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Almost every element of the user interface, from the toolbar to every single menu and switch, was updated and refined.

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The version 2 update in 2020 offered a fully customizable and refreshed user interface. The developers are alert and over the years have added many requested features that were not initially there when it was first released in 2017. Rather than getting a major update every year or so, Pixelmator Pro tends to release regular updates that add a few new features every few months. For example, if you want to put text on a sign in a photo, you can’t fill in a temporary text, position and change the perspective of it so that it appears to be in the same plane as the sign, and then change the text. As soon as you change the perspective, it is rendered and becomes pixels. They can be changed or removed at any time on a per-layer basis.īut that does not apply to everything, for example not a change of perspective. This is also the case in competing programs, but more annoying for those who work with text in images is that Pixelmator Pro, unlike both Photoshop and Affinity Photo, cannot retain editable text when you change the perspective of the text.

Most of the editing you do in Pixelmator Pro is non-destructive, that is, if you regret it later you won’t have to go back to that particular step. For example, when you edit aspects such as exposure or saturation or add an effect like a vignette, the changes aren’t burned into the image’s pixels. To make it clear which control point belongs to which effect, virtual threads connect them.

There are precise tools for selecting objects and colours, and both preset and customizable brush styles, all of which are neatly arranged in a palette that runs down the right-hand side of the main editing window. In a narrow column on the right are the tools. Pixelmator Pro presents an effectively clean and sparse experience, keeping your focus on the image. You can create both raster (bitmap) and vector layers. Over on the left you’ll find the Layers palette, which is key to using many of the app’s more powerful features. This could be good or bad: If you have Photoshop’s shortcuts and workflows in your muscle memory, it can take a long time to relearn, and when a feature is missing, it can be frustrating. On the other hand, it means that Pixelmator gets rid of 30 years of baggage and can think in new ways. Pixelmator Pro sticks to the most important features and doesn’t try to recreate exactly every Photoshop feature. Instead of four different ways of doing one thing, you get the best/easiest. And everything that is important for most people is there: Layers with layer masks, blending modes, adjustment layers, tools for drawing and painting, auto exposure, distortion and so on. The interface won’t immediately be familiar if you are used to Photoshop.

And, just to confuse things further, Pixelmator Team recently launched an entirely new photo-editing app called Photomator that runs on Macs, iPhone and iPad. And, on the mobile side, the iPhone and iPad versions of the app have merged into a single app that is simply called Pixelmator.

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The older Pixelmator Classic for Mac now seems to have been discontinued, leaving just Pixemator Pro on the Mac. It’s a little tricky keeping track of the Pixelmator range as the developers at Pixelmator Team have a tendency to keep changing the name, and also producing multiple versions of the app for Macs, iPhone and iPad.

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Pixelmator Pro can also be used to edit video and create professional layouts. But over the years it has evolved so it it no longer only an alternative to Photoshop. Pixelmator Pro is a popular and affordable alternative to Adobe’s Photoshop – not least because it’s available as a one-time purchase that doesn’t require a monthly subscription like Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps.

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