In addition to this, there’s a whole lot more that we’ve added. Layered TIFFs, PSBs, improved effects, and more They’ll also be exported as shapes from Pixelmator Pro, bringing much improved compatibility! Now, they’ll be opened as vector shapes, which is a really big deal. Previously, PSD shape layers would be opened as image layers in Pixelmator Pro. There are so many things that have been improved with regard to PSD support, but one of the most important ones is support for shapes in PSDs. Also, we dived really deep into the PSD format itself and have a much better understanding of it, with some fantastic internal documentation and a great foundation for even more improvements in the future. A cool note is that for the reading and writing part of this project, we used the Rust programming language. This was a really big project and took us almost a year to complete. And we’ve completely rewritten it to be faster, safer (crash-free!), and much more advanced.
#PIXELMATOR HELP UPDATE#
Today, we’re releasing Pixelmator Pro 2.1.3, which includes a huge update to our support for Adobe Photoshop files – in fact, we’ve rewritten the entire engine that handles this from the ground up.įirst of all, what’s the PSD engine? It’s what we call the part of the app that handles reading, opening, and writing PSD files – in a nutshell, everything to do with PSDs.
#PIXELMATOR HELP MAC#
Pixelmator Pro is available exclusively in the Mac App Store.AugPixelmator Pro 2.1.3 brings huge improvements to PSD supportĪfter a short summer break, the entire Pixelmator Team is back at work, continuing our quest to create the world’s best image editor! And boy do we have some great stuff in store for you over the coming months.
#PIXELMATOR HELP FOR FREE#
Now, you can just drag and crop a color from anywhere onto the canvas to fill the current layer.Īs always, the new update is available for free to Pixelmator Pro owners. This action previously required manually using the bucket tool or adding a Fill Layer Style to the layer.
This update also introduces a new Quick Fill feature, which makes it simple to fill layers with a color via drag and drop. They have also added a Stroke with Brush feature that lets you use brush strokes instead of a simple border, on any late or selection. The Paint tool features a brush browser, and you can search for brushes by name. For instance, the Type tool now includes adjustments for text size, character spacing, baseline shift and ligature controls right up front. The Type tool and Paint tool palettes have been redesigned to bring more controls to the fore.
Pixelmator should also be much more performant at the act of cropping, particular on documents with many layers. To help get just the right look, overlays for Rule of Thirds, Golden Spiral and other alignment guides are availably directly from the Crop Tool. You can use the machine-learning suggestion directly or adjust it to match your intent. ML Crop makes it super easy to get a striking composition out of a source image. There are also a bunch of other changes, including major updates to the Paint brush and Type text tools.
The new update includes an ML Crop feature which automatically suggests a refined framing based on the subject in the canvas. The Pixelmator team today released the latest free update to its image editor for Mac, Pixelmator Pro.