O Pixelmator Pro just got a new version (3.3), which brings a powerful color removal feature, as well as clarity and texture adjustments to intelligently enhance fine details, as well as new stroke styles, among others.
Check out the details of these news below!
color remover
With this new feature, you can easily get rid of solid colors or full color bands in images. Just pick the color you want to remove using the eyedropper and watch it disappear.
The novelty also works on videos, allowing you to remove the green background easily, as shown in the video below.
The feature works intelligently on any compression artifact in images/videos, making it possible to create exceptionally smooth and very high quality transitions between transparent and opaque areas.
color adjustments
After their debut in Pixelmator Photo 2.2, Clarity, Selective Clarity, and Texture adjustments are coming to Pixelmator Pro—as well as improved Shadows, Highlights, Exposure, and Brightness settings.
- Clarity and Texture: New tweaks let you enhance fine details in images in subtle ways. By increasing texture, you can make details appear sharper and more focused, and increasing clarity will make images clearer and more defined.
- selective clarity: Lets you adjust the clarity and texture in the shadows, midtones, or highlights of an image. While clarity and texture are typically used to bring out more detail in images, you can also use these adjustments to create the opposite effect.
- Shadows and Highlight Recovery: When adjusting shadows or highlights, only the darkest and lightest areas of the image will be affected, leaving the midtones untouched.
Stroke Styles
The new version also adds a variety of new stroke styles and even more options for customizing them, allowing you to create contours on videos, images and shapes.
When adjusting strokes, you can now change stroke edge and corner styles, choose from a variety of new points, change stroke position, create custom-spaced dashed lines, and much more.
Plus, you can fill strokes with your own patterns — and save them for easy reuse in other projects.
Secondary files
Finally, Pixelmator Pro now lets you open and edit images directly in their original format and save them back in the same format with a so-called secondary file — a special type of document that is attached to the original image and stores all your edits in elsewhere on your Mac or iCloud.
Unlike regular files, which can only be opened using Pixelmator Pro, side files can be easily shared online or opened in other applications without having to export them first.
As always, great news!
