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 1.0.9:

• Shapes made up of multiple internal paths, such as certain letters converted into shapes, could not be made editable. Fixed.
• The performance of the color adjustments has been improved - some adjustments should now be up to four times faster.
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to paint or erase straight lines by Shift-clicking.
• Certain advanced Typography features, such as ligatures and alternate glyphs, were not fully supported. They are now.
• The histogram and sliders of the Colors adjustment are now more accurate - to check out the changes, hold down the Option key to extend the range of the Hue and Brightness sliders.
• Layers duplicated by dragging while pressing and holding the Option key were not immediately snapping to other layers. Fixed.
• Undoing a color profile change in an image with color adjustments was not working correctly. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly when deleting points from a path. Fixed.
• Attempting to cut part of a shape, some text, or a layer group using the shortcut menu in the Layers sidebar would cause the image to be displayed incorrectly - cutting these layers is not possible, so this option is now dimmed.

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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