Version 3.5.722 February 2024Pixelmator Pro 3.5.7 now offers full support for the new Photomator Files browser on Mac. This lets users share their photos to Pixelmator Pro for further editing using the "Edit with Pixelmator Pro" feature, and easily save them back to Photomator. The update also improves support for Adobe Illustrator files and brings faster performance for compositions with multiple adjustments layers on Mac devices with Apple silicon.
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Version 3.5.322 December 2023Pixelmator Pro fixes an issue where the histogram and ML Enhance features would not work correctly with RAW photos on Mac computers equipped with Intel chips, and adds a few other smaller improvements and fixes.
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Version 3.4.311 October 2023Pixelmator Pro 3.4.3 fixes an issue where the opacity of gradient color stops could not be set to 0%.
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Version 3.3.1221 August 2023Pixelmator 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.
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Version 3.3.823 June 2023Pixelmator 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.
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Version 3.3.221 March 2023Pixelmator 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.
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Version 3.2.321 December 2022Pixelmator 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.
• 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. Fixed.
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Version 3.1.104 November 2022Pixelmator Pro 3.1 is now fully compatible with the powerful new macOS Ventura, brings an ultra-fast Pixelmator Pro document opening experience, adds initial support for AVIF images, and introduces an all-new smooth corner style together with options for adjusting the radius of individual corners.
Improvements
• Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with and works great on macOS 13 Ventura.
• Enjoy instant Pixelmator Pro document opening thanks to document loading performance improvements.
• With initial support for the AVIF file format, you can now open AVIF images in Pixelmator Pro.
• Use the all-new smooth corner style to create beautiful new shapes, including squircles.
• Easily adjust corner radius with handy on-canvas controls.
• Set the radius of shape corners individually.
• Adjust the radius of individual corners by Command-dragging a radius handle.
• In the template chooser, open Recents by pressing the Command-R keyboard shortcut.
• Thanks to the all-new Clear Recents button, you can now clear recent blank documents and recent templates from Recents.
• Track export progress with a new on-canvas progress indicator.
• The last used "Shrink text to fit" setting will now be remembered for new layers and documents.
Fixes
• Template metadata would not contain the actual document creation date. Fixed.
• When exporting images at a 0.5x scale factor, certain text layers would occasionally disappear. Fixed.
• After using ML Super Resolution, some of the Export for Web settings would become unresponsive. Fixed.
• In certain situations, Pixelmator Pro documents would not open on external displays. Fixed.
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Version 3.022 September 2022Pixelmator Pro 3.0 Muse introduces an all-new way to create designs with over 200 easy‑to‑use design templates, AI-powered template editing, 16 fully‑customizable mockups, document color palettes, and more.
New Features
• Get inspired with over 200 easy-to-use templates designed following the best industry practices.
• Showcase your designs in 16 stunning, fully-customizable mockups.
• Enjoy incredibly fast template editing thanks to the machine learning-powered Smart Replace feature.
• Easily transform the look of templates using built-in alternative elements — lighting, shapes, effects, and illustrations.
• Use the new Document Colors feature to quickly change the colors of multiple layers in your designs.
200+ Design Templates
• Find templates for a wide range of different formats, including posters, social media posts, resumes, and more.
• Use brand templates to effortlessly build an eye-catching visual identity for your personal brand or business.
• Quickly replace placeholder content using on-canvas controls and watch as your custom images or text fit seamlessly into pre-made designs.
• Transform the look of a design in seconds using alternative elements — shapes, effects, and illustrations — designed exclusively for each template.
• The template browser has been redesigned, letting you easily browse template collections, see previews of templates, and search.
• You can search for specific templates by name or enter keywords to show related templates.
• Use the new preset browser to more conveniently browse image size presets, manage preset collections, and change document orientation.
AI-Powered Editing
• When replacing placeholder content that shouldn't have a background, it will be removed from your images automatically.
• Automatically insert images with the most optimal placement and composition using Auto Fill.
• Pixelmator Pro will upscale low-res images using Super Resolution if it detects that their quality is too low.
Mockups
• Find 16 fully-customizable mockups for devices such as Mac, iPad, and iPhone, and print formats, including posters, book covers, and more.
• Quickly adjust lighting or recolor objects in mockups to find a look that compliments your design the best.
• Replace the placeholder images with designs saved in regular image formats and multilayer document formats including PXD, PSD, and SVG.
Document Colors
• When working with templates or mockups, try out alternative color palettes created specifically for each template to see which one looks best for your design.
• Pixelmator Pro automatically generates color palettes using the colors of elements — styles, shapes, text, and effects — in a particular design.
• Quickly recolor your composition by changing, adding, or removing colors from a palette.
• Easily duplicate, copy and paste palettes between documents, or remove them.
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Version 2.4.501 July 2022Pixelmator Pro 2.4.5 introduces an all-new shapes browser, brings a few photo browser improvements, and includes a number of other improvements and fixes.
All-new Shapes Browser
• Thanks to the new shapes browser, finding and inserting shapes into your designs is now quicker and easier than ever.
• Find the new shapes browser in the Shape tool's options pane, the Add Layer menu at the top of the Layers sidebar, or add the new shapes browser button to your toolbar.
• Enjoy larger and easier-to-navigate shape thumbnails.
• Easily find shapes by name using the search bar.
• Seamlessly browse your entire shapes library without switching between different shape categories.
Photo Browser Improvements
• The photo browser is now even more stable and powerful, bringing a smoother image browsing and search experience.
• Use the new Zoom slider to change the size of image thumbnails.
• Show image thumbnails as square or in full aspect ratio.
• Add images to favorites using a Favorite button in the toolbar.
• Preview image names by hovering the pointer over their thumbnails.
• The photo browser will now show progress when downloading photos from iCloud and when indexing image search results.
• You can now Control-click an image thumbnail to access a shortcuts menu with additional image opening options.
• Option-click the Open button in the photo browser to open the original, unedited image (for images edited in Photos or using third-party extensions).
• If an image fails to open, Pixelmator Pro will show more informative errors to help you troubleshoot issues quicker.
Other Improvements and Fixes
• You can now add and edit layer styles of multiple selected layers. Original styles — fills, strokes, and shadows — applied to each individual layer are kept.
• You can also add, paste, and reset layer styles, color adjustments, and effects of multiple layers at a time.
• When exporting an image multiple times during the same editing session, Pixelmator Pro will now remember the last used document color profile setting.
• Advanced shapes exported to Motion file format will now be more accurate.
• Added improvements to better handle text in SVG files.
• RAW layers will now open with depth masks when inserted from Photos (using Insert > Photos) or when dragged to Pixelmator Pro from Finder.
• Improved color accuracy of Adobe Photoshop adjustment layers.
• You can now reset all Crop and Quick Export presets to default. The Reset All option will appear when pressing and holding Option while in the preset shortcut menu.
• Added a few stability improvements.
• Images with certain effects would sometimes look different when exported. Fixed.
• Copy and Paste as Layer and Cut and Paste as Layer features would not work with selections on RAW layers. Fixed.
• WebP Quick Export presets would not be displayed correctly in the Quick Export menu. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro would occasionally stop responding when saving changes. Fixed.
• Trying to load a Photos library that's been deleted or removed with an external storage drive would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.
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Version 2.4.319 May 2022Pixelmator Pro 2.4.3 introduces an all-new Photos browser and adds a few handy workflow improvements and fixes.
• The Photos browser has been redesigned from the ground up, bringing much improved support for iCloud Photos, a smoother photo browsing experience, and more.
• Opening photos stored in iCloud will now automatically download full-resolution versions of these photos.
• In the new Photos browser, you’ll now find the Recents, Favorites, Panoramas, Selfies, Screenshots, and most of the other standard Photos albums.
• Any changes you make in the Photos app — for example, if you rearrange or rename your albums, add or remove photos — will now instantly appear in the Photos browser.
• Change the size of thumbnails in the Photos browser using the Zoom buttons or the Command-Plus (+) and Command-Minus (-) keyboard shortcuts.
• It is now possible to change the colors of shapes and Color Fill effect right in the Layers sidebar. To open the color picker, double-click the layer thumbnail.
• You can now quickly convert color adjustments applied to a layer into a color adjustments layer. Do that by clicking the More button at the top of the Color Adjustments pane and choosing Convert to Color Adjustments Layer.
• PSD files exported from Pixelmator Pro will now open with editable Levels, Curves, Channel Mixer, and Invert adjustment layers in Adobe Photoshop.
• Improved SVG support with certain third-party apps.
• Option-scrolling to zoom using MacBook Air trackpads would sometimes work incorrectly. Fixed.
• Changing the image size would not scale the grain size and sharpen radius of the Grain and Sharpen color adjustments layers. Fixed.
• Added a few shape-related stability and performance improvements and fixed an issue with shape thumbnails.
Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at [email protected]!.
Version 2.3.520 January 2022Pixelmator Pro 2.3.5 brings an updated design for the Export for Web tool, adds the ability to evenly space objects of different sizes, includes some improvements and fixes for Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts, and features a range of additional improvements and fixes.
Refreshed Export for Web Tool
• The design of the Export for Web tool has been refreshed to make it easier to use.
• On Apple silicon-powered devices, the speed of advanced PNG compression has been greatly improved.
• You can now choose to keep or remove transparency when exporting WebP images optimized for the web.
Distribute Spacing
• The new Distribute Vertical Spacing and Distribute Horizontal Spacing features let you evenly space objects of different sizes.
Shortcuts Improvements and Fixes
• Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app were not working with a larger number of images – they should now be able to handle hundreds of images and work faster than before.
• When using the Pixelmator Pro actions in Shortcuts to export images for the web, remove noise, match colors, or increase resolution, the Pixelmator Pro app would stop responding while these actions were being processed. Fixed.
• Square images would not be resized with the Pixelmator Pro Resize Images action. Fixed.
Other Improvements and Fixes
• The View and Window menus have been rearranged to make the View menu a little more compact, moving window-related options to the Window menu.
• When exporting SVGs using the Export for Web tool, hidden layers will not be included in the final file.
• Images will now be shared to photos in HEIC instead of PNG, as photographic images tend to be very large in size.
• The Image Size keyboard shortcut was not working with Japanese keyboards. Fixed.
• With certain effects on shapes in PSD files, they would be opened incorrectly. Fixed.
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