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What’s new
- What is Pixelmator Pro?
- Pixelmator Pro interface
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- Create a new document
- Open a document
- Create from templates and mockups
- Save, name, and close documents
- Edit from the Photos app
- Intro to layers
- Create layers
- Replace an image layer
- Select layers
- Organize and manage layers
- Navigate layers in the canvas
- Use rulers, guides, and other canvas overlays
- Rasterize vector layers
- Work with video layers
- Generate an image from a text description
- Intro to selection tools
- Make intelligent selections
- Make geometric selections
- Select areas by drawing in the canvas
- Modify selections
- Intro to color adjustments
- Apply a color adjustment
- Selectively adjust clarity and texture
- Color grade an image
- Add stylized finishing effects
- Sharpen an image
- Apply color adjustment presets
- Apply LUTs
- Intro to automatic image editing
- Automatically increase image resolution
- Remove or hide an image background
- Automatically enhance image color
- Automatically match image colors
- Remove color banding in an image
- Automatically reduce image noise
- Automatically crop and straighten images
- Decontaminate image colors
- Add and manage effects
- Adjust effects
- Use effects presets
- Apply styles to layers
- Adjust the opacity of a layer
- Change the blend mode of a layer
- Add an outline around a layer
- Fill a layer with a color or gradient
- Add an inner shadow to a layer
- Add a drop shadow to a layer
- Use layer style presets
- Transform a layer
- Warp a layer
- Intro to retouching and reshaping
- Repair, remove, and clone objects in images
- Lighten or darken areas of an image
- Sharpen and soften areas of images
- Smudge an image
- Adjust color saturation in areas of an image
- Reshape areas of an image
- Intro to painting
- Paint and erase using brushes
- Paint and erase with the Pixel Paint tool
- Fill a layer or selection with color
- Fill specific areas of an image with color
- Fill a layer with a color gradient
- Erase similarly colored areas of an image
- Manage brushes
- Customize brush settings
- Draw vector shapes and graphics
- Combine shapes
- Draw shapes with the Pen tool
- Draw shapes with the Freeform Pen tool
- Generate custom shapes
- Edit vector paths
- Manage shapes and collections
- Add basic text
- Add text on a path
- Modify fonts
- Format text characters
- Change the color of text
- Align and space text
- Use text style presets
- Convert text into an outline
- Convert text into a shape or pixel layer
- Intro to masks
- Add and edit bitmap masks
- Add and edit vector masks
- Make a clipping mask
- Convert a selection to a mask
- Crop and straighten images
- Rotate or flip an image
- Trim the edges of the canvas
- Reveal parts of an image beyond the canvas
- Resize an image
- Change the canvas size
- About color management
- Change the color profile of an image
- Change the color depth of an image
- Use histograms
- Export photos, videos, and documents
- Export a document for the web
- Slice documents into individual image exports
- Quickly export or share an optimized image
- Print a document
- Use presets from your Mac on your iPad
- Use the Pixelmator Pro toolbar
- Pixelmator Pro tools
- Use color controls
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Customize the Tools sidebar
- About the Pixelmator Pro file format
- Supported media formats
- Work with RAW files
- About Pixelmator Pro sidecar files
- Use the Pixelmator Pro Photos extension
- Restore an earlier document version
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Pixelmator Pro tools

Pixelmator Pro has more than 40 tools for image editing, composition and layout, graphic design, digital painting, and illustration.

The quickest way to start using a tool is to select it from the Tools sidebar. If you don’t see a tool there, you may have to access it from a tool group, or add it to the Tools sidebar.

Basic tools

Tool	Description
Style	Add fills, strokes, and shadows to layers.
Arrange	Move, rotate, resize, or change the position of layers.
Color Adjustments	Access controls for basic photo editing.
Effects	Add visual effects to your document.
Zoom	Zoom in and out of an image.
Hand	Scroll or pan an image.
Crop	Crop and straighten images.
Export for Web	Prepare and export images for the web.
Color Picker	Sample colors from images.

Selection tools

For details, see Intro to selection tools in Pixelmator Pro.

Tool	Description
Rectangular Selection	Make rectangular selections.
Oval Selection	Make oval selections.
Row Selection	Make horizontal selections of a specified height.
Column Selection	Make vertical selections of a specified width.
Free Selection	Draw freehand selections.
Polygonal Selection	Draw polygonal selections.
Magnetic Selection	Make selections that snap to object edges.
Quick Selection	Quickly select anything by drawing over it.
Color Selection	Select similarly colored areas in an image.

Painting tools

For details, see Paint and erase with brushes in Pixelmator Pro.

Tool	Description
Paint	Paint with a wide array of brushes.
Pixel Paint	Paint using square pixel blocks.
Color Fill	Fill an entire layer, or part of one with a solid color.
Gradient Fill	Fill an entire layer, or part of one with a gradient.
Erase	Erase part of an image with brushes.
Smart Erase	Erase similarly colored areas of an image.

Retouching tools

For details, see Retouch and reshape layers in Pixelmator Pro.

Tool	Description
Repair	Remove small parts or entire objects from an image.
Clone	Copy one area of an image to another.
Sharpen	Sharpen part of an image.
Soften	Soften part of an image.
Smudge	Smudge part of an image like wet paint.
Lighten	Make part of an image lighter.
Darken	Make part of an image darker.
Saturate	Make color in part of an image more saturated.
Desaturate	Make color in part of an image less saturated.
Distort	Push and pull part of an image in any direction.
Bump	Make part of an image appear bulbous.
Pinch	Make part of an image appear to be squeezed.
Twirl	Rotate pixels in part of an image to look like a spiral.

Drawing tools

For details, see Draw shapes and vector graphics in Pixelmator Pro.

Tool	Description
Shape	Add a shape layer.
Pen	Draw vector lines or shapes by connecting anchor points.
Freeform Pen	Draw vector lines or shapes freehand.
Rectangle Rounded Rectangle Oval Polygon Star Line	Add a common shape from the Tools sidebar.

Type tools

For details see Add text in Pixelmator Pro.

Tool	Description
Type	Add text to a document.
Circular Type	Add text on circular path.
Path Type	Add text on a path drawn with anchor points.
Freeform Type	Add text on a freeform path.

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