browser has been redesigned from the ground up, bringing much improved support for iCloud Photos, a smoother photo browsing experience, and more. Opening photos stored in iCloud will now automatically download full-resolution versions of these photos.

Any changes you make in the Photos app — for example, if you rearrange or rename your albums, add or remove photos — will now instantly appear in the Photos browser. It is now possible to change the colors of shapes and Color Fill effect right in the Layers sidebar. To open the color picker, double-click the layer thumbnail. You can now quickly convert color adjustments applied to a layer into a color adjustments layer.

Option-scrolling to zoom using MacBook Air trackpads would sometimes work incorrectly. Changing the image size would not scale the grain size and sharpen radius of the Grain and Sharpen color adjustments layers. Added a few shape-related stability and performance improvements and fixed an issue with shape thumbnails.

Automatically select the subject of any image — also with just a click. Easily make advanced selections of challenging image areas — even hair or fur.

Use Smart Refine to turn a rough selection into a pixel-perfect one. Automatically remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects. Export files to Motion format to create motion graphics more easily than ever. The design of the Export for Web tool has been refreshed to make it easier to use. Use the new Distribute Spacing feature to easily evenly space objects of different sizes. Use the new Remove Background feature to automatically remove the background from any image with just a click.

Find this new feature in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar, the Edit menu, by pressing the Shift-Backspace keyboard shortcut, by pressing and holding the Command key when dragging and dropping images into Pixelmator Pro documents, as a Quick Action in the Finder, and when Control-clicking image layers in the Layers sidebar. The new Select Subject feature lets you automatically select the subject of any image — also with just a click.

Note that this feature works especially well on macOS 12 and devices powered by the M1 chip. Thanks to the new Select and Mask tool, you can now make advanced selections of challenging image areas — like hair or fur — with ease. In the Select and Mask tool, you’ll find a redesigned Smart Refine feature that turns rough selections into accurate ones automatically. When using the Select and Mask tool, you’ll also find a Refine Edge Brush that intelligently makes accurate selections of edge areas.

To see your selection in more detail, you can try different selection overlays, like On Red, On White, or Black and White. Once you’ve refined your selection, choose to ouput it to a selection, a mask, a new layer, or a new layer with a mask. In addition to the Select and Mask tool for refining and creating selections, we’ve added a Refine Mask tool for refining and creating masks. Use the Decontaminate Colors feature to remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects.

The Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app have been updated to be able to remove backgrounds and create subject masks from any image not just portrait images. The Export dialog now features an option to export images at custom sizes and scale factors. The last-used export location will now be remembered app-wide rather than for each document. A progress indicator will now be displayed when using the Denoise feature. When exporting images to custom sizes using the Export dialog, the Bilinear algorithm will now be used for resizing rather than Lanczos.

When exporting to PNG using the Export dialog, small images with no color profile would be a little larger than they could be. The Custom Size option in the Export dialog would remember sizes incorrectly. Outlines for completely straight paths drawn with the Pen or Free Selection tool would sometimes be displayed incorrectly. When using the Select and Mask tool, outputting a selection of a RAW layer to a new layer would create graphical artifacts. So, we added support for complex shapes using vector masks!

We were planning to only add support for vectors in Motion but, at the beta testing stage, we had quite a few request for image layers too. However, as we added support for image layers, we decided we could do this too. Image masks on all layer types are supported! If you apply a Gaussian blur using the Effects tool in Pixelmator Pro, it will be preserved when you export it to Motion.

Pixelmator Pro features a huge number of Shortcuts actions, including a Convert Image action that lets you convert between different image formats. And you can now use that action to convert files to Motion format! Super happy we were able to add this too. Certain SVG filters and effects are now supported — gaussian blurs, drop shadows, and inner shadows, including SVG 2 drop shadows. Text support has been greatly improved, including support for path text, multiline text, text with multiple styles in spans, better whitespace handling, and more.

SVG masks are now supported, both clipping paths and image masks. Blending modes in SVG files were previously not supported — they are now. Added the ability to constrain the proportions of objects in SVG files, both when importing and exporting. Fixed an issue that would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly when closing documents.

On Apple silicon-powered devices, the speed of advanced PNG compression has been greatly improved. You can now choose to keep or remove transparency when exporting WebP images optimized for the web. The new Distribute Vertical Spacing and Distribute Horizontal Spacing features let you evenly space objects of different sizes. Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app were not working with a larger number of images — they should now be able to handle hundreds of images and work faster than before.

When using the Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts to export images for the web, remove noise, match colors, or increase resolution, the Pixelmator Pro app would stop responding while these actions were being processed. Square images would not be resized with the Pixelmator Pro Resize Images action. The View and Window menus have been rearranged to make the View menu a little more compact, moving window-related options to the Window menu.

When exporting SVGs using the Export for Web tool, hidden layers will not be included in the final file. The Image Size keyboard shortcut was not working with Japanese keyboards. With certain effects on shapes in PSD files, they would be opened incorrectly.

Compatibility with certain third-party cloud storage providers has been improved. Support for masks in projects exported in Motion format has been improved, adding the ability to extend the lifetime of object masks. This fix was added by our colleague in Kharkiv, who’s been working with us for over a year now. Although he’s on indefinite paid leave, he saw this bug was an easy fix and pushed it to our git repo.

Almost immediately after, he had to run down to his local bomb shelter as the Russian army started shelling residential areas of his city. The Pixelate effect will now be automatically applied from the top left corner of the image. The default position for the Pattern Fill effect will now be from the top left corner of the pattern image rather than its center to make presets that use this effect function more reliably.

The decimal point can now be used as a decimal separator even in locales that use commas for decimals — if it’s the only separator, points will be considered the decimal separator. If you’d like to disable text field math, use the following Terminal flag: defaults write com. Fixed a few cases where text field and tooltip values would be displayed as -0 or Document opening progress would sometimes be displayed incorrectly.

You can now use the following Terminal flag to switch to package-type document saving: defaults write com. Find 28 powerful Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts, including our entire suite of machine learning-powered tools.

Easily create portrait effects with automatic portrait masks for any photos inserted with the FaceTime camera. Use the beautiful new Bokeh blur effect to apply realistic photographic blurs to images. Pixelmator Pro can now open photos you’ve edited in Pixelmator Photo for iPad. Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with and works great on macOS 12 Monterey. To show you what Shortcuts can do, we’ve also included 6 very cool sample shortcuts — find those in our What’s New window.

The new comparison slider lets you see a split view of any layer with and without edits applied to it. To turn on the slider, you can Option-click the Show Original button in the Tool Options pane when using the Color Adjustments, Effects, retouching, and reshaping tools. Or, you can force click your image while using the Color Adjustments and Effects tools. When inserting image layers using the FaceTime camera, these will now include portrait masks to make it easier to blur or remove backgrounds and add effects to your FaceTime photos.

Use the new Bokeh blur effect to apply beautiful photographic blurs to images. Thanks to support for importing. Get machine learning-powered suggestions for eye-catching crops with just a click.

Instantly fill any layer with a color by dragging and dropping from the new color picker in the toolbar. Automatically paint brush strokes along paths, layers, and selections using any brush in your collection.

The redesigned Type tool now includes a text size slider, advanced spacing options, and other improvements. An all-new engine for opening and saving Adobe Photoshop documents significantly improves support for PSD features such as text, effects, and many others.

When opening or exporting PSDs with shapes, these layers will now be preserved as vectors. The Crop tool has been redesigned and now features an ML Crop button that provides suggestions for how you could crop your photos to make them more eye-catching. The Crop tool will now be much faster with large documents that contain many layers. New perspective correction sliders will let you adjust the perspective of images right in the Crop tool. The Quick Fill feature adds a way to quickly fill images, shapes, and text layers with a color using the magic of drag and drop.

You can drag and drop from any color well in the app onto any layer in your image or even onto layers in the Layers sidebar. The new color well in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar will now display both your foreground and background colors and let you switch between them. The Stroke with Brush feature lets you automatically draw brush strokes along any image layer, shape, or selection, using any brush in your collection.

You’ll see a live preview of your brush stroke as you adjust its basic and advanced settings. You can also simulate tablet pressure and set a maximum pressure location for your brush strokes.

The redesigned Paint tool features an all-new brush browser with the ability to search for brushes by name. After changing the settings of a brush, you’ll also be able to update the selected preset with just a click.

The Paint tool now includes a Smoothing feature that will automatically smooth your brush strokes as you paint. The Type tool has received a makeover and now includes a text size slider, buttons for changing text size in small increments, a text field, and text size presets, bringing a wide variety of ways to resize text.

The new Advanced Options action pop-up menu makes character spacing, baseline, baseline shift, and ligature options easier to reach. The new Spacing section lets you adjust line height and the space before and after paragraphs. The new Indents section gives you a way to adjust paragraph indents for the first line and the left and right sides. Double-clicking the thumbnail of a text layer will now choose the Type tool. Character spacing can now be set much more precisely, with the ability to enter decimal values.

The options for adjusting the color of the Pixelmator Pro window background have been updated, adding presets specifically designed for working with images of various colors. To quickly change the color of the window background, you can now Control-click anywhere outside your image. The color of the checkerboard will now adapt to dark and light appearances.

The Selective Color adjustment will now appear above the Color Balance adjustment. When deleting cropped areas, line shapes that are partially outside the canvas will no longer be deleted. Pressing and holding the Option key while dropping layers into your compositions will now turn off automatic layer naming. Option-Command-clicking a layer thumbnail will now load a selection according to the grayscale values of an image. You’ll also find this in the Edit menu when pressing and holding the Shift key.

After starting to paint a brush stroke, the shape and grain textures would be mixed up in certain cases. Sometimes, when using pressure-sensitive tools, the first brush stroke would be painted without taking pressure into account.

After changing certain options using buttons in the Arrange and Style tools, undo steps would not be registered. After selecting colors from swatches in the Touch Bar, undo steps would not be registered.

The layout of the presets in the template chooser would be incorrect after copying certain layers to your clipboard. When inserting very large PDF documents as layers, these would be cropped. The Show Original button was not working in the reshaping tools.

This update includes no changes to the Pixelmator Pro app itself but fixes an issue with our Mac App Store video. The new Copy Merged command lets you copy your entire layered composition or selected area as one image. Pressing a modifier key while the Hand tool is active would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. When adjusting angle options in the Style tool, using the arrows would reset values. The layout of path text was incorrect in various situations.

Many more advanced text features in PSD files are now supported in Pixelmator Pro, including symbol sizes and capitalization. The rendering of effects has been significantly improved, too. More properties of ABR brushes are now supported, bringing much improved ABR brush import, including support for bit brushes.

When editing the vector points of shapes, pressing the Escape key will now exit editing without unselecting the shape. The selected appearance of the Info button in the toolbar has been updated to better match the look of macOS The appearance of the View button in the toolbar has been updated.

In rare cases, Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly with certain Type tool settings customized in the Touch Bar. The performance of the Refine Selection tool’s Expand slider has been improved. It would not be possible to quit Pixelmator Pro after certain long-running actions. After viewing a video tooltip and closing it, the tooltip would continue to use resources even after being closed.

When using the Shape tools and previewing blend modes with no shape selected, Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly. Occasionally, the app would quit unexpectedly when closing documents. In certain files, timezones in EXIF timestamp data would be handled incorrectly. The color of the Pixel tool could not be changed in images without an assigned color profile. Line height in PSD files would be handled incorrectly in certain cases.

The thumbnails of Pixelmator Pro files would sometimes be pixelated. Refine Selection would not work correctly when the selection being refined contained the entire image. Full, native support for the incredible M1 chip means Pixelmator Pro is blazingly fast on M1-powered Macs and tools like ML Super Resolution are up to a staggering 15x faster. To match the fresh and modern look of macOS 11, Pixelmator Pro also features a new unified toolbar and a beautiful new app icon.

An interface redesigned from the ground up with a beautifully modern Mac appearance, a new Effects Browser, workspaces for photography, design, painting, and illustration, interface customization, and much more. Recover much more detail in the shadows and highlights of photos. Use the Export for Web tool to export WebP images and create export presets. When opening ProRAW photos with depth masks, they will now be included as layer masks.

The fourth version of ML Super Resolution brings improved upscaling of high-contrast textures, better compression artifact removal, including removal of WebP compression artifacts, and better noise removal.

An improved plug-in two, in fact brings full-size Pixelmator Pro file previews in the Finder and thumbnail syncing across iCloud-enabled devices. With full support for LUTs, you can now edit the colors of images using color presets created in other apps. Intelligently convert LUTs into color adjustments using machine learning magic. A set of 48 LUTs in 5 different collections created by the Pixelmator Team is included with this update. Almost every part of the Pixelmator Pro interface has been meticulously fine-tuned and refreshed to make it even more intuitive.

The gorgeous new Effects browser makes it easier than ever to find and apply effects, featuring live effect previews and instant search. Full interface customization lets you customize Pixelmator Pro in any way you like.

Choose from four new workspace presets for photography, design, illustration, and painting. The new, more compact presets browser makes it easier to browse and apply color adjustment, effect, layer style, and shape presets. Thanks to preset collections, you can now group related presets and even share collections with others.

Native support for the incredible new M1 chip lets you take full advantage of the power of all the new Apple silicon devices. Thanks to its entirely Metal-powered editing engine, Pixelmator Pro can use the unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon to greatly speed up image editing.

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Easy to use and lots of really useful features. Much, much easier to use than Photoshop. I use this every day. It’s well worth the price and they don’t charge rent! Highly recommended. Jona Aug 22 Very good alternative for PS and much cheaper too. In light of the Developer’s response to my initial review, I have to admit that having executed the suggestions of the Developer without success–no usable image file ever having been generated–I feel I have wasted enough of my time now.

I would prefer getting a refund of my money–perhaps without success. In any case I have trashed the app from my computer and I will not be asking for any more help. No, it’s not free, it’s only a free trial. For me GraphicConverter is the superior multi-tasking tool, for most users and even photographers, graphic editors not artists DragonMaster Mar 2 Really good.

Improvements in interface a major improvement. Still take a look at Luminar 4 and Affinity Photo and Designer as possible significant challenges. Sigsgaard Feb 28 The ML functions are fantastic.