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Pixelmator Pro

Name: Pixelmator Pro
Price: 39.99 $
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

1.4

24 July 2019

Beautiful and powerful image editor.

Overview

Pixelmator Pro is an incredibly powerful, beautiful, and easy to use image editor designed exclusively for Mac.

With a wide range of professional-grade, nondestructive image editing tools, Pixelmator Pro lets you bring out the best in your photos, create gorgeous compositions and designs, draw, paint, apply stunning effects, design beautiful text, and edit images in just about any way you can imagine. And thanks to its intuitive and accessible design, Pixelmator Pro is delightfully easy to use - whether you’re just starting out with image editing or you’re a seasoned pro.

The modern, single-window interface is designed exclusively for working with images on a Mac. An intuitive and accessible design makes it easy for anyone to edit images - from complete beginners to design professionals.

What's new in Pixelmator Pro

Version 1.4:

The incredibly powerful new Photos extension lets you edit images using Pixelmator Pro without ever leaving the Photos app.
Every Pixelmator Pro tool and feature is available in Photos.
Save layers and other nondestructive changes directly to your Photos library and sync between computers via iCloud.
Enjoy support for all Pixelmator Pro keyboard shortcuts in Photos. New Zoom Tool and Improved Crop Tool
Effortlessly zoom and scroll images with the brand new Zoom tool.
Use the Navigator to move around large images with ease.
Check out the updated Crop tool - it now has a Delete mode, redesigned presets, and the ability to crop to custom pixel sizes.
Use the new Delete mode to permanently delete unwanted image areas after cropping.
Crop presets have been moved to the Tool Options pane, freeing up more editing space for your image.
Constrain crops to exact pixel sizes.
Flip Vertically and Flip Horizontally commands are now available in the Crop tool. Improvements
You can now insert layered images - in PXD, PXM, SVG, or PSD format - right into existing Pixelmator Pro documents using drag and drop.
Copying and pasting layered files from Finder or your desktop works, too.
The Paint and Erase tools have been redesigned, moving presets into the Tool Options pane, highlighting individual brushes, and freeing up more editing space for your images.
The Slice tool has also got itself a makeover, incorporating its presets into the Tool Options pane.
The template chooser now includes a Devices category with iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, and other screen sizes.
Significantly improved performance when editing images with a large number of layers.
The Pixelmator Pro file format has been optimized to reduce file sizes.
Gradients and layer styles from the original Pixelmator can now be imported into Pixelmator Pro.
Items in the Info bar are now double-clickable, so you can quickly change the size, color profile, color depth of your image or choose the Arrange tool.
The Option-Command-F keyboard shortcut will now apply the Color Fill effect.
The Control-H keyboard shortcut now toggles layer visibility.
The Option-L keyboard shortcut now shows or hides the Layers sidebar.
ML Fix has been renamed to ML and its appearance has been updated (to match Pixelmator Photo).
A new Image menu is now available in the menu bar, containing commands like Image Size, Canvas Size, Color Depth, and more.
When using the Repair or Clone tools, the Sample All Layers setting will now be disabled when a layer has effects, adjustments, or styles as this produces unexpected results.
Pixelmator Pro presets in Automator will now update as soon as they are changed in Pixelmator Pro without having to quit the app.
When exporting to PDF, you can change the color profile of the exported image in the Export dialog. Fixes
PNG, TIFF, and JPEG images over 16000x16000 pixels in size were being opened empty. Fixed.
Pressing and holding the Shift and Command keys while using the Free Transform tool would not highlight the Skew button. Fixed.
Pressing and holding the Option, Command, and Shift keys while using the Free Transform tool would not highlight the Perspective button. Fixed.
The Cancel button was not working in the progress dialog that appears when opening images. Fixed.
Colors in the Touch Bar were not being matched to the document color space. Fixed.
Improved compatibility with future versions of macOS.

Note: Pixelmator Pro documents saved in version 1.4 are not compatible with previous versions of Pixelmator Pro.

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After playing with Pixelmator Pro for two days, I can honestly say it is not a big improvement compared to Pixelmator. Don't get me wrong Pixelmator Pro is good. Still, it's not necessarily better than Pixelmator and worth “upgrading”. Hear me out: For example the new UI works against the user all the time. To keep the UI simple, many things are kept well hidden. For example sharing a saved an user preset needs the knowledge to drag it out of Pixcelmator Pro window. Struggling with the UI is also to be blamed on the icons. Icons are too small and sadly colored greyish and thin lined. I have good eyes, still I have to watch very closely what the icons represents. Yes, if you wait 2 seconds the names are shown. This feels funky and not very nice imo. It is very counterproductive for sure. I urge the coders to make this again colorful icons like Pixelmator or at least more bright/outstanding from the black background. That would be a big improvement. Some icons have a small triangle in the bottom right corner. Clicking on that tiny triangle is troublesome at times. The mouse pointer needs to be firmly onto the small pixel sized triangle to see the menu with additional tools. It is really frustrating to handle. Maybe a right click on the whole icon would work much better. And that is the main problem with Pixelmator Pro, everything needs to be explorer with trial and error to find out if it works (or not). Another thing I don't like is the Original button. Good idea but it doesn't work nicely when you are using a trackpad. You need to click and hold the button which is more difficult to do with a trackpad. This is purely useful when you are using a (magic)mouse. Of course, ones you get customized with all features and the new UI, things will smooth out a bit. Still, a good UI should be easy and intuitive to use not by exploration. Certainly not the strongest part of Pixelmator Pro. The big deal with this new version is having everything packed into one window. This may seem clean to work with but again it can be counterproductive too. For example you cannot compare and work two or more images on one screen. With Pixelmator you can open several images and display them at the same time. I really miss this in Pixelmator Pro! Maybe a feature like Affinity Photo to put them side-by-side could help. Sizable left and right panes cover the image at times and can be distracting to say the least, even if they are semitransparent. Yes, floating windows can also clutter up screen estate, but at least you can move them around. But I do understand some users may dislike this way of working and prefer one window. As I already pointed out, Pixelmator Pro isn't better than Pixelmator. This also applies to all available tools. There aren't much new tool s to be found. it is mostly the same stuff. My conclusion: Pixelmator Pro isn't .. well .. Pro. If I think 'Pro' regarding image editing, I think PhotoShop-a-like apps like Affinity Photo. The latter supports way more professional tools, extended layering possibilities, scalable history overview and PS plugins. For sure Pixelmator Pro is a good buy when you do not own Pixelmator yet. It does fit the bill for simple image editing, that’s it. If you already own Pixelmator, I am not sure $59,99 is worth it.

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