| What's new in this version: Pixelmator Pro 3.4.3
- 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
Pixelmator Pro 3.4.2
- 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
Pixelmator Pro 3.4.1
- Change log not available for this version
Pixelmator Pro 3.4
- 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
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.13
- Change log not available for this version
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.12
- 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
- Fixed: Left bracket [ and right bracket ] keyboard shortcuts would not work correctly on some keyboard layouts
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.10
- Change log not available for this version
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.9
- 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
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.7
- Change log not available for this version
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.6
- Change log not available for this version
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.5
- Added optimizations to improve Pixelmator Pro compatibility with Photomator
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.4
- Added optimizations to improve Pixelmator Pro compatibility with Photomator
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.3
- Change log not available for this version
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.2
- Pixelmator Pro 3.3.2 adds a stunning new Book Club collection of fully customizable design templates
- Enjoy 17 gorgeous new templates for creating posters, cards, social media posts, stories, and more
- Quickly replace placeholders with your own images or videos using the Replace Layer button
- When replacing placeholder content, instantly enjoy great results with AI-powered template editing features such as Remove Background, Auto Fill, and Super Resolution
- Choose from designer-created, built-in color palettes to quickly change the look of your design
Pixelmator Pro 3.3.1
- Pixelmator Pro 3.3 Mosaic brings an all-new Remove Color adjustment for quickly removing color from images and even videos, powerful Clarity, Selective Clarity, and Texture adjustments for intelligently enhancing fine details in images, new stroke styles and more options for customizing strokes, new ways to save edits using sidecar files, and a whole lot more.
Remove Color:
- Powered by a state-of-the-art Texture-Aware Algorithm, the Remove Color adjustment lets you remove solid colors or entire color ranges from images and videos with remarkable quality and ease
- Simply pick a color you want to remove using the color picker and watch it instantly disappear
- Adjust how much of the selected color is removed using Color Range, Luminance Range, and Intensity sliders
- When removing background color in videos, use the Remove Color adjustment together with the Replace Color adjustment to get ultra-high-quality results
Texture-Aware Color Adjustments:
- Enjoy texture-aware Shadows, Highlights, Exposure, and Brightness adjustments and two new adjustments — Clarity and Texture — in the renewed Basic color adjustments group
- Recover much more detail from underexposed or overexposed photos with updated Shadows and Highlights adjustments
- Increase Clarity to subtly enhance image texture and colors, making the image look sharper and clearer overall, or reduce clarity to make the image look smoother
- Enhance Texture to subtly add contrast to images, making fine detail pop, or reduce texture to smooth out the image
- Adjust fine detail exclusively in the shadows, midtones, and highlights with the new Selective Clarity adjustment
Stroke Styles:
- Create beautiful custom outlines around images and shapes with the all-new stroke customization options and a collection of built-in stroke styles
- In the Stroke style settings, find the new Stroke Options pop-up menu with options for creating and saving custom stroke styles
- Use the new options to change stroke alignment, apply different stroke cap styles including Butt, Round, or Square, select a square, round or beveled style for stroke corners, create dashed lines, and more.
- Find a collection of popular stroke endpoint styles, including open and closed arrowheads, diamond, square, and more.
- Scale endpoints together or individually using endpoint scaling options
- In the new Stroke Styles pop-up menu, find 7 built-in stroke presets to immediately use in your designs
- To save your own custom designs as presets, click the Add button at the top right corner of the Stroke Styles menu
Sidecar Files Support:
- Thanks to the new sidecar feature, you can now open and edit images in their original file format, and then save them back to the same file format while preserving all nondestructive edits and layers
- Sidecar files are stored in iCloud or the Pictures folder on your Mac, separately from the original image
- You can also save any new document to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, and HEIC and preserve the edits
- Easily save images opened from Photos back to the Photos library with layers and edits by choosing File > Modify Original in Photos
- Continue editing the modified images in Photos using the Pixelmator Pro extension
- Find, manage, and delete sidecar files in the Manage Files menu
- Turn automatic document saving and macOS Versions on and off by selecting or deselecting Use Auto Save and Versions
- Find the new Editing options in Pixelmator Pro Settings
Other Improvements:
- Fill layers with custom patterns and adjust their scale, angle, and opacity, using the new Pattern fill style
- Search and access all Pixelmator Pro tutorials straight from the Help menu
- Applying LUTs, color adjustments, effects, and auto color adjustments to videos using Shortcuts is now supported
Pixelmator Pro 3.2.3
- Pixelmator Pro 3.2.3 introduces the powerful, machine learning-powered Deband feature, which lets you magically remove color posterization and compression artifacts from your images, adds new gorgeous holiday templates for creating holiday cards, posters, social media posts, stories, and more.
- Magically improve the quality of your images by removing color banding and compression artifacts using the new, machine learning-powered Deband feature.
- Find Deband in the Format menu at the top of your screen or by using the Control-Shift-B keyboard shortcut.
- Get the best debanding results in images with 16-bit color depth. When an image has 8-bit-per-channel depth, choose Image > Color Depth > 16 Bits/Channel to convert it, then apply Deband.
- Automatically remove color banding from your images using AppleScript support for Deband.
- Create beautiful holiday cards, posters, social media posts, and stories using the all-new holiday templates.
- Create social media posts and stories about your best moments of the year with beautiful year-in-review templates.
- Quickly customize your holiday templates by replacing placeholder content and choosing from different built-in color palettes and alternative elements designed for each template individually.
- The machine learning-powered ML Denoise, ML Super Resolution, and ML Match Colors have been renamed to Denoise, Super Resolution, and Match Colors.
- Fixed: In some cases, SVG files downloaded from the internet, wouldn't open.
- Fixed: When opening videos with a non-square pixel aspect ratio, they'd appear stretched. |
