3.4.3
2023-10-11
Pixelmator Pro 3.4.3 fixes an issue where the opacity of gradient color stops could not be set to 0%.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.4.2
2023-10-04
Pixelmator Pro 3.4.2 adds an all-new Basic templates collection, brings improvements to the Denoise tool, and adds a few smaller improvements and fixes.
• Create custom designs even faster with 26 new templates featuring layouts that are commonly used in social media, web, and print.
• Easily customize templates and enjoy smart features like automatic outlines around subjects in YouTube thumbnails.
• Remove even more types of noise from images with a 2x smarter noise analysis algorithm.
• Import layered PDFs with added support for Separation color space.
• Open layered PDFs that contain image layers with 1-bit color depth.
• Import PDFs faster and smoother thanks to significant improvements to the import stability.
• Choosing the Select and Mask option when working with text layers would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.4.1
2023-09-14
Pixelmator Pro 3.4.1 adds 3 new stunning mockups for iPhone 15 Pro. This update also fixes an issue of drag and drop not working when dragging layers from Pixelmator Pro to the Mail app.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.4
2023-09-11
Pixelmator Pro 3.4 Camelot introduces a completely revamped PDF engine that now lets you select and open individual pages from multi-page PDF documents, work with vector PDFs, edit PDFs created using Safari, Keynote, and other iWork apps, and more.
Open Selected PDF Pages
• Enjoy advanced PDF editing thanks to a completely redesigned, and now even more powerful PDF engine.
• Use the simple new PDF import dialog to browse pages in multi-page PDFs and select the one you want to edit.
• Easily set the resolution and size of the PDF page you're importing.
• Choose to import vector PDFs with shape and image elements as layers, or import them with all layers merged.
• Note that this feature works on macOS 12 and later.
Edit PDF Layers
• Pixelmator Pro now supports vector PDFs, letting you easily edit, rearrange, and delete individual elements, like images and shapes, in PDF documents.
• Open PDFs with images, shapes, paths, masks, and even more complex layer properties like blend modes and opacity.
• Change the size of vector PDFs without losing quality thanks to resolution-independent scaling.
• Create new vector PDFs and export them with all layers intact to share with others or use in other apps.
Work with Apple PDFs
• Seamlessly open PDF documents created using Safari, Keynote, Pages, and other iWork apps with layers.
• Enjoy incredible precision when importing Apple PDFs. The documents will look exactly how they did in the original app.
• Edit individual vector elements, images, and masks in Apple PDFs using all your favorite Pixelmator Pro tools.
Convert to PDF with Shortcuts
• Convert multiple Pixelmator Pro documents or other files to PDF using the updated Convert Image/Video action in the Shortcuts app.
• Convert files to vector PDFs or choose to merge all layers using the new Preserve Layers setting.
• Seamlessly use the Convert Image/Video with native macOS actions like Make PDF or Split PDF into Pages.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.13
2023-08-29
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.13 adds a new collection of vibrant, food blogging-inspired templates for social media and print. The update also includes a few smaller fixes, such as improved scrolling behavior, and more.
• Discover the new Tasty Tales templates collection designed for bloggers, small businesses, and other food culture enthusiasts.
• In the collection, find 28 gorgeous templates for designing posters, cards, social media posts, stories, YouTube video thumbnails, and more.
• The templates in the collection include 26 beautiful illustrations, including fruits and vegetables, each created by a professional artist.
• Enjoy easily customizable designs — switch between different template layouts, choose from alternative document color palettes, and more.
• When turning the visibility of layers on or off using the checkbox in the Layers sidebar, it would be easy to accidentally move the scroll bar instead. Fixed.
• Some areas in Pixelmator Pro would be missing translations. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.12
2023-08-21
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.12 now opens faster, improves PDF export, and adds a few other smaller improvements and fixes.
• Pixelmator Pro will now open 20% faster compared to previous versions.
• Improved the compatibility of exported PDFs with certain websites, such as staples.ca.
• Added new clarity and texture properties to AppleScript, allowing you to change the clarity and texture of a layer.
• Added improvements to ensure Pixelmator Pro runs faster and smoother.
• Left bracket [ and right bracket ] keyboard shortcuts would not work correctly on some keyboard layouts. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.11
2023-07-28
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.11 is a smaller update that adds a new Support submenu in the Help menu to make it easier to report issues and share diagnostic files with us.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.10
2023-07-26
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.10 adds the ability to import LUTs as color adjustment presets and import entire LUT folders. This update also fixes an issue where the capture date of compressed Fujifilm RAWs would not be preserved after import, and adds a few other stability improvements and fixes.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.9
2023-07-21
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.9 introduces significant improvements to the Denoise tool, which now lets users adjust the amount of noise they want to remove from their images. The update also brings support for compressed Fujifilm camera RAWs, including RAW photos from the brand-new X-S20 model.
Denoise Improvements
• Enjoy an updated Denoise tool, bringing quality improvements for artifact-free noise removal.
• Use the new Denoise Intensity slider to adjust the amount of noise in an image. Lower the intensity to preserve more details, or increase it to make the image smoother.
• You can also adjust the intensity of noise reduction in an image by entering a specific value.
• The Denoise action in AppleScript and Shortcuts now has the option for adjusting intensity.
RAW Support Improvements
• You can now open and edit compressed RAWs from Fujifilm cameras, including the highly-requested X-T4, X-T5 models, and more.
• Compressed and uncompressed RAWs from the brand-new Fujifilm X-S20 model are now also supported on macOS 13.
• Thanks to the extended RAW support, thumbnails of compressed Fujifilm RAWs will now be visible when browsing photos in the Pixelmator Pro photo browser.
• View the lens model, aperture, and other camera metadata of the compressed Fujifilm RAWs in the Pixelmator Pro Info pane, or right in the Color Adjustments pane when adjusting colors.
• Open and edit compressed Fujifilm RAWs in Photos using the Pixelmator Pro extension.
• Compressed Fujifilm RAWs are now also fully supported in Photomator, letting you work seamlessly in Photomator and Pixelmator Pro.
• Pixelmator Pro will now show an alert when attempting to open RAW photos from unsupported camera models.
Other Improvements
• The Crop tool has been improved with a much more precise Straighten slider that lets you straighten images in 0.01-degree increments.
• Clicking the icons at each end of the Straighten slider will now rotate the image at a 0.1-degree angle, or 1-degree angle when Shift-clicking.
• The Decontaminate Colors feature has been improved to better preserve details when decontaminating colors at object edges.
• Enjoy much-improved support for PDF export.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.8
2023-06-23
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.8 adds all-new Frequency Separation and Low Pass effects, improves performance, and adds a few other improvements and fixes.
• Easily smooth out fine details or remove noise in images with the Low Pass effect.
• Use the new Frequency Separation effect to adjust fine details and overall tones in images separately.
• Enjoy faster and smoother editing thanks to performance optimizations.
• It would not be possible to import custom LUTs if Final Cut Pro was installed on the same device. Fixed.
Fixes in Version 3.3.8
• In some cases, unwanted artifacts would appear in images after exporting them to a custom size. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.6
2023-06-01
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.6 adds 12 beautiful new templates and mockups for posters, billboards, book and vynil record covers, improves support for text layers in PSD files, including layers with text on a path, and adds a few other minor fixes.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
3.3.5
2023-05-20
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.3 adds support for the all-new Photomator for Mac, improves Photomator document opening, and brings important color adjustment improvements.
• Pixelmator Pro now supports a powerful new app for photography workflows — Photomator for Mac — created by the Pixelmator Team.
• You can now open Photomator documents in Pixelmator Pro with all nondestructive edits like color adjustments, crop, masks, and more, by directly sharing them from Photomator.
• Both Photomator and Pixelmator Pro also integrate seamlessly with Photos, so when you edit photos in Photomator, the changes instantly sync to the photo browser in Pixelmator Pro and the Pixelmator Pro extension in Photos.
• To save changes back to Photomator, choose File > Modify Original in Photos.
• Color adjustments have been optimized to work even faster and smoother.
• Improved color adjustment layers to better handle dynamic range in images.
Improvements in version 3.3.5
• Added optimizations to improve Pixelmator Pro compatibility with Photomator.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at support@pixelmator.com!
1.6.3
2020-05-18
Pixelmator Pro 1.6.3 adds a few smaller improvements and fixes.
• Layers created using the Copy and Paste as Layer or Cut and Paste as Layer commands will now have the same opacity and blending settings as the original layers.
• The default images for the Image and Pattern fill effects have been updated.
• Performance when making complex selection paths has been improved.
• Text layers in Pixelmator Pro documents created with versions prior to 1.6 would have incorrect sizes. Fixed.
• The appearance of the marching ants (which indicate an active selection) would sometimes be incorrect. Fixed.
• When exporting to PSD, horizontal and vertical line shapes will now be saved as such.
• Documents with empty layer names would not be correctly exported to PSD format. Fixed.
• Transforming group layers containing completely empty layers would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear from you at support@pixelmator.com!
1.6
2020-03-30
Pixelmator Pro 1.6 Magenta brings an all-new, beautiful, and easy-to-use color picker, includes the ability to quickly choose colors using hex color codes, makes it possible to select multiple objects by dragging over them, improves performance, and brings a whole lot more.
New Features
• The all-new color picker lets you choose and manage colors more easily than ever.
• Quickly choose colors using hex color codes right in the new color picker.
• Choose colors using RGB color codes, too.
• See a list of your most recently picked colors to more easily reuse them.
• Easily pick a series of colors from your image, view color codes, and closest color names using the new Color Picker tool.
• Save color swatches to custom color palettes and even share Pixelmator Pro color palettes with others.
• View RGB color codes right in the Info bar.
• Drag over multiple different layers to easily select them.
• Identify and replace any missing fonts in an image using the new Replace Fonts feature.
• See your most recently used fonts at the top of the font pop-up menu.
• Enjoy much-improved selection, guide, grid, and layer handle performance thanks to a new Metal-powered overlay.
Improvements and Fixes
• With any shape tool selected, shapes will now always be drawn immediately, even on top of other existing shapes to make it easier to create illustrations.
• To temporarily select or move shapes while using any shape tool, you can now press and hold the Command key.
• If you Control-click the points of a shape, you’ll now be able to divide and join individual paths.
• When using the Arrange tool or one of the shape tools and having a shape layer selected, pressing the Enter key will start editing the shape.
• When opening large Pixelmator Pro documents, a thumbnail of the image will now be displayed in the progress dialog.
• ML Denoise and ML Super Resolution will now use up to 10 times less memory.
• Locked layers will no longer be automatically selected on the canvas.
• Stroke performance has been significantly improved and layer strokes are now at least 10x faster.
• Text layers can now have Inside and Outside strokes along with the current Center stroke.
• The appearance of strokes has been improved for rotated and transformed images.
• The quality of strokes of text layers converted into pixels has also been improved.
• You can now show or hide the overlay (which includes the selection outline, guides, grid, layer handles) using the Shift-Command-H keyboard shortcut.
• The Hide Interface command will now be activated using the Control-Command-H keyboard shortcut.
• You can now insert a new image layer from your Mac using the Option-Shift-Command-N keyboard shortcut.
• When saving changes directly to JPEG, PNG, and TIFF images, Overwrite will now be the default option.
• After changing the style of line shapes, it will now be remembered for future line shapes you draw, just like regular shapes.
• Empty layers will have ‘---’ as their size, position, and angle.
• The blending mode and opacity of locked layers would not be displayed correctly. Fixed.
• Certain effects (such as Perspective Transform) would not be converted into pixels correctly. Fixed.
• Cutting part of a layer and undoing the changes would sometimes cause graphical glitches. Fixed.
• Processing a large number of files using the Pixelmator Pro actions in Automator would sometimes increase memory usage more than necessary. Fixed.
• When copying and pasting between documents, some layers would not be placed correctly and it would sometimes cause blurring. Fixed.
• When exporting to PSD, layer masks would not be preserved. Fixed.
• When exporting to PSD, hidden layers would be saved without any content. Fixed.
• Changing the size of a brush in the internal settings of a brush preset could cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear from you at support@pixelmator.com!
1.5.5
2020-02-11
Pixelmator Pro 1.5.5 brings big improvements to ML Super Resolution and ML Denoise and includes a number of additional improvements and fixes.
• ML Super Resolution has been improved and is now better at upscaling very compressed images, keeping edges even sharper, preserving small color details, and upscaling faces and portrait photos.
• ML Denoise has been significantly improved, bringing much better strong noise removal and noise removal in RAW photos.
• Two new Pixelmator Pro actions are available in Automator – Increase Resolution of Images, which increases the resolution of images by 3 times using ML Super Resolution, and Denoise Images, which automatically removes camera noise using our ML Denoise algorithm.
• After changing the size of an image (or using ML Super Resolution), the visible part of the canvas will be preserved.
• The maximum range of the Sharpen color adjustment has been extended to 100 pixels.
• Because it was prone to causing confusion, resizing images using the Bilinear algorithm will be destructive, just like the other algorithms are.
• For those of you who’d rather invert the Option-scrolling zoom direction, you can use the following Terminal command to do so:
defaults write com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x scrollToZoomDirectionInverted -bool true
• The Quick Selection tool will now be selected as the default tool in the Quick Selection/Color Selection group for new users.
• After upscaling images using ML Super Resolution, certain pixels would become very slightly transparent. Fixed.
• The Add Sketch command would create a new document rather than insert the sketch into the existing document. Fixed.
• Selecting part of an image, deleting the selected area, undoing the edits, and repeating the same steps again would result in the layer disappearing. Fixed.
• After choosing Hide Tab Bar or Hide Interface, the layout of the document title would be incorrect. Fixed.
• When using the shortcut menu in the Layers sidebar while the Pixelmator Pro window doesn’t have focus, certain commands would not work. Fixed.
• Using File > New > Clipboard would sometimes result in Pixelmator Pro quitting unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Attempting to export layers that have only numbers in their name using the Export for Web tool would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Sometimes, editing shape layers within groups would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com!
1.5.4
2019-12-17
Pixelmator Pro 1.5.4 brings the incredible new ML Super Resolution, which lets you increase the resolution of images using state-of-the-art machine learning, improves ML Denoise, and features a few additional fixes.
• The new ML Super Resolution feature lets you increase the resolution of images without blurriness or reduced quality using state-of-the-art machine learning.
• You can find ML Super Resolution in the Image menu, as an algorithm in Image Size, and as an algorithm in the Transform tool.
• ML Denoise has been significantly improved, bringing between 2 to 4 times more accurate noise analysis and removal.
• The Image Size and Color Depth dialogs now have help buttons, leading you to the relevant help pages.
• Changing the Resolution value in the Image Size dialog will now change the pixel size of an image under all circumstances, rather than only with print units selected.
• Using the painting and retouching tools as a scrolling action was ending would not be possible, now these tools will start working as soon as scrolling stops, no matter when the painting action was started.
• The Style tool’s Show Original button was not working correctly. Fixed.
• Duplicating a selected part of a layer with nondestructive effects applied to it would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com!
1.5.3
2019-12-02
Pixelmator Pro 1.5.3 adds some major performance improvements to Auto Save, includes a new Show Source Marker option for the Clone tool, and brings a few important fixes.
• Auto Save performance has been significantly improved.
• The new Show Source Marker option for the Clone tool lets you show and hide the occasionally inconvenient source marker.
• It was not possible to undo text color changes after selecting text in a text box and using the sliders in the Colors window to change its color with a Force Touch trackpad. Fixed.
• When using Export for Web to export images at 2x and 3x scale factors, shape layers would not be exported correctly. Fixed.
• When using Pixelmator Pro on Mac computers with AMD Navi GPUs — either external ones or internal ones, such as in the new 16-inch MacBook Pro — images would not be rendered correctly. Fixed.
• When applying certain effects to layer masks, Pixelmator Pro would sometimes stop responding. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com!
1.5.2
2019-11-20
Pixelmator Pro 1.5.2 adds a new Vignette color adjustment, some significant performance improvements (yes, performance has been improved again!), improvements to the Clone tool, Pen tool, Freeform Pen tool, Crop tool, and more.
• There’s a new color adjustment: it’s called Vignette and it works like the one in Pixelmator Photo, helping you add artistic vignettes to your photos.
• If a photo has been cropped nondestructively, the new Vignette will be applied to the cropped image.
• Performance in compositions with a large number of layers has been improved again, this time layer moving and editing is up to 10x faster in some cases.
• After reordering, merging, or converting layers and undoing/redoing changes, the selected/unselected state of layers will now be correctly restored. Even though this is more of a bug fix, it’s a very nice one, so we’ll call it an improvement!
• The last used soft proofing profile will be remembered across different documents, so you can now preview a new document with the last used profile by simply pressing the Command-Y keyboard shortcut.
• The Clone tool has been improved with:
– Smaller brush spacing for a much smoother cloning experience.
– A default Softness setting of 50%.
• When cropping, you can now move the crop area using the arrow keys.
• The quality and performance of the Freeform Pen tool have been much improved – fewer vector points will be added to the lines you draw to reflect how vector paths are usually drawn manually.
• When drawing a path with the regular Pen tool, you can now split the direction line of your current anchor point as you add it by pressing and holding the Option key.
• In the middle of drawing a path with the Pen tool, you can now also edit any visible direction lines by Command-dragging to move them, or Option-dragging to split the two sides of a direction line and move each individually. Once you’ve split a direction line, you can rejoin it by Option-dragging it, or move each side separately using the Command key.
• The Replace Color adjustment is now better at replacing black, white, and shades of grey.
• When adjusting gradient fills added with the Style tool, you can now move the position of the gradient by dragging the gradient direction line on the canvas.
• Undoing changes made with the Repair tool will now be faster.
• When using the Free Transform tool and moving an object using the arrow keys, it’s position values in the Tool Options pane would not update. Fixed.
• Using the color picker to change the color of partially selected text in a text layer would not work. Fixed.
• When using the Styles, Effects, or Color Adjustments tools and picking colors with the color picker in the Colors window, undo steps would not be registered. Fixed.
• Type tool presets were not being displayed correctly on macOS 10.13. Fixed.
• When adding effects from the Generator group, layer thumbnails would not be displayed correctly. Fixed.
• The Smart Erase tool was not erasing in all areas of an image. Fixed.
• The appearance of the buttons the Trim Canvas dialog would be incorrect while the dialog was sliding in to appear. Fixed.
• The Sharpen tool was not working correctly at all Zoom levels. Fixed.
• Clicking to add a line shape would place its endpoints between pixels by default. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.5.1
2019-10-25
Pixelmator Pro 1.5.1 adds a new Soft Proof Colors feature so you can quickly view the colors of an image in different color spaces (such as CMYK) and adds a number of additional improvements and fixes.
• Use the new Soft Proof Colors feature to accurately see how an image will look when converted to CMYK colors.
• Turn on Soft Proof Colors in the View menu or using the Command-Y keyboard shortcut.
• When moving or transforming multiple layers, any hidden layers will now also be transformed.
• Optimized memory usage of the ML Denoise feature.
• The Delete key will now clear selections and delete layers just like the Backspace key does.
• Layer style presets with large color spaces now load over 100x faster.
• Reduced the loading speed and memory usage of color adjustment, effect, and layer style data.
• Pixelmator Pro Automator actions are now up to 5x faster when processing large amounts of images.
Fixes
• This update includes fixes for a number of related color management issues, including:
– Numerical RGB values (in the Colors window) changing in different color spaces.
– Colors shifting in SVGs exported from documents with non-sRGB color spaces.
– Issues with keeping the colors of Styles and Effects in sync with the document color space.
– Correctly matching the colors of text layers, layer styles, and effects after changing a document’s color profile.
– Keeping all letters in the same color space when editing text layers.
– Correctly matching colors when pasting layers from documents in different color spaces.
– Correctly matching the colors of effects, color adjustments, and layer styles when pasting between documents in different color spaces.
• Unnecessary undo steps would be registered when switching between documents while editing text in a text layer. Fixed.
• The Black & White, Color Monochrome, and Sepia color adjustments would clip colors when combined with certain other adjustments. Fixed.
• Using Image > Color Depth to convert the color depth of an image was not working correctly. Fixed.
• When pasting long passages of text, it would wrap incorrectly. Fixed.
• Copying and pasting text within Pixelmator Pro would sometimes scale it by 2x. Fixed.
• After dragging and dropping an image from Export for Web, the progress sheet wouldn’t always disappear. Fixed.
• Images with a LAB color space would not open. Fixed.
• PSD files would not work with the ML Match Colors feature. Fixed.
• When cropping images using the Delete mode, Pixelmator Pro would occasionally stop responding. Fixed.
• The My Templates shortcut menu was not working in languages other than English. Fixed.
• In macOS 10.15, documents would sometimes be exported with transparent areas. Fixed.
• The Font pop-up menu would sometimes get stuck and it would not be possible to change fonts. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.5
2019-10-10
Pixelmator Pro 1.5 Avalon adds full support for macOS Catalina, the new Mac Pro, and Pro Display XDR, brings intelligent, machine-learning powered noise removal, includes big performance improvements, and a whole lot more.
New Features
• Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with macOS Catalina, including support for Sidecar and SF Symbols.
• Take full advantage of the power of the new Mac Pro thanks to multi-GPU support and an optimized Metal architecture in Pixelmator Pro.
• Unlock new RAW editing workflows with the new Pro Display XDR and EDR Mode in Pixelmator Pro to use the full 1600-nit peak brightness of the incredible new display.
• Use the new ML Denoise to intelligently remove noise and even image compression artifacts from photos.
• Enjoy significant performance improvements to zooming and scrolling (at least 10x), effects (up to 3x), and painting (up to 2x).
Improvements
• Zooming and scrolling are now at least 10 times faster thanks to asynchronous rendering. Plus, it’s always responsive, even if the image preview isn’t quite yet ready.
• Zooming is even faster in any Mac with multiple GPUs as any integrated, discrete, and external GPUs will be used to speed it up.
• Effects will now be applied and rendered up to 3 times faster.
• All painting tools (including brush-based retouching tools) are now up to 2 times faster.
• The Color Adjustments, Effects, and Zoom tools now have shortcut menus on the canvas to adjust image zoom and customize viewing.
• For any images without a color profile, the Info bar will now show No Color Profile instead of Device RGB.
• The standard sRGB IEC61966-2.1 color profile will now be shortened to sRGB in the Info bar.
• In the Color Profile pop-up menu, None has been moved to the bottom of the list and any custom color spaces will be shown at the top.
• The Select Color Range tool now makes better selections of dark regions.
• The Free mode in the Free Transform Mode has been renamed to Resize (because that’s what it actually does).
• An alert will now appear when documents cannot be saved due to insufficient permissions.
• An updated version of the Gilbert Color font adds Katakana characters.
Fixes
• Text in SVG files was being displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
• Using the Export command in the File menu would sometimes export smaller than expected images. Fixed.
• Attempting to save documents with very complex selections would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Images with large custom color spaces would be opened incorrectly. Fixed.
• When copying and pasting between documents, certain layers would occasionally be positioned incorrectly. Fixed.
• Occasionally, when painting on layers, they would shift slightly. Fixed.
• When converting rotated vector shapes into pixels, they would sometimes shift slightly. Fixed.
• In some regions, the Color LCD color profile would not be displayed correctly in the Color Profile and Export windows. Fixed.
• When using the Free Selection tool, the cursor would not update when moving it from the Tool Options pane onto the canvas. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, Pixelmator Pro would stop responding or quit unexpectedly when resizing text. Fixed.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.4.1
2019-08-22
Pixelmator Pro 1.4.1 adds a number of smaller improvements and fixes.
• Along with Command-clicking, you can now Control-click and secondary click the document title to see the document path.
• Using the Enter key to select a blending mode from the blending mode pop-up menu would not work. Fixed.
• Dragging and dropping hidden layers to the Finder would export empty images. Fixed.
• Layers created using the Cut and Paste commands would sometimes be positioned incorrectly. Fixed.
• The position of the reshaping tools’ text fields in the Tool Options pane was every so slightly incorrect. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, the Grain effect could cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• In certain cases, when cropping images with masked layers using the Delete mode, Pixelmator Pro could stop responding. Fixed.
Pixelmator Pro Extension Fixes
• When opening photos using the extension, if the associated Pixelmator Pro file is in iCloud Drive, the extension will attempt to download it before opening.
• If the extension cannot save to iCloud Drive, it will try to save to the Pictures folder instead. If that also fails, you will be offered to save the layered file to a custom location.
• The layout of the reshaping tools in the Touch Bar was incorrect. Fixed.
• The keyboard shortcuts for changing the visibility of the Tools sidebar, switching between the Thumbnails and List view in the Layers sidebar, and inverting selections were incorrect. Fixed.
• Failing to open a photo using the extension would cause it to quit unexpectedly. Now, an alert will be shown and the preview of the photo will be opened instead.
• It was previously possible to attempt open the Photos extension while it was still loading, which would cause it to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.4
2019-07-23
Pixelmator Pro 1.4 Hummingbird adds an incredibly powerful Photos extension, transforming your Photos app into an advanced, layer-based image editor, includes an all-new Zoom tool, an improved Crop tool, and a whole lot more.
Incredible Photos Extension
• 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. **
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.3.4
2019-05-14
Pixelmator Pro 1.3.4 brings the incredible ML Match Colors, which intelligently matches the colors of different images using breakthrough machine learning, a Free Transform tool for freely resizing objects, adjusting perspective, skewing, and distorting, and includes a range of additional improvements and fixes.
New Features
• With the incredible ML Match Colors, you can now match the colors of different images using breakthrough machine learning.
• Paste and ML Match Colors lets you intelligently match the colors of pasted objects to the images you’re pasting into.
• The all-new Free Transform tool makes it a breeze to freely resize objects, adjust perspective, distort, skew, and rotate.
Learn More
• Use ML Match Colors by dragging and dropping images onto the Color Adjustments pane.
• Find ML Match Colors in Format > Color Adjustments.
• Find Paste and ML Match Colors in the Edit menu.
• When dragging and dropping objects into compositions, press and hold the Command key to automatically use ML Match Colors on the inserted object.
• Turn on Free Transform by pressing the Command-T or Command-F keyboard shortcuts.
• Transform layers using four different modes — Free, Skew, Distort, and Perspective.
• Choose from 3 unique algorithms — Bilinear, Lanczos, and Nearest Neighbor — when transforming individual layers and layer groups.
• The high-quality perspective transformation algorithms in Pixelmator Pro better preserve image detail compared with other image editors.
• Any layer can be transformed — whether it’s some text, a shape, group, open path layer, or even a RAW layer.
• Use the grid when transforming to guide your transformations or turn it off, if you prefer.
• When transforming, press and hold the Command key and drag any handle to temporarily distort instead of resizing.
• Press and hold the Shift and Command keys together and drag any handle to temporarily skew.
• Press and hold the Option, Shift, and Command keys together and drag any handle to temporarily adjust perspective.
• When resizing, press and hold the Shift key to constrain proportions. Press and hold the Option key to resize from the center.
Improvements
• Automatically center inserted objects by pressing and holding the Shift key while dropping them into your composition.
• Constrain Proportions will now be enabled for RAW layers by default.
• You can now drag and drop colors from one color well to another.
• Force click layer and slice names to start renaming them.
• Improved zoom performance for compositions with a large number of layers.
• When using the Repair tool, its progress indicator will now appear on the canvas rather than below the toolbar.
• When inserting objects, a progress indicator will now appear on the canvas.
• Display P3 has been promoted to a common profile within the color profile list.
Fixes
• When pasting shapes with masks, masks would sometimes be copied incorrectly. Fixed.
• Layers would sometimes flicker when erasing any areas around their edges. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, the Erase tool would stop erasing. Fixed.
• When using the Clone tool, the source indicator would remain visible on RAW layers. Fixed.
• A partially transparent outline of the Open dialog would sometimes remain visible after opening images. Fixed.
• Cropping using custom aspect ratio presets would sometimes be imprecise. Fixed.
• Original Pixelmator documents with non-standard color profiles would be opening with shifted colors. Fixed.
• When creating a selection with multiple layers and using certain nondestructive tools, the Deselect command would not work correctly. Fixed.
• When opening Photoshop documents, PPI settings would not be correctly preserved. Fixed.
• When resizing layer groups with certain effects applied, layers could disappear at specific scales. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.3.3
2019-03-30
Pixelmator Pro 1.3.3 includes a few small fixes to keep Pixelmator Pro running smoothly. A bigger update is just around the corner! Here’s what we added in the previous update:
New Features
• Thanks to Portrait Mask support, Pixelmator Pro will now open photos taken in Portrait mode on iOS 12 together with a layer mask.
• Pixelmator Pro will now always use tabs by default and remember your window size and position for all new documents.
• Use the new Comics effect to quickly apply a comic book-style to any image — you can find this effect in the Stylize category.
• A number of new keyboard shortcuts make it easier to select, organize, and duplicate layers.
• Press the Slash (/) key to quickly lock and unlock layers.
• Option-Left bracket ([) and Option-Right bracket (]) let you select one layer up and down.
• Option-Comma (,) and Option-Period (.) let you select the top and bottom layer.
• Option-Arrow will now duplicate layers and move them by 1 pixel. Option-Shift-Arrow will duplicate and move by 10 pixels.
• Option-clicking a layer’s visibility icon will now hide all other layers.
Improvements
• Zoom performance improvements speed up zooming in documents with many layers.
• Pressing the Return key while drawing a path will now close the path.
• Converting text to shape is now much (much) faster.
• The Repair tool progress bar will no longer be shown when making quick, small repairs.
• The Brightness adjustment is now more precise in images with extreme tonal ranges.
• Previously, the Channel Mixer used our perceptual color model to make prettier adjustments. Since it’s more of a functional adjustment rather than a creative one, it now mixes channels purely mathematically.
• Changing the rulers’ origin will now update the grid to match the new rulers.
• Pressing and holding the Shift key while changing the rulers’ origin will now snap it to the grid and objects in your composition.
• When you add a new, untagged layer to a tagged group, it will be assigned the group’s color tag.
• Attempting to use the Color Fill or Gradient Fill tools on text or shape layers will now create an empty new layer and fill that instead of doing nothing at all.
• Added an Add Guide command to the View menu’s Guides submenu.
• Whenever possible, Pixelmator Pro will try to preserve the font face when changing font family.
• Improved compatibility with certain kinds of text layers in Photoshop documents.
Fixes
• The orientation of masks in Portrait images exported from the Photos app would be incorrect. Fixed.
• Using the arrows in the Arrange tool, it was sometimes possible to resize layers to an invalid size. Fixed.
• Attempting to add effects to extremely tall and narrow layers would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.3.2
2019-02-18
Pixelmator Pro 1.3.2 includes a fix for an issue that caused the Photo Browser to be empty when using a newly installed version of Pixelmator Pro on macOS Mojave . Here’s what we added in the last Pixelmator Pro update:
New Features
• Thanks to Portrait Mask support, Pixelmator Pro will now open photos taken in Portrait mode on iOS 12 together with a layer mask.
• Pixelmator Pro will now always use tabs by default and remember your window size and position for all new documents.
• Use the new Comics effect to quickly apply a comic book-style to any image — you can find this effect in the Stylize category.
• A number of new keyboard shortcuts make it easier to select, organize, and duplicate layers.
• Press the Slash (/) key to quickly lock and unlock layers.
• Option-Left bracket ([) and Option-Right bracket (]) let you select one layer up and down.
• Option-Comma (,) and Option-Period (.) let you select the top and bottom layer.
• Option-Arrow will now duplicate layers and move them by 1 pixel. Option-Shift-Arrow will duplicate and move by 10 pixels.
• Option-clicking a layer’s visibility icon will now hide all other layers.
Improvements
• Zoom performance improvements speed up zooming in documents with many layers.
• Pressing the Return key while drawing a path will now close the path.
• Converting text to shape is now much (much) faster.
• The Repair tool progress bar will no longer be shown when making quick, small repairs.
• The Brightness adjustment is now more precise in images with extreme tonal ranges.
• Previously, the Channel Mixer used our perceptual color model to make prettier adjustments. Since it’s more of a functional adjustment rather than a creative one, it now mixes channels purely mathematically.
• Changing the rulers’ origin will now update the grid to match the new rulers.
• Pressing and holding the Shift key while changing the rulers’ origin will now snap it to the grid and objects in your composition.
• When you add a new, untagged layer to a tagged group, it will be assigned the group’s color tag.
• Attempting to use the Color Fill or Gradient Fill tools on text or shape layers will now create an empty new layer and fill that instead of doing nothing at all.
• Added an Add Guide command to the View menu’s Guides submenu.
• Whenever possible, Pixelmator Pro will try to preserve the font face when changing font family.
• Improved compatibility with certain kinds of text layers in Photoshop documents.
Fixes
• The orientation of masks in Portrait images exported from the Photos app would be incorrect. Fixed.
• Using the arrows in the Arrange tool, it was sometimes possible to resize layers to an invalid size. Fixed.
• Attempting to add effects to extremely tall and narrow layers would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.3.1
2019-02-13
Pixelmator Pro 1.3.1 adds support for Portrait Masks, brings a new Comics effect, includes a number of new keyboard shortcuts, and more.
New Features
• Thanks to Portrait Mask support, Pixelmator Pro will now open photos taken in Portrait mode on iOS 12 together with a layer mask.
• Pixelmator Pro will now always use tabs by default and remember your window size and position for all new documents.
• Use the new Comics effect to quickly apply a comic book-style to any image — you can find this effect in the Stylize category.
• A number of new keyboard shortcuts make it easier to select, organize, and duplicate layers.
• Press the Slash (/) key to quickly lock and unlock layers.
• Option-Left bracket ([) and Option-Right bracket (]) let you select one layer up and down.
• Option-Comma (,) and Option-Period (.) let you select the top and bottom layer.
• Option-Arrow will now duplicate layers and move them by 1 pixel. Option-Shift-Arrow will duplicate and move by 10 pixels.
• Option-clicking a layer’s visibility icon will now hide all other layers.
Improvements
• Zoom performance improvements speed up zooming in documents with many layers.
• Pressing the Return key while drawing a path will now close the path.
• Converting text to shape is now much (much) faster.
• The Repair tool progress bar will no longer be shown when making quick, small repairs.
• The Brightness adjustment is now more precise in images with extreme tonal ranges.
• Previously, the Channel Mixer used our perceptual color model to make prettier adjustments. Since it’s more of a functional adjustment rather than a creative one, it now mixes channels purely mathematically.
• Changing the rulers’ origin will now update the grid to match the new rulers.
• Pressing and holding the Shift key while changing the rulers’ origin will now snap it to the grid and objects in your composition.
• When you add a new, untagged layer to a tagged group, it will be assigned the group’s color tag.
• Attempting to use the Color Fill or Gradient Fill tools on text or shape layers will now create an empty new layer and fill that instead of doing nothing at all.
• Added an Add Guide command to the View menu’s Guides submenu.
• Whenever possible, Pixelmator Pro will try to preserve the font face when changing font family.
• Improved compatibility with certain kinds of text layers in Photoshop documents.
Fixes
• Pixelmator Pro was performing slowly in the latest version of macOS on certain 2016, 2017, and 2018 Mac computers. This version includes a workaround with a fix.
• Due to new font smoothing introduced in macOS 10.14, fonts were thicker on 10.14 than 10.13. Fixed.
• When dragging & dropping text presets, the preview was incorrect. Fixed.
• Holding the Z key to choose the Zoom tool would make Pixelmator Pro beep inappropriately. It’s now much better behaved.
• Layers would incorrectly snap to grids based on non-pixel units. Fixed.
• New documents created from text or shape layers in the clipboard would not be correctly aligned to the canvas. Fixed.
• After dragging to rearrange parts of text within a text layer, changes would be undone incorrectly. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro workflows in the Automator app were not working correctly when RAW files would be automatically converted to Pixelmator Pro format using the Auto Enhance action. Fixed.
• The colors in the Color Picker preview did not correctly match the document’s colors. Fixed.
• When changing font family, the previous font’s name would sometimes briefly flicker in the menu. Fixed.
• On macOS Mojave, tab titles would sometimes overlap. Fixed.
• On macOS High Sierra, text in the About window was the wrong color. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator for iOS in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.3
2019-01-22
Pixelmator Pro 1.3 Prism introduces a range of handy new features that make creating advanced illustrations and designs easier than ever — layer color tags, filtering and search, clipping masks, quick opacity and blending controls, and much more.
New Features
• Easily color-code layers using handy color tags to make important objects easier to spot or bring some extra organization to advanced illustrations and designs
• With layer filtering and search, finding just the layers you’re looking for is simpler than ever.
• Filter layers according to layer type (images, text, shapes, and groups), color tags, or both.
• Quickly adjust layer opacity and blending mode right in the Layers sidebar.
• Use clipping masks to clip the contents of one layer to the outline of another — even layer groups or nested shapes!
• Add clipping masks from the shortcut menu in the Layers sidebar, by Option-clicking between two layers, or from the Format menu.
• Release a clipping mask by double-clicking the arrow in the Layers sidebar.
• When using the painting, retouching, or reshaping tools on a layer with Color Adjustments, Effects, or Styles, all nondestructive filters will dynamically update to the layer’s new content and won’t be flattened. This one’s big!
Improvements
• It’s now possible to apply Color Adjustments to shape layers.
• When opening Photoshop documents with color tags, they will now be both opened and saved.
• Convert into Pixels is now a fully-fledged rasterize button and will rasterize any layer, including image layers with adjustments, effects, layer styles, and transformations.
• The Refine Selection command has been added to the Edit menu.
• When converting hidden layers into pixels, they will no longer be rasterized into empty layers.
• Double-clicking any shape — including Smart Shapes — will now make it editable.
• Exporting documents with layer styles in effects in Photoshop format has been much improved.
Fixes
• Fixed several blur issues with converting certain kinds of layers (groups and shapes with effects) into pixels.
• Copying and pasting selected content would sometimes result in blurring. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, resizing the crop box while holding the Command key would blur the image or leave 1 pixel-wide lines at its edges. Fixed.
• Documents containing many layers with lots of nondestructive styles and effects would sometimes have unwanted vertical and horizontal artifacts. Fixed.
• The state of the Sample All Layers option would not be remembered when using the Color Fill and Magic Eraser tool. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue with using percentages to set grid spacing.
• Fixed an issue with using drag & drop to rearrange paths in shapes made up of only two paths.
• Several crash fixes improve the stability of Pixelmator Pro.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.2.4
2018-12-06
Pixelmator Pro 1.2.4 features a redesigned Color Balance adjustment, image scaling algorithms, an improved Grain adjustment, two new Automator actions, and more.
New Features
• The Color Balance adjustment has been redesigned and can now be edited using color wheels inspired by those used in the cinema industry to color grade films.
• Along with adjusting the color tints of the shadows, midtones, and highlights, the new Color Balance now includes sliders for adjusting their brightness and saturation as well.
• A Master wheel lets you adjust the Color Balance of an entire image at once.
• Color Balance can also be improved automatically using the ML Fix feature, trained on millions of professional photos.
• When using the Image Size command, you can now choose from three image resizing algorithms — Bilinear, Lanczos, and Nearest Neighbor.
• Bilinear is the standard resizing algorithm, good for most uses.
• Lanczos can preserve small details better when upscaling and downscaling.
• Nearest Neighbor is a popular resizing algorithm for pixel art as it creates a blocky look with sharp edges.
• The Grain adjustment has been improved to apply photographic grain more naturally, especially when an image has small details and large grain particles.
• Use two new Automator actions — Scale Images and Trim Images — to batch resize images and batch delete transparent or solid colored areas from the edges of images.
Improvements
• The last used document size now appears as an option in the template chooser.
• The currently active tool will be marked with a checkmark in the Tools menu.
• Dragging a layer from the Layers sidebar onto the export preview without having created any slices will now create a new slice.
• ML Enhance will now be unhighlighted if an adjustment is removed.
• The look of the Curves adjustment has been improved in macOS Mojave.
• All edited curves will now be visible when editing all channels, not just RGB.
Fixes
• The Trim Canvas command will now work better with thin images.
• Fixed a rare crashing issue with rasterizing text layers.
• Fixed various situations where effects ropes were not in sync with the image.
• The thumbnails of empty masks applied to empty layers would not be visible. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, closing a document would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.2.3
2018-11-26
Pixelmator Pro 1.2.3 brings painting performance improvements, support for Photoshop brushes, and many other improvements and fixes.
Improvements
• You can now import ABR (Photoshop) brushes to Pixelmator Pro.
• The performance of the painting, retouching, and reshaping tools has been improved.
• The maximum brush size has been increased from 1000 to 2500 pixels.
• You can now invert the brush Shape and Grain textures by clicking the word Shape or Grain below the preview and choosing Invert.
• Improved preset importing experience: after importing a collection of brushes, the new collection will become active, after importing some custom shapes, the Shapes palette will become visible, after importing effect or adjustment presets, the Effects and Color Adjustments tools will become active.
• Brush previews will now be generated without slowing down the interface, which should speed up importing collections of large brushes.
• The selected brush preset is now more visible in Dark Mode.
• The performance of the Quick Selection tool on Mac computers with Intel GPUs has been improved.
• When opening images from Aperture, Pixelmator Pro will now attempt to save changes back to the original image.
• The Color Adjustments and Effects tools will now be opened more quickly.
• Added the ability to show the Change Type of Images, Apply Color Adjustments to Images, and Apply Effects to Images interfaces when running those workflows using Quick Actions or Applications.
• Hovering over a gradient color stop and color midpoint will now show its position.
• Adjusting character spacing while having the insertion point between two characters will now change the spacing between those two characters.
• The animation of the ML Enhance button has been improved.
• The look of the text selection background color in macOS Mojave has been improved.
Fixes
• The thumbnails of small layers are now more accurate in the Layers sidebar and Presets bar.
• When selecting an empty layer while the Color Adjustments or Effects tool is active, thumbnails in the Touch Bar would not update correctly. Fixed.
• When a document is opened with a layer group selected, the Arrange tool will now be updated correctly.
• Fixed a number of graphical glitches that would appear while painting, such as vertical and horizontal lines, rendering issues, and parts of brushstrokes not appearing after until after the mouse was released.
• Fixed a memory leak with closing documents that have group layers.
• Improved handling of brush textures — the orientation of the brush texture previews will now be correct.
• Masked areas will now be preserved when exporting images using Export for Web with a non-1x scale.
• Undoing and redoing canvas size changes will no longer shift objects.
• SVG documents over 10MB would not be opened. Fixed.
• When painting quick brushstrokes, the ends of the stroke would sometimes be rendered incorrectly. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly when using certain selection tools.
• Using the Spacebar + Command key keyboard shortcut will no longer make Pixelmator Pro beep.
• Using the Reveal Canvas command would occasionally blur layers in certain situations. Fixed.
• The Crop and Slice buttons would not be highlighted in the toolbar when selected. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly if a document was immediately closed upon opening.
• Closing a document while zooming would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly when opening certain kinds of Photoshop documents. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.2.2
2018-11-06
Pixelmator Pro 1.2.2 includes a fix for an issue that made it possible to purchase Pixelmator Pro on non-Metal devices, which are not supported. Here's what we added in the last major Pixelmator Pro update:
New Features
• Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with macOS Mojave.
• A gorgeous new light appearance lets you experience Pixelmator Pro in a whole new way — change appearance any time in Pixelmator Pro preferences.
• Use ML Enhance to automatically improve the look of any photo using a machine learning algorithm trained on millions of professional photos.
• Batch process images using five powerful Pixelmator Pro actions in the Automator app — Apply Color Adjustments to Images, Apply Effects to Images, Auto Enhance Images, Auto White Balance Images, and Change Type of Images.
• Create even richer, more vibrant graphics and designs with colorful SVG fonts — the Gilbert Color font is included with this update.
• Thanks to support for the Continuity Camera, you can now take pictures using your iPhone and have them instantly appear in the Pixelmator Pro document you’re editing.
Improvements
• The Pixelmator Pro interface has been refined to more closely match the look of macOS in both light and dark mode.
• Accent color support means the buttons and sliders in Pixelmator Pro will now match your preferences.
• You can now change the color of the Pixelmator Pro window background in Pixelmator Pro preferences.
• The Pixel Paint tool now has an Eraser Mode.
Fixes
• After hiding and showing the Pixelmator Pro Tool Options pane, certain buttons would not be updated when using the Arrange tool. Fixed,
• When scrolling inside the brush size text field to resize the retouching and distort tools, the ratio between the brush size and scroll speed was incorrect. Fixed.
• When opening images with no PPI information, the PPI will now be set at 72 by default, rather than 150.
• Closing a document while using the Quick Selection tool would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• The Color Selection tool was not working correctly in all images. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.2.1
2018-10-19
Pixelmator Pro 1.2 Quicksilver adds full support for macOS Mojave, includes a gorgeous new light appearance, Core ML-powered automatic photo enhancement, batch processing via Automator, and more.
New Features
• Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with macOS Mojave.
• A gorgeous new light appearance lets you experience Pixelmator Pro in a whole new way — change appearance any time in Pixelmator Pro preferences.
• Use ML Enhance to automatically improve the look of any photo using a machine learning algorithm trained on millions of professional photos.
• Batch process images using five powerful Pixelmator Pro actions in the Automator app — Apply Color Adjustments to Images, Apply Effects to Images, Auto Enhance Images, Auto White Balance Images, and Change Type of Images.
• Create even richer, more vibrant graphics and designs with colorful SVG fonts — the Gilbert Color font is included with this update.
• Thanks to support for the Continuity Camera, you can now take pictures using your iPhone and have them instantly appear in the Pixelmator Pro document you’re editing.
Improvements
• The Pixelmator Pro interface has been refined to more closely match the look of macOS in both light and dark mode.
• Accent color support means the buttons and sliders in Pixelmator Pro will now match your preferences.
• You can now change the color of the Pixelmator Pro window background in Pixelmator Pro preferences.
• The Pixel Paint tool now has an Eraser Mode.
Fixes
• After hiding and showing the Pixelmator Pro Tool Options pane, certain buttons would not be updated when using the Arrange tool. Fixed,
• When scrolling inside the brush size text field to resize the retouching and distort tools, the ratio between the brush size and scroll speed was incorrect. Fixed.
• When opening images with no PPI information, the PPI will now be set at 72 by default, rather than 150.
• Closing a document while using the Quick Selection tool would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• The Color Selection tool was not working correctly in all images. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.2
2018-10-18
Pixelmator Pro 1.2 Quicksilver adds full support for macOS Mojave, includes a gorgeous new light appearance, Core ML-powered automatic photo enhancement, batch processing via Automator, and more.
New Features
• Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with macOS Mojave.
• A gorgeous new light appearance lets you experience Pixelmator Pro in a whole new way — change appearance any time in Pixelmator Pro preferences.
• Use ML Enhance to automatically improve the look of any photo using a machine learning algorithm trained on millions of professional photos.
• Batch process images using five powerful Pixelmator Pro actions in the Automator app — Apply Color Adjustments to Images, Apply Effects to Images, Auto Enhance Images, Auto White Balance Images, and Change Type of Images.
• Create even richer, more vibrant graphics and designs with colorful SVG fonts — the Gilbert Color font is included with this update.
• Thanks to support for the Continuity Camera, you can now take pictures using your iPhone and have them instantly appear in the Pixelmator Pro document you’re editing.
Improvements
• The Pixelmator Pro interface has been refined to more closely match the look of macOS in both light and dark mode.
• Accent color support means the buttons and sliders in Pixelmator Pro will now match your preferences.
• You can now change the color of the Pixelmator Pro window background in Pixelmator Pro preferences.
• The Pixel Paint tool now has an Eraser Mode.
Fixes
• After hiding and showing the Pixelmator Pro Tool Options pane, certain buttons would not be updated when using the Arrange tool. Fixed,
• When scrolling inside the brush size text field to resize the retouching and distort tools, the ratio between the brush size and scroll speed was incorrect. Fixed.
• When opening images with no PPI information, the PPI will now be set at 72 by default, rather than 150.
• Closing a document while using the Quick Selection tool would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• The Color Selection tool was not working correctly in all images. Fixed.
Have any feedback about the update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We'd love to hear it at support@pixelmator.com!
1.1.5
2018-09-28
Pixelmator Pro 1.1.5 includes a number of improvements that make Pixelmator Pro faster and more responsive and brings preliminary support for macOS Mojave (a major update to Pixelmator Pro with full macOS Mojave support is coming in a few weeks’ time!).
Improvements
• Improved layer movement and editing performance. You should now be able to select, move, and start editing layers in complex documents much more quickly.
• Improved document opening performance. Large and complex documents should now be opened much faster — in some cases over 10 times faster.
• The performance of the Quick Selection tool has been improved by 20%.
• The cursor of the Paint, Erase, and Pixel Paint tools will now be displayed as a crosshair if it is smaller than 2 pt on the screen (based on your zoom level).
• All fonts will now be displayed in the Type tool’s font pop-up menu instead of just the ones optimized for your current region.
• Guides can now be moved while using the Type and shape tools.
• There is now a Guides submenu in the View menu with options to clear and lock persistent guides as well as customize alignment guides.
• The range of the Spin, Box, Disc, and Motion blur effects has been extended — hold down the Option key and drag the Amount/Radius sliders to blur layers even more.
• When applying effects, such as False Color, Clouds, and Checkerboard, which fill areas with color, you can now adjust the opacity of each color (in the Colors window).
• The Invert color adjustment now inverts colors mathematically rather than perceptually, just like the Invert effect does.
• When using the Crop tool, the cropping box will now be drawn over your entire image, not the area on which you are currently zoomed in.
Fixes
• When opening the Photo Browser, the Photos library would occasionally not load the first time. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue with hue-adjusting (Hue, Select Color, Color Balance) color adjustments applied to layer masks.
• Fixed an issue with using the Gradient Fill tool on layer masks with blending modes other than Normal.
• Fixed an issue with applying color adjustments on empty masks — after applying the Invert adjustment, for example, it would not be immediately rendered in the image.
• Resetting certain effects, such as Perspective Transform, Pinch, and others, would not redraw the entire image correctly. Fixed.
• Dragging and dropping layers with masks from one document into another would not preserve the position of the mask. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue with undoing an image size change after selecting and transforming part of an image layer.
• Undoing an image size change while being fully zoomed out would make it impossible to change the zoom level. Fixed.
• Undoing an image size change in documents with text would sometimes break the layout of the text. Fixed.
• When using the Crop tool in images containing areas beyond the canvas, those areas would not be displayed correctly. Fixed.
• Writing and deleting text with the Stroke layer style applied would temporarily leave parts of the deleted text in the image. Fixed.
• When performing many repeated actions in a row, thumbnails would not always update immediately. Fixed.
• Added a few fixes related to SVG rendering during import and export.
• Fixed an issue with using the Retouch and Paint tools in large documents that would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly.
• Fixed an issue with infinite memory allocation when applying effects to horizontal and vertical line shapes.
• Less memory will be used for the undo history of the paint, distort, and retouching tools.
• Opening the font family and font face pop-up menus in the Type tool would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly if certain system fonts were disabled. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly while closing a document.
Think you've found a bug? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it ASAP!
1.1.4
2018-09-06
Pixelmator Pro 1.1.4 brings a bunch of gorgeous (and useful!) new effects, an ML-powered Auto Selective Color adjustment, a wide range of smaller new features and improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes and stability improvements. This little update is pretty big!
New Features
• Use the beautiful Light Leak effect to easily add a sunny, old school feel to any photo.
• Apply the stylish Bokeh effect to emulate the look of artistic camera blurs.
• The new Spin blur effect gives you a quick way to create a circular motion effect.
• Create digital noise in your images using the new Noise effect.
• More new effects — Threshold, Mask to Alpha, Clouds and a number of different Tile and Distort effects from the original Pixelmator.
• The Selective Color adjustment can now be applied automatically to improve image colors using machine learning.
• Change the histogram type when using the Colors Adjustments tool by Control-clicking the histogram and choosing a new type.
Improvements
• The Auto White Balance and Auto Lightness adjustments have been improved — they preserve skin tones better and are also 30% faster.
• Added a keyboard shortcut (the O key) for the Show Original button in the Color Adjustments, Effects, and Styles tools.
• The Color Adjustments submenu now has Copy, Paste, Reset, and Flatten Adjustments options.
• The Effects submenu now has Copy, Paste, Reset, and Flatten Effects options.
• You can now add, copy, paste, reset, and flatten layer styles from the Format menu.
• With a number of new effects, we’ve tidied up the Effects submenu by splitting it up into categories.
• When rotating effect ropes, you can now hold down the Shift key to snap them to 45 degree intervals.
• Each of the copy, paste, reset, and flatten options are now also available when Control-clicking a layer in the Layers sidebar.
• The Arrange tool now has an Auto Select checkbox, letting you turn automatic layer selection on and off.
• When you Control-click a layer in the Layers sidebar, Convert into Shape and Convert into Pixels will now be available as options.
• When you adjust the Levels or Curves of an image and open the adjustment’s pop-up menu, you’ll see which channel — RGB, R, G, B, or Luminance — has been edited.
• When you adjust the Color Balance of an image and open the adjustment’s pop-up menu, you’ll see which portion — the Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights — has been edited.
• You can now drag images from the Image and Pattern fill effects into the Layers sidebar or a Finder window.
• The Touch Bar will now display whether your selected layer is locked or hidden, just like the Tool Options pane does.
• Imported images with no edits will now be closed without asking for confirmation.
• Pixelmator Pro will now automatically detect when new fonts have been installed while the app is open and add them to the font list.
Fixes
• The properties of smart shapes (speech bubbles, arrows) will now be scaled correctly when resizing.
• The Grain adjustment would sometimes spill over outside of a layer after resizing an image. Fixed.
• The interface would sometimes flicker when resetting effects. Fixed.
• The effect rope would not work correctly in restored versions of documents.
• When the Import JPEG, PNG, and TIFF images option was off, PXM files would not be imported correctly. Fixed.
• When activating the Color Picker using the Option key, it would sometimes get stuck. Fixed.
• Layer groups in Photoshop documents will now be imported with Constrain Proportions turned on.
• A few different fixes improve the stability of Pixelmator Pro when opening certain PXD documents.
• Using the Color Selection and Color Fill tools in very small documents would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Opening Photoshop documents with certain layer styles would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
Think you've found a bug? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it ASAP!
1.1.3
2018-08-13
Pixelmator Pro 1.1.3 adds the ability to convert selections into shapes, brings support for opening a few more exotic image formats, and includes a number of bug fixes, performance, and stability improvements.
• You can now convert selections into vector shapes.
• Added support for opening a number of more exotic image formats — EXR, PBM, ICNS, Radiance HDR, texture formats such as PVRTC, ASTC, and KTX.
• Converting speech bubbles with longer tails from shapes into pixels would clip the end of the tails. Fixed.
• When changing the size of an image, using Percent as the unit would not be remembered. Fixed.
• The New Image window would be slow to open with lots of items or a very large image in the clipboard. Fixed.
• When undoing certain actions, layer thumbnails would occasionally not be updated correctly. Fixed.
• When flattening certain effects in the Blur and Tile categories, the new image would shift slightly. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro was a little slow to open on Mac computers with large font libraries. Fixed.
• It was possible to select unsupported image formats with the Image fill effect even though they would not work. Fixed.
• In certain cases, temporarily switching to the Arrange tool while painting would cause the tool to get stuck. Fixed.
• RAW images will now be imported with the PPI set to 300.
• The accuracy of the White Balance, Curves, and Levels color pickers has been improved.
• In wide color images, using the Repair tool and painting on an empty layer with Sample All Layers on would paint with transparency. Fixed.
• When editing multiple Pixelmator Pro documents and choosing Show Info Bar, Show Guides, and Show Grid in one document, those options in the View menu would not update in the other documents. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that caused Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly when opening certain SVG files.
• On rare occasions, painting with Pixelmator Pro for extended periods of time would cause the app to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Clicking the Show Original button when using the Color Adjustments or Effects would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to become unresponsive. Fixed.
• Painting on a layer mask with adjustments and effects applied would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, Pixelmator Pro would stop responding while drawing or editing shapes. Fixed.
• Attempting to open unsupported Photoshop documents would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Attempting to open certain RAW files not supported by macOS would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Attempting to open PXD and PXM files with missing data would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Think you’ve found a bug? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com and we’ll fix it!
1.1.2
2018-07-02
This update adds a few improvements, like the ability to place guides at exact positions, Command-clicking layer thumbnails to load selections, RAW badges in the Pixelmator Pro Photo Browser, and includes a number of bug fixes.
• You can now add alignment guides at exact locations by double-clicking a ruler or Control-clicking and choosing Add Guide.
• While browsing the Pixelmator Pro Photo Browser, RAW images in your Photos library will be marked with a RAW badge.
• The Pixelmator Pro Photo Browser now opens RAW images in the original RAW format by default.
• The New from Photos command in the File menu now has a keyboard shortcut — Option-Command-N.
• Command-clicking the thumbnail of a layer or layer mask will now load the outline of the layer as a selection.
• Shift-clicking the thumbnail of a layer mask will toggle the mask’s visibility.
• The quality and speed of the Auto White Balance, Auto Hue & Saturation, and Auto Lightness adjustments has been improved.
• The Blur radius of the Shadow layer style was twice as large as it should be. Fixed.
• Duplicating a text layer with a layer mask would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that caused the eyedropper in the Colors window to pick colors slightly incorrectly.
• Opening Pixelmator Pro documents using the Open With command in Finder would both open the document and leave the Open dialog visible. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly when opening images. Fixed.
• Painting on a layer inside a layer group with effects applied to the layer group would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Quitting Pixelmator Pro in the middle of applying an Auto Color Adjustment would cause the app to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• On rare occasions, brushes from the original Pixelmator would not be imported into Pixelmator Pro. Fixed.
• Think you’ve found a bug? Let us know at support@pixelmator.com and we’ll fix it!
1.1.1
2018-06-11
Pixelmator Pro 1.1 Monsoon is a massive update that brings a modern way to easily prepare images for the web, machine learning-powered Auto Color Adjustments, Touch Bar support, and a whole lot more.
• 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 page.
Improvements and Fixes in Pixelmator Pro 1.1.1:
• 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.
• Some more fixes that make Pixelmator Pro even better. Read the full release notes at www.pixelmator.com/pro/updates
Think you've found a bug? Please let us know at support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it!
1.1
2018-05-31
Pixelmator Pro 1.1 Monsoon is a massive update that brings a modern way to easily prepare images for the web, machine learning-powered Auto Color Adjustments, Touch Bar support, and a whole lot more.
• 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.
• See handy live previews when formatting text and adjusting layer blending.
• Use Select Color Range to select precise colors or entire color ranges.
• 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.
• Learn all about using Pixelmator Pro with easy to follow video and text tutorials on the new Tutorials page.
Improvements and Fixes
• The Pixelmator Pro Help menu has been improved and now shows search results from the online user guide.
• You can now Control-click a ruler to change its unit.
• When moving guides, their position will now be shown in the current ruler units rather than pixels.
• You can now show or hide each of the buttons in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar.
• When using the Arrange tool, choosing the Reset preset will now reset the rotation of text, shape, and group layers as well as image layers.
• The Gradient Fill layer style now has an angle option.
• You can now change layer opacity using the number keys when using the Style tool.
• When you select a layer in the canvas, the Layers sidebar will scroll to reveal it.
• Pressing and holding the Command key will now let you move layers while using the Free Selection tool.
• When editing individual paths within a shape, the position of any gradient fills will no longer change.
• Moving a selected image area within a group would move the group instead of the selected area. Fixed.
• It was not possible to change a layer’s rotation to below 0 degrees using the arrow buttons in the Arrange tool. Fixed.
• The Pen tool now draws much more precisely, especially when using a Magic Mouse.
• The accuracy of the Quick Selection tool’s live overlay has been improved by 1 to 2 pixels.
• The Reshape tools would not work on images over 4K with MacBook Pro models from 2016 and later.
• Using the Command key to move a layer while using the Paint tool would cause graphical glitches. Fixed.
• Using the Paint tool with the Luminosity blending mode would produce random black pixels. Fixed.
• It was not possible to change the color of single text characters using the Type tool color picker. Fixed.
• Undoing an image size change would not restore layers to their previous positions. Fixed.
• The Auto Contrast and Auto Color options of the Curves and Levels tool now work faster.
• On rare occasions, ungrouping a layer group and undoing would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Refining a selection on a RAW layer would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Simultaneously zooming and undoing would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Switching to the Paint tool while painting a Gradient Fill would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Added a few more fixes to improve the overall stability of Pixelmator Pro.
• A whole bunch of other fixes that make Pixelmator Pro even better. Read the full release notes at www.pixelmator.com/pro/updates/
Think you've found a bug? Please let us know at support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it!
1.0.9
2018-03-22
Pixelmator Pro 1.0.9 includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
• 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.
Think you’ve found a bug? Please let us know by dropping an email to support@pixelmator.com and we’ll fix it.
1.0.8
2018-02-03
Pixelmator Pro 1.0.8 features a number of under-the-hood fixes that improve performance and stability.
Here are the changes we added in Pixelmator Pro 1.0.7:
• The inner workings of the selection tools have been redesigned, solving lots of issues that would make Pixelmator Pro stop responding.
• The Color Adjustments have been improved to work faster.
• You can now import color adjustment, effect, layer style, and text presets by dragging and dropping them onto the Pixelmator Pro icon in the Dock.
• EXIF data would be lost after saving to the Pixelmator Pro file format, then closing and reopening the image. Fixed.
• The White Balance color picker can now easily balance colors in extremely over- and under-exposed images.
• Image sizes in inches were displayed incorrectly in the Image Size dialog. Fixed.
• Reopening a Pixelmator Pro document would reset its PPI to 150. PPI will now be saved correctly with your Pixelmator Pro documents.
• The line height of text layers in imported PSD documents will now be preserved correctly.
• Number grouping separators will now be ignored in all number fields instead of resetting values.
• If the Pixelmator Pro tools were hidden, the brush settings shortcut menu for any brush-based tools would not appear when Control-clicking the canvas. Fixed.
• The Colors histogram would be shown with colors even if an image was fully desaturated using the Hue & Saturation adjustment. Fixed.
• Shapes would occasionally be drawn with no fills or strokes even if those styles were applied. Fixed.
• A whole bunch of fixes for a number of different issues that would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Everything should now be much more stable.
Think you've found a bug? Please let us know by dropping an email to support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it.
1.0.7
2018-02-01
Pixelmator Pro 1.0.7 includes a range of performance and stability improvements as well as a number of bug fixes.
• The inner workings of the selection tools have been redesigned, solving lots of issues that would make Pixelmator Pro stop responding.
• The Color Adjustments have been improved to work faster.
• You can now import color adjustment, effect, layer style, and text presets by dragging and dropping them onto the Pixelmator Pro icon in the Dock.
• EXIF data would be lost after saving to the Pixelmator Pro file format, then closing and reopening the image. Fixed.
• The White Balance color picker can now easily balance colors in extremely over- and under-exposed images.
• Image sizes in inches were displayed incorrectly in the Image Size dialog. Fixed.
• Reopening a Pixelmator Pro document would reset its PPI to 150. PPI will now be saved correctly with your Pixelmator Pro documents.
• The line height of text layers in imported PSD documents will now be preserved correctly.
• Number grouping separators will now be ignored in all number fields instead of resetting values.
• If the Pixelmator Pro tools were hidden, the brush settings shortcut menu for any brush-based tools would not appear when Control-clicking the canvas. Fixed.
• The Colors histogram would be shown with colors even if an image was fully desaturated using the Hue & Saturation adjustment. Fixed.
• Shapes would occasionally be drawn with no fills or strokes even if those styles were applied. Fixed.
• A whole bunch of fixes for a number of different issues that would make Pixelmator Pro quit unexpectedly. Everything should now be much more stable.
Think you've found a bug? Please let us know by dropping an email to support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it.
1.0.6
2018-01-22
Pixelmator Pro 1.0.6 adds custom aspect ratios and custom presets to the Crop tool and includes a range of other improvements and bug fixes.
• Use the Crop tool to crop with your own custom ratios.
• Create and save custom crop presets.
• The Type tool will now be highlighted when a text layer is selected.
• If no text is selected, clicking a text preset will now add a new text layer with the preset style applied.
• When using the Type tool’s Color Picker, pressing the Escape key will now close the Color Picker, as it should.
• Drag shapes from the Layers view to the Shapes palette to save them to your collection.
• The selection tools will now be highlighted if there is an active selection.
• A number of performance improvements make the selection tools faster and more reliable.
• You can now copy, cut, paste, and duplicate the components inside shapes.
• The Color Selection tool now works on layers with color adjustments.
• You can now hold down the Space bar to move selections while using the Rectangular and Elliptical selection tools.
Other improvements and bug fixes
• When exporting to JPEG, the more common .jpg extension will be used instead of .jpeg.
• The BMP and GIF formats have been added to the list of file formats you can export to.
• Pressing Command-I now toggles the Invert adjustment, instead of simply applying it.
• Dotted strokes now appear as they do in the original Pixelmator, improving compatibility with PXM files.
• When changing image and canvas size, guides would be repositioned incorrectly. Fixed.
• Certain fonts with high baselines would be clipped to the boundaries of text boxes. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes make it impossible to change the font of certain text layers.
• Applying a gradient to the layer mask of a text layer would only work at the second attempt. Fixed.
• Copying a text layer and pasting it inside another text layer would include unnecessary text. Fixed.
• Dragging and dropping RAW images into Pixelmator Pro now works faster.
• RAW layers imported via drag and drop would sometimes have incorrect layer handles. Fixed
• Fixed an issue that would cause imported layers with transparent areas to be displayed incorrectly.
• When using the Paint tool in images with advanced color profiles, the colors in the Colors window would not match up with colors in the image. Fixed.
• Painting on an empty layer and moving a section of it would change the color of the painted areas. Fixed.
• The position of gradient fills would shift after converting text into a shape. Fixed.
• Trimming the canvas according to the color of the top left and bottom right pixels now works correctly.
• Undo steps would sometimes disappear when creating selections. Fixed.
• The Color Fill pop-up menu now correctly shows the selected blending mode.
• Occasionally, it would not be possible to save images if the Image fill effect was applied. Fixed.
• The fills of resized shapes will now be preserved more accurately.
• When using the Fill layer style on very small layers, the fill would sometimes disappear. Fixed.
• Several improvements fix flickering and positioning issues when editing shapes.
• The canvas would sometimes jump after resetting changes made with the Crop tool. Fixed.
• When exporting JPEG images without a specified color profile, one would be attached anyway. Fixed.
• If the preference for importing JPEG, PNG, and TIFF images was disabled, images opened via File > New from Photos would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding when saving. Fixed.
• Combining effects like Affine and Op Tile would sometimes produce infinite images and cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. Fixed.
• A number of fixes improve the stability of various tools that use gradients.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes stop responding after moving the app from a Retina to a non-Retina display. Fixed.
Think you've found a bug? Please let us know by dropping an email to support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it.
1.0.5
2017-12-15
This update includes a number of performance improvements and bug fixes.
• The speed of the painting tools has been improved — your first brushstroke should now be much faster.
• You can now import brushes from the original Pixelmator.
• When you drag and drop a layer to add it your image, it will now be added above your selected layer and not at the top of the layer stack.
• You can now export images to JPEG-2000 format.
• Fixed a number of cases that would make Pixelmator Pro stop responding when using the painting tools.
• You can now use the Command-J and Command-Shift-J keyboard shortcuts to copy/cut and paste selections as layers.
• Graphical artifacts would sometimes appear after repairing with the Repair tool. Fixed.
• When reverting to an earlier version of your image, the background color would sometimes be incorrect. Fixed.
• The colors of images exported to PSD would be incorrect when opened in Final Cut Pro X. Fixed.
• The horizontal edges of objects would snap to the grid incorrectly. Fixed.
• When flipping an object, its position will now be preserved more accurately.
• Merged layers will now be named after the top layer.
• Various fixes improve dragging and dropping shapes and paths.
• The option in Pixelmator Pro preferences for importing images or opening in the native format is now much more descriptive.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes stop responding when changing the color of a text layer. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes stop responding when quickly switching to and from the Crop tool. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes stop responding when resetting a selection. Fixed.
• Several related fixes make Pixelmator Pro less likely to quit unexpectedly.
Think you've found a bug? Please let us know by dropping an email to support@pixelmator.com and we'll fix it.
1.0.4
2017-12-10
This update includes a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
• The last used Layers view will now be used for all new images.
• You can now press the Space bar to use the Hand tool while making selections with Free, Polygonal, and Magnetic Selection tools.
• The Unite, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude buttons for editing vector shapes are now available when using the Arrange tool.
• Copy Style, Paste Style, Unite Shapes, Subtract Shapes, Intersect Shapes, and Merge Shape Components are now available in the Layers view shortcut menu.
• You can now press Command-Option-A to select all the layers in an image.
• The performance of the painting tools has been improved. Brushes like Varnish should now be much faster, more improvements are also coming.
• You can now undo guide movements.
• Several related fixes improve the reliability of cursors.
• Edit > Cut will now clear selected areas.
• Canvas Size will now work with negative values when Relative is selected.
• When exporting presets using the preset shortcut menu, only a single preset will be exported.
• The Color Fill tool color picker will now be canceled if you press the Escape key.
• Trim Canvas will now work correctly with masked layers.
• Document PPI will now be preserved when saving.
• Fixed an issue that caused Pixelmator Pro to stop responding when resizing the canvas with an active selection.
• The Grid will now be displayed correctly with all PPI settings.
• Hidden layers will no longer become visible when merging.
• The template chooser will now show template details by default.
• The Open Recent menu will no longer show nonexistent images.
• Your scanned images will now be imported once a scan has been completed.
• A range of additional stability fixes and improvements.
1.0.3
2017-12-02
• Fixed an issue that prevented using units other than pixels when changing canvas size.
• Pressing the Command-A keyboard shortcut will now select text in text fields and dialogs if they are active, instead of the entire canvas.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly when removing a layer while editing effects applied to it. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue that caused Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly when selecting brush presets.
• If the stroke layer style failed to appear when selected, Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Using the Color Fill tool on an empty layer with preserve transparency enabled would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Fixed several related issues that would cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding while painting.
• Fixed several issues that would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly while opening PSD files.
• Improved the overall stability of the Arrange tool.
1.0.2
2017-12-01
This update includes a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
• When combining a large number of vector shapes, these would sometimes be merged incorrectly. Fixed.
• Layers would sometimes become blurry when flipping them vertically or horizontally after increasing their size. Fixed.
• Several fixes for painting on layer masks and undoing changes after editing layer masks.
• The colors of objects copied from images in one color space to images in another were managed incorrectly. Fixed.
• The Color Fill and Gradient Fill tools would not fill precise colors when an image was assigned a different color space. Fixed.
• Fill layer styles with transparent color stops were not being blended correctly with layers. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly when applying gradients to an empty layer. Fixed.
• Moving a selection outside the canvas would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit expectedly. Fixed.
• Converting a text layer into pixels would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
• Several fixes for exporting 16-bit PXD documents to PSD.
• When attempting to select a layer with an empty layer mask, the wrong layer would sometimes be selected. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly when painting on a resized layer. Fixed.
• Several fixes for crashes when opening PSD files.
• Several fixes for crashes when editing text.
Think you’ve found a bug? Please let us know by dropping an email to support@pixelmator.com and we’ll fix it.
1.0.1
2017-11-30
This update adds several new localizations as well as a number of performance improvements and bug fixes.
• Pixelmator Pro now speaks French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.
• A range of performance improvements speeds up moving layers, zooming, and opening images. Opening images is now up to 6 times faster in some cases.
• The Colors histogram now displays colors based on the total size of objects rather than the amount of pure color.
• Color adjustment previews are now much sharper.
• When saving an image while applying color adjustments to an active selection, the adjustments would be discarded. Fixed.
• The Magnetic Selection tool is now more precise.
• Improved selection smoothing when copying and pasting selections.
• Selections with transparent areas would sometimes be shifted when copying and pasting.
• The Select Color tool is now much faster when zooming.
• Layers would sometimes move slightly when selecting them using the Arrange, Text, or Shape tools. Fixed.
• Completely masked layer areas will no longer be automatically selected if they’re not visible in the image.
• Using the Style and other tools, it was possible to select hidden layers by clicking in the image. Now, you should only be able to select them in the Layers view.
• When using the Arrange tool with Auto Select turned off, you needed to drag inside a layer to move it. Now you can also drag outside the active layer to move it.
• Converting the bit depth of an image would not always work reliably. It does now.
• Changing the color profile of an image would sometimes not work. It does now.
• Undoing changes after resizing text layers would sometimes not work. Fixed.
• The Constrain Proportions option would sometimes be deselected for layers when saving a Pixelmator Pro document.
• The compression option would be ignored when exporting 16-bit TIFF images. 16-bit TIFF images will now be compressed.
• You can now choose to export images with 8-bit or 16-bit color depth.
• Horizontal lines would sometimes appear on Mac computers with Radeon graphics cards. Fixed.
• When exporting to JPEG, there was an option to save with 16-bit color depth. JPEG does not support that, so that option has been removed.
• When exporting to PNG, it was possible to choose CMYK as the color profile. PNG files do not support CMYK profiles, so this has been removed.
• Pixelmator Pro would sometimes quit unexpectedly when closing documents. Fixed
• When resetting all brush collections to default, these would sometimes not be updated in all files. Fixed.
• Many other improvements, including a number of crash fixes.