Pixelmator 1.2.1

Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, fast, easy-to-use, and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, enhance and edit your images.

Pixelmator harnesses the full power of Mac OS X. It takes advantage not only of Core Image, Open GL or Automator, it also supports, Spotlight, ColorSync, and many other technologies. Pixelmator was built exclusively for Mac OS X, and it shows.

The Photo Browser palette in Pixelmator offers quick access to your iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums and pictures in your Pictures folder. Best of all, just drag-and-drop any of those images as layers to your Pixelmator composition.

Ever thought about what else you could do with that little camera on your Mac’s display? Sure, you could use it to videoconference with your friends or take photos of yourself with funny faces.

But now you can also use iSight with Pixelmator. One click, and Pixelmator takes a picture of you via iSight and adds it as layer into your composition. When you’ve done that you can, for example, cut yourself out, put in another background and create postcard for your friends. It couldn’t be easier! Here are some key features of "Pixelmator":

File Formats

• Compatible with over 100 still image file formats
• PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PICT, ART, AVI, AVS, BMP, CGM, CIN, CUR, CUT, DCM, DCX, DIB, DJVU, DNG, DOT, DPX, EMF, EPDF, EPI, EPS, EPS2, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, EXR, FAX, FIG, FITS, FPX, GPLT, GRAY, HPLG, HTML, ICO, JBIG, JNG, JP2, JPC, MAN, MAT, MIFF, MONO, MNG, MPEG, M2V, MPC, MSL, MTV, MVG, OTB, P7, PALM, PAM, PBM, PCD, PCDS, PCL, PCX, PDB, PDF, PFA, PFB, PGM, PICON, PIX, PNM, PPM, PS, PS2, PS3, PTIF, PWP, RAD, RLA, RLE, SCT, SFW, SGI, SUN, SVG, TGA, TIM, TTF, UIL, UYVY, VICAR, VIFF, WBMP, WMF, WPG, X, XBM, XCF, XPM, XWD, YUV.
• Supports Photoshop images with layers.

Image Processing

• Layers-based image editing
• Image processing is powered by Core Image technology
• Based on ImageMagick foundation
• Use over 20 tools for selection, crop, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation
• Use over 15 color correction tools
• Use over 50 filters
• Adjust image size and resolution
• Specify canvas size
• Rotate canvas
• Transform images, layers or selections using transform tools
• Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort, Perspective, Flip (vertical or horizontal)
• Fill images, layers or selections
• Stroke images, layers or selections

Tools

• Use over 20 tools for selecting, cropping, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation
• Selection tools
• Rectangular Marquee
• Elliptical Marquee
• Lasso
• Magic Wand
• Move
• Modify selection
• Feather
• Border
• Contract
• Expand
• Inverse selection
• Load selection from layer
• Save selection as Mask
• Edit selection in QuickMask mode
• Crop tool
• Painting tools
• Brush
• Pencil
• Gradient
• Paint Bucket
• Specify blend mode, opacity, brush for painting tool
• Retouching tools
• Clone Stamp
• Eraser
• Blur
• Sharpen
• Specify strength, brush. Specify blending mode, brush, opacity for Clone Stamp tool.
• Type tool
• Creates editable type layer
• Measuring and navigation tools
• Eyedropper
• Hand
• Zoom

Color Correction Tools

• Use over 16 color correction tools
• Levels
• Auto Levels
• Auto Contrast
• Auto Color
• Brightness and Contrast
• Hue/Saturation
• Desaturate
• Colorize
• Replace Color
• RGB Channel Mixer
• Exposure
• Invert
• Equalize
• Threshold
• Posterize

Filters

• Use over 50 Core Image-powered filters
• Distortion filters
• Bump, Circle Splash, Circular Wrap, Displacement, Glass, Glass Lozenge, Hole, Pinch, Torus Lens, Twirl, Vortex
• Blur
• Gaussian Blur, Median, Motion Blur, Noise Reduction, Zoom Blur
• Sharpen
• Sharpen Luminance, Unsharp Mask
• Color
• Color Map, Color Monochrome, False Color, Mask to Alpha, Sepia Tone
• Stylize
• Blend with Mask, Bloom, Crystallize, Edge Work, Edges, Gloom, Height Field from Mask, Pixellate, Pointillize, Shaded Material, Spot Light
• Halftone
• CMYK Halftone, Circular Screen, Dot Screen, Hatched Screen, Line Screen
• Tile
• Affine Clamp, Affine Tile, Kaleidoscope, Op Tile, Parallelogram Tile, Perspective Tile, Triangle Tile
• Generators
• Checkerboard, Constant Color, Lenticular Halo, Random Generator, Star Shine, Stripes, Sunbeams
• Transitions
• Copy Machine, Disintegrate with Mask, Dissolve, Flash, Mod, Page Curl, Ripple, Swipe

Layers

• Layers-based image editing
• Create new, duplicate, delete, rename, load as selection or hide layers
• Create editable text layers
• Use New Layer from iSight feature to add pictures as layers from iSight camera
• Change blending mode for layer
• Normal, Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Darker Color, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Lighter Color, Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color and Luminosity.
• Adjust layer opacity
• Preserve layer transparency
• Create clipping masks
• Add, remove, edit, show or hide layer masks
• Link, unlink or select linked layers
• Rasterize Text layers
• Merge layers
• Flatten image
• Arrange layers
• Drag-and-drop layers onto Mac OS X desktop to export to PNG
• Drag-and-drop pictures into layers palette or Pixelmator image view to place them as layers

User Interface

• Interface designed for work with images
• Transparent HUD (heads-up display) palettes
• Tools, Tool Options, Layers, Brushes, Swatches, Scratch, Mask, Gradients and Photo Browser palettes
• Full-screen mode
• QuickMask mode
• Add layer from iSight sheet shows preview

Mac OS X Integration

• Photo Browser offers quick access to iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums and Pictures folder
• Use your iSight camera to add pictures to your compositions
• Comes with Automator actions
• Spotlight support
• Drag-and-drop support
• Build-in Help
• Apple Fonts and Apple Color Picker palettes

Automator Actions

• Pixelmator includes Automator actions for converting, resizing, enhancing, adding special effects and transforming images
• Special Effects action allows you to add over 19 filters
• Change type of image action allows conversion of over 100 still image file formats
• Enhance action offers over 13 color correction tools
• Resize images action allows you to edit size and resolution of images
• Transform images action offers 19 different transformations for images

Colors

• ColorSync
• Assign ColorSync profiles
• Match to ColorSync profiles
• Select colors using Apple Color Picker
• Add, remove and pick colors from Swatches pallete
• Pick colors from Scratch palette
• Eyedropper allows picking colors from images

Metadata

• View or extract metadata from images
• Add, remove or edit keywords
• Use Spotlight to find images by any metadata info
• Available over 50 metadata tags

Technologies

• Pixelmator is built using Cocoa
• ImageMagick foundation is used as a base of Pixelmator
• Image processing is powered by Core Image and Open GL
• Includes Automator actions
• ColorSync color management
• Spotlight support
• QuickTime
• Sparkle
• Cairo