The Pixelmator Team’s popular pro level image editing app, Pixelmator Pro has been updated to version 1.1.4, bring new Core ML-powered auto selective color adjustment, new effects, and much more.
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.
Pixelmator has discounted the pricing of Pixelmator Pro to $29.99, which is a $30 discount off of the original $59.99 tariff. So, if you’ve ever considered stepping up to Pixelmator Pro, now is the time. Pixelmator Pro is available in the Mac App Store. [GET IT HERE]
