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.

Version 1.1.1:

• The new Export for Web feature gives you a modern way to easily prepare your images for the web.
• Automatically perfect the colors of your photos with three machine learning-powered Auto Color Adjustments.
• Get quick access to all your Pixelmator Pro tools with support for the MacBook Pro Touch Bar.
• Advanced Compression lets you shrink image sizes to the maximum without affecting quality.
• The new Slice tool lets you divide designs into individual images and optimize each one separately. 
• Use Quick Export to quickly export images optimized with your most used settings.
• Export Presets let you save your favorite export settings to speed up exporting images.
• Thanks to SVG support, you can now open, edit, and export resolution-independent vector images.
• Export images in the modern High Efficiency Image File Format.
• See handy live previews when formatting text and adjusting layer blending.
• Use Select Color Range to select precise colors or entire color ranges.
• Learn all about using Pixelmator Pro with easy to follow video and text tutorials on the new Tutorials

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Improvements and Fixes:

• You can now expand grouped tools by Force clicking a group or clicking and holding it.
• Export suffixes will now be saved with export presets.
• SVG images will be exported with more efficient compression. 
• When exporting to SVG, shapes with center stroke outlines would be exported with square corners, instead of the rounded ones in Pixelmator Pro. Fixed.
• Scrolling the font size field would create undo steps for each intermediate size. Now, undo steps will be created only for the sizes you stop on.
• When using the Slice tool, selecting an object slice will now select the associated layer in the Layers sidebar and vice versa. 
• The brush cursor would not update when using a Retouch or Distort tool and changing the brush size in the Touch Bar. Fixed.
• When using the Color, Image, and Gradient fill effects, the selected blending mode would not have a checkmark next to it in the blending mode pop-up menu. Fixed.
• After resetting the style of a shape, the next shape will be drawn with the default style.
• Performance when resizing layers with gradients fills or strokes has been improved.
• The progress bar will no longer be shown when using drag and drop to export one slice with one format if an optimized version has already been prepared.
• When switching to the Paint tool, the brush cursor would flicker if the current size of the brush was different from the size saved in the preset. Fixed.
• The effect handle position of the Focus and Tilt-Shift effects would not update after undoing. Fixed.
• If part of a text layer was beyond the canvas, converting it into pixels would sometimes change its position. Fixed.
• When using Wacom graphics tablets to edit gradient color stops, it would be very difficult to change colors. Fixed.
• When creating a new document from a layer, the layer will be placed so that any layer styles appear inside the canvas. 
• Attempting to export a slice with a very long name would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• On very rare occasions, exporting an image for the web in the PNG format with reduced colors would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.

I'm very impressed with this software. I've paid thousands of dollars to Adobe over the years and can't stomach their monthly subscription. The last version of Creative Suite I bought won't run on my new MacBook , so I'll be using Pixelmator Pro from now on. Sure, there are some niggles, but this is a very promising 1.0 release. It already does pretty much everything I need it to do and at 60 dollars it's great value for money.

I tested the trial a bit with some Nikon D800 RAW files. Opening of these files was really slow. The editing tools for RAW files are very limited compared to Adobe Lightroom. It's also not possible to use gradient selections and a lot of other features without first converting the RAW file to the proprietary bitmap format of Pixelmator. Almost all tools I saw in the Pro version are already part of the regular Pixelmator version, including the same limitations. They are only presented in nicer one window view.

So I get the feeling this new app is extremely overhyped and not really a replacement for Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop. And that's really pity, because I don't like Adobe subscription model and how they mess up app installations on the Mac. I would like to believe Pixelmator Pro is a competent professional editor, but that's unfortunately totally not the case in my opinion.

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