Pixelmator is a very nice-looking graphics editor for the Mac. It is an app that is incredibly lightweight, fast, and has an excellent design. It allows you to carry out most basic image editing tasks. It has a variety of tools that can be used to touch up images, or completely change a picture. Most of the tools that you see in commercial graphics editors are there. Of course, you just need the knowledge and creativity of a designer to make the better possible use of them.
Pixelmator supports most graphics formats. I have been using this tool for a while for basic things, like resizing a picture or deleting parts of it. I have also used it to convert formats. I like that it has a web export feature that resizes images considerably and converts them to JPG. It all can be done using keyboard hotkeys, too, which saves me a lot of time.
This app integrates well with other Apple apps present in your system. For example, it can take pictures from your iSight camera and load them onto the interface. It can also access your iPhoto library to browse images.
All in all, this is a great graphics editing app that can be used for basic and more complex operations. It is not very expensive and it has always worked well for me.
v3.9
Pixelmator 3.9 Classic adds full support for macOS Catalina, including support for Sidecar and Apple Pencil, and brings a few other improvements and fixes.
• Pixelmator is now fully compatible with macOS Catalina, including support for Sidecar and Apple Pencil.
• A new button to change the visibility of the Layers palette has been added to the Touch Bar.
• When showing palettes, they will now appear on the currently active screen rather than the primary display.
• Pressure sensitivity when using graphics tablet pens (and Apple Pencil with Sidecar) has been improved.
• The Pixelmator extensions for the Photos app have been rebuilt using optimized Swift code.
• Brush size by pressure will now scale linearly from 1-100% and algorithmically from 100%-1000%.
• It is now possible to open Pixelmator documents with some missing data.
Fixes
• The Tools palette's shortcut menu would sometimes be slightly offset on external displays. Fixed.
• When using vector tools and setting the Stroke slider in the Touch Bar to the minimum value, the arrow buttons in the Tool Options bar would be disabled. Fixed.
• The Continuity camera was not working. Fixed.
• The effect rope would sometimes be displayed incorrectly on external displays. Fixed.
• The color of text would change slightly while creating a new layer and pasting something into the document. Fixed.
• The color of text would change slightly when opening another document with a different color space. Fixed.
• The default orientation of new alignment guides was incorrect. Fixed.
• When clicking the color well in the Rulers Preferences, the Colors window would not appear if it was already open before opening the Preferences window. Fixed.
• Pixelmator would quit unexpectedly when attempting to use the Touch Bar while the trial window was open. Fixed.
• Pixelmator would quit unexpectedly when adding numerical values to the names of layer slices. Fixed.
• Pixelmator would sometimes quit unexpectedly when trying to use the color well in the Fonts palette. Fixed.
• Various fixes improve the stability of Pixelmator.
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