Color Adjustment effects in Pixelmator Pro on Mac
Pixelmator Pro includes Color Adjustment effects to modify colors, brightness, and contrast, and to create stylized color treatments:
Exposure Adjust brightens or darkens the entire image using EV (exposure value).
Color Controls adjusts saturation, brightness, and contrast of your image.
Hue Adjust shifts all colors along the color spectrum using an angle wheel to control where in the spectrum the shift occurs.
Color Monochrome converts to monochrome with color picker options.
Sepia Tone maps colors to various shades of brown.
False Color recolors images using a color picker to define highlight and shadow color.
Gradient Map replaces image colors with colors from a selected gradient.
Invert inverts all image colors to appear negative.
Threshold converts colors to high-contrast black and white.
Color Adjustments effect controls
Color Adjustment effects have the following adjustment controls in the Effects pane. You can access the controls after applying an effect to a layer or adding an effects layer.
Control | Used in these effects | Description |
|---|---|---|
Saturation | Color Controls | Drag this slider to make colors more or less intense. At 0%, the image becomes black and white. |
Brightness | Color Controls | Drag this slider to the right to make colors brighter, or to the left to make colors darker. |
Contrast | Color Controls | Drag this slider to increase or decrease contrast. |
Angle | Hue Adjust | Drag in this wheel to shift all colors along the color spectrum. |
EV | Exposure Adjust | Drag this slider to make the entire image brighter or darker, simulating camera exposure changes. |
Color | Color Monochrome | Click the color well to choose a tint color. |
Intensity | Color Monochrome, Sepia Tone | Drag this slider to control the strength of the effect. |
Color 0 | False Color | Click the color well to choose the color for shadows and darkest areas of the image. |
Color 1 | False Color | Click the color well to choose the color for highlights and the brightest areas of the image. |
Threshold | Threshold | Drag this slider to the left to add white to the black-and-white mix. Drag it to the right to add black to the black-and-white mix. |
Gradient well | Gradient Map | Click the gradient well to select a gradient preset. |
Color stops | Gradient Map | Drag these handles to adjust the gradation of the gradient. You can click in the gradient bar to add more color stops. |
Opacity | Gradient Map | Drag this slider to adjust the transparency of the effect. |
Blend mode | Gradient Map | Click |