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Pixelmator Pro is a powerful and easy-to-use image editor for Mac. You can use it to edit your photos, create brand new images, build designs and layouts, and do a whole lot more. To start editing, open an existing image or create a new document. Just choose an option from the Pixelmator Pro welcome screen (shown below) or the File menu at the. Nov 14,  · Pixelmator's next version will be named Pixelmator 1.X the code_name, and so on. The most current version is Pixelmator Sprinkle. Pixelmator 1.X updates are usually free for registered. Jan 03,  · Tap the Pixelmator Photo app on your iPad to open it. Tap the Continue button at the Pixelmator Photo welcome screen. Tap Show Photos on the next screen, which tells you how to switch between Photos and Files. Tap OK on the dialog asking for Pixelmator to have access to your photos. Source: iMore. Jan 20,  · While Photoshop is the industry standard, Pixelmator has a lot to offer for Mac users. In this post, we’ll feature more than 25 tutorials for using Pixelmator, including a number of video tutorials. Some of the tutorials are rather basic and will help you to get familiar with the interface and tools, and others teach specific techniques.
 
 

 

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Home Quick Start Guide. Read quick start guide. New Tutorials How to place text behind objects in a photo Add text to a photo and make it appear to be inside the photo itself. In some cases, a series of peaks in the center of the histogram indicates a balanced exposure since a majority of the pixels are concentrated within the midtones of the histogram. An overexposed image will usualy have a series of peaks on the brighter, right side of the histogram.

However, for some images, such as images shot at night or images of snow, interpreting the histogram to evaluate exposure is not an option since those naturally have a different histogram that is correct. Curves Use Curves to adjust the entire tonal range of an image. Also use Curves to make precise adjustments to individual color channels in an image.

The horizontal axis in the Curves dialog box represents the current values of the pixels in an image or a selected part of an image. Adjust a curve by adding and moving points and adjusting the shape of the curve. Add a point by clicking directly on the curve. To adjust the shape of the curve, click a point and drag the curve until the tone and color look correct. To adjust the color balance of the image, select the channel by cliking on its icon at the top of the curves palette.

The default curve is a straight line with an angle of 45 degrees. For each pixel, the input value is the same as the output value. Changes in the position of the lower left will affect the dark values in your image. Changes to the center will affect the middle values most, and changes in the upper right will affect the lightest values in your image.

About Histograms: The area under the graph represents all the pixels in the image. Using a histogram is a good way to evaluate exposure, but it does not work for all images. Color Balance Use the Color Balance tool to change the overall mixture of colors in an image for color correction. To use Color Balance: 1. Select the tonal range that you want to edit whether it is shadows, midtones or highlights.

Drag the sliders to add color to one color by subtracting from another. Before Color Balance adjustment. Preserved Luminosity: When using Color Balance tool, the luminosity is always preserved to maintain the tonal balance in the image.

Example On the right is an example of a picture before Color Balance was added and the same picture after Color Balance was added:. Brightness and Contrast Use the Brightness and Constrast tool in Pixelmator to adjust brightness and contrast in an image. The Brightness and Contrast tool makes simple adjustments to the tonal range of an image. Drag the sliders to adjust the brightness and contrast. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Brightness and Constrast was added and the same picture after Brightness and Constrast was added:.

Use the Hue and Saturation tool to adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of a specific color in an image or all colors in an image.

Hue and Saturation is mainly used for image color correction. Further, adjusting the handles tightens or loosens the color tones. To adjust the Saturation, drag the slider to the right to increase the saturation or to the left to decrease it. Choose which color to adjust in the colors tab. The Hue and Saturation tool can either be applied to the whole image or a restricted palette, such as only the red tones.

To adjust the whole image, leave the first tab selected. To adjust a particular tone, for instance the reds, select the red tab. Drag the Lightness slider to the right to increase lightness or the left to decrease lightness. Adjust the Range of Colors To specify what range of colors to adjust with the Hue and Saturation tool, in the Hue and Saturation palette choose a color from the colors tab and spin the range dots around the color wheel. The more saturated area on the color wheel is included in the editable range of colors, while the desaturated area of the color wheel is not included and will not be edited.

Desaturate Use the Desaturate command to convert your image, selection or layer to a black and white image. Note: Desaturate command has exactly the same effect as setting the Saturation in the Hue and Saturation tool to – Example Below is an example of Desaturate in action.

Colorize Use the Colorize adjustment to colorize an image for a monotone effect. To use Colorize adjustment: 1. Spin the dot around the color wheel to choose whichever color you want your image to turn into.

Drag the saturation slider to adjust the level of saturation. Moving the slider will adjust the lightness of the pixels. Before Colorize adjustment. Lightness control is crucial when you need to colorize black or white pixels. Since black and white cannot hold any shades of color, the lightness slider needs to be adjusted to bring in color. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Colorize was added and the same picture after Colorize was added: After Colorize adjustment.

Replace Color Use Replace Color adjustment to turn any selected color to another. To use Replace Color: 1. By default, the color box will feature the foreground color selected in your Pixelmator toolbox.

Adjust the radius slider. The radius lets you specify how wide the colors can extend from the base color selected above. A narrow radius will switch only a limited palette, while a high radius will replace more color variants.

A unique feature of the radius control is that while adjusting it will show you a preview of range of colors that are to be affected by Replace Color tool. Portions of an image that appear white in a preview are in the affected range, while the black pixels are not going to be touched by any changes.

Use the Saturation and Lightness sliders to adjust the saturation and lightness of the pixels. Channel Mixer Use Channel Mixer adjustment to create sepia tone or other tinted images or creative color adjustments by mixing color channels.

To use the Channel Mixer tool: 1. In the Channel Mixer palette, select the color channel in which to blend one or more existing channels. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Channel Mixer was added and the same picture after Channel Mixer was added:. Exposure Use Exposure adjustment to adjust the exposure setting for tonal range of an image.

To use the Exposure tool: 1. Drag the exposure slider to the right to increase exposure or drag it to the left to decrease it. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Exposure was added and the same picture after Exposure was added:. Invert Use Invert to invert colors in an image. To invert colors: 1. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Invert was added and the same picture after Invert was added:. Threshold Use Threshold adjustment to convert image, selection or layer to high-contrast, black-and-white pixels.

To use the Threshold tool: 1. Drag the slider to set the threshold level you want, and click OK. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Threshold was added and the same picture after Threshold was added:. Posterize Use Posterize adjustment to remap red, green, and blue color components to the number of brightness values you specify for each color component.

To use the Posterize tool: 1. Drag the slider to specify the number of tonal levels. Example On the right is an example of a picture before Posterize was added and the same picture after Posterize was added:. That means you can edit and apply special effects to portions of your pictures, remove unwanted objects, or even cut out objects from one picture to put on another.

Chapter 6. Chapter 6: Making Selections Someone who is editing images must be able to select the right shapes, portions or objects in images. This chapter provides information about selection tools in Pixelmator. Selecting Selecting is a very important part of image editing since you can select any part of your images and edit that part by applying color adjustments, special effects and filters, fill, stroke, transform, move, delete, duplicate or copy and paste the selected part as a new layer to other images.

You can also use commands in the Edit menu to select all pixels, to deselect, reselect, invert, cut, copy or to select a range of colors within an entire image or even load selections from layers. Selection isolates selected parts of your image and after they are edited unselected areas are left untouched.

For easier and more precise selecting, a Quick Mask editing mode is available in Pixelmator that allows you to temporarily show your selection as a colored overlay and use any of the painting tools or filters to modify it.

The Refine Selection option helps you to enhance your selections by modifying its smoothness, feathered aspects and size. Pixelmator has every tool you need to easily make a precise selection. Select Color The Select Color tool allows you to select a specified color or a range of colors in an image. To use the Select Color tool: 1. Choose the color you would like to select by clicking on the Color swatch button and using the Colors palette to choose.

Click the OK button to accept changes, Cancel to reject changes or the Reset button to revert to the original selection.

Tip: You may use the Select Color tool to select a specified color not only within an entire image but also within an existing selection. Make a selection using any of the selection tools and then use the Select Color tool to select color range within an existing selection. Both tools work in a similar way:.

Tip: You can also point your mouse cursor on an image so that an Eyedropper tool will appear. Use the Eyedropper to quickly select color you want by clicking on the image.

Select prefered color range with the radius slider. While moving, any pixels that show white are in the selection, while the black pixels will not be added into the selection. To draw a selection from its center, hold down the Option key after you begin dragging. Select a Marquee Tool in the Tools palette. Choose a selection mode in the Tool Options palette:. If selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, check the Anti-alias setting for smoothing the edges of a selection. For jagged but precise edges, uncheck the Anti-alias checkbox.

Check the Anti-alias setting for smoothing the edges of a selection. Check the Anti-alias setting for smoother edges of a selection. For jagged, but precise edges, uncheck the Anti-alias checkbox. To use the Polygonal Lasso Tool: 1. Select the Lasso Tool in the Tools palette or press L on your keyboard and choose Polygonal tool type in the Tool Options palette or press the L key again.

To cancel drawing the selection using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, press the Escape key on your keyboard. To use the Magic Wand: 1. Check the Sample All Layers checkbox if you want to make a selection from all visible layers. With Sample All Layers unchecked, it will only make a selection from the currently selected layer. Click the color you want to select in an image and slowly drag over it.

As you drag, the colored area selection grows to include the contiguous area that uses similar colors. You can. Chapter 7: Adjusting Selections Pixelmator allows you to easily enhance your selections simply by moving, inverting, transforming, adding to or subtracting from them or using the Refine Selection Tool.

In addition, for more precision, selections can be edited in the Quick Mask mode. Enhancing Selections Once you have made a selection, you can improve it by moving, inverting, adding to the selection or subtracting from the selection. You can also use the Refine Selection tool to quickly smooth, feather and change the size of the selection.

For more precise selecting, you can use the Quick Mask mode. Move a Selection Border To move a selection border, position the pointer of the selected selection tool inside the selection border and drag to move the border. Tip: To move the selection by 1 pixel, use the arrow keys on your keyboard. To move the selection by 10 pixels, hold down the Shift key and use the arrow keys. Tip: Inverting a selection is very useful when cutting out objects that are placed on a solid color background.

Then you can copy or cut your object. There is also a Magic Eraser tool that can help you remove solid color background instantly by just clicking and dragging on it. Notice that the minus sign appears next to the mouse cursor so you know what the current selection mode is.

Add To Notice that a plus sign appears next to the mouse cursor so you always know what the current selection mode is. Transform Selection In addition to moving, inverting, addting to or subtracting from a selection border, you can also apply transformations to your selection.

To transform a selection: 1. Make a selection. Scale and rotate your selection using the Transform controls. For more information about Transforming, see Chapter 19 in this manual. Refine Selection Use the Refine Selection tool to make a smoother outline, to soften edges of a selection or even change the size of a selection.

To use the Refine Selection: 1. Make a selection using any of the selection tools. Adjust the Smooth slider to create a smoother outline, adjust the Feather slider to soften the edges of a selection, and if needed, adjust the Size slider to shrink or enlarge your selection edges.

Note: The preview that you see when using the Refine Selection tool is in a Quick Mask mode; red overlay area is not included within your selection while the clearly seen area is in your selection. Quick Mask mode helps you to better see how smooth the edges of your selection are. In the Quick Mask mode selection is converted to a temporary mask for easier editing. The Quick Mask appears as a red colored overlay and can be edited using any of the tools available in Pixelmator.

For example, you can feather your selection by adding Gaussian Blur to selection in the Quick Mask mode. Use any of the selection tools to select the part of your image you would like to edit. Click the Quick Mask mode button in the Tools palette or press Q on your keyboard. A red overlay appears which protects the area outside the selection. Note: Painting in black in Quick Mask mode will deselect painted areas while painting in white will select more of an image.

Painting with other colors in Quick Mask mode will create a semitransparent areas which are useful for feathering the selection. Semitransparent areas may not be visible once you exit the Quick Mask mode, but they are available.

Click the Normal mode button in the Tools palette to off the Quick Mask mode and see your selection. You can now make any further adjustments to your image.

Moving, Copying and Deleting Selected Areas Once you have made a selection, you can move, copy, delete, extract, add filters or adjust color of the area that is in the selection. Moving Selected Areas To move a selected area: 1. Select the Move Tool or press V on your keyboard. Copy a selection while dragging: To copy a selected area while dragging it, hold down the Option key and drag.

Move the mouse pointer inside the selection border and drag the selection area to a new position. Copying and Pasting Selected Areas Use the Copy and Paste commands to copy selected areas to other Pixelmator documents or even other applications. To copy a selected area: 1. Select the area you want to copy using any of the selection tools. Copy between applications: You can use Copy, Cut, or Paste commands to copy selected areas from Pixelmator images and paste them into other applications i.

Deleting Selected Areas You can use any of the selection tools to select objects in your images that you want to delete or cut. Painting tools in Pixelmator offer you the ability to use different brush sizes, shapes, advanced settings, and blending modes when painting. You can paint with Pixelmator as you would traditionally, play with beautiful gradients, or fill colors with other ones. With its advanced retouching tools, you can easily blur hard edges or sharpen fuzzy areas of your image.

Or you can paint with a sample of an image to remove wrinkles from faces or scratches in your photos. Chapter 9.

Chapter 9: Painting Tools Painting tools in Pixelmator offer you the ability to use different brush sizes, shapes, advanced brush settings, and blending modes when painting.

You can paint with Pixelmator as you would traditionally, play with beautiful gradients or fill colors with other ones.

The difference between the Pencil and Brush is that the Brush tool creates soft strokes of colors while the Pencil tool creates hardedged lines. Choose a foreground color. For more info about choosing colors, see Chapter 4. Select the Brush tool B to paint soft strokes or the Pencil tool P to paint hard-edged ones. Choose Brush presets from the Brushes palette. For more info about the Brush presets and Brushes palette, see Chapter For more information about the blending modes, see Chapter Using the Opacity setting in the Tool Options palette, you can set the transparency of the color you apply.

To set other percentages of opacity, adjust the opacity slider in the Pencil or Brush Tool Options palette. For more information about the Blending Modes see Chapter Drag in an image to paint. Draw a straight line: To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image; then Shift click an ending point. You can also drag in an image with the Shift key pressed to draw a straight line.

Eraser Tool The Eraser tool works just like a traditional drawing tool. Use Eraser tool to erase your images to transparency. Erase with the Eraser Tool To erase to transparency with the Eraser tool: 1. Select the Eraser tool E. Choose a Brush preset from the Brushes palette.

Choose a mode for the Eraser tool. Brush mode will erase using brush strokes, while Pencil tool mode will erase with hard-edged strokes. Drag an area in the image you want to erase. Erase a straight line: To erase a straight line, click a starting point in the image, then Shift click an ending point.

You can also drag in an image with the Shift key pressed to erase a straight line. Magic Eraser tool is different from that Eraser tool and is explained in later chapters in this manual. Select the Paint Bucket tool N. Choose a foreground color since Paint Bucket fills using that color. For more information about the blending modes see Chapter Set the Opacity in the Tool Options palette by adjusting the Opacity slider.

Check the Anti-alias checkbox in the Tool Options palette so that edges of the fill area are smooth. If the checkbox is unchecked, there will be hard edges around the fill area. Click the color in the image you want to fill and then slowly drag over it. As you drag, the filled area grows to include the contiguous area that has similar colors. Save, share, and export. Keyboard shortcuts. Table of Contents.

Start by exploring the highlights below. Get started with a photo Browse different locations on your device or open an image from the Photos library to start editing in Pixelmator Photo. Edit photos using machine learning-powered tools Use the machine-learning powered Enhance, Match Colors, Crop, Super Resolution, and Denoise tools to automatically improve light and color of a photo, match colors of one photo to another, get crop suggestions, reduce camera noise and compression artifacts, or increase resolution.

 
 

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Browse different locations on your device or open an image from the Photos library нажмите для деталей start editing in Pixelmator Photo. For more info and step-by-step instructions, see Open or import a photo. Use the machine-learning powered Enhance, Match Colors, Crop, Super Resolution, and Denoise tools to automatically improve light frew color of a photo, match colors of one photo to fre, get crop suggestions, reduce camera noise and compression artifacts, or increase resolution.

Retouch a photo with the Repair tool to нажмите чтобы перейти specks of dust, blemishes, and even entire objects by simply swiping over the area you want to repair.

For more info and step-by-step instructions, see Repair tool. Use the Crop tool to improve perspective, straighten, flip, and rotate photos, trim away unecessary areas, or try out ML Crop for automated crop suggestions. For more info and step-by-step instructions, see Crop tool. Transform the look of a photo by applying one of the many color adjustment presets designed by the Pixelmator Team.

Experiment with presets inspired pixelmator instruction manual free cinematic colors, analog photography, or if you\’re feeling inspired, create a custom preset collection of our own. For more info and step-by-step instructions, see Color adjustment presets. Apply edits to multiple images at a time with the easy-to-use batch workflows.

Enhance, rotate, crop, scale images, or add unique action combinations as your custom editing workflows. For more info and step-by-step instructions, see About batch editing. Save pixelmator instruction manual free edited frwe back to the Photos library or share them with others via AirDrop, Mail, or Messages. Export photos to other file formats and share them to other apps.

For more info and pixelmator instruction manual free instructions, see Save, share, and export. Pixelmator Photo User Guide. Quick Links What\’s new? Open a photo. Batch edit photos. Save, share, and export. Keyboard shortcuts. Table of Contents. Start by exploring the highlights below. Get started with a photo Browse different locations on your device or open an image from the Photos library to start editing in Pixelmator Photo.

Edit photos using plxelmator learning-powered tools Use the machine-learning powered Enhance, Match Colors, Crop, Super Resolution, and Denoise tools to automatically improve light and color of a photo, match colors of one photo to another, get crop suggestions, reduce camera noise and compression artifacts, or increase resolution. Remove unwanted objects Retouch a photo with the Repair tool to remove specks of dust, blemishes, and even entire objects by simply swiping over the area you want по этой ссылке repair.

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Apply a color adjustment preset Transform the look of a photo by applying one of the many color adjustment presets designed by the Pixelmator Team. Batch edit your photos Apply edits to ihstruction images at a time with the install anydesk for laptop batch workflows.

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