Pixelmator Pro gains Light mode, Automator batch processing, auto-enhancements more

Pixelmator Pro for Mac, a powerful Photoshop alternative, has been updated on Mac App Store this morning time amongst sum back upwards for the latest macOS Mojave 10.14 software. Code-named “Quicksilver,” the app packs inwards a beautiful novel Light appearance augmenting its default darkened interface, plus other perks similar machine learning-based automatic photograph enhancement, the might to batch-process your images inwards Apple’s Automator app, as well as more.

Key highlights

With sum back upwards for macOS Mojave, yous tin at nowadays create things similar role colorful SVG fonts—check out the Gilbert Color font included amongst the update—and accept payoff of Mojave’s cool Continuity Camera characteristic which lets yous accept a photograph amongst your iOS device’s photographic television set camera as well as conduct keep it at 1 time appear inwards the Pixelmator Pro document you’re editing.

Pixelmator Pro made its debut featuring a dramatically darkened one-window interface similar to many other pro apps. Now that the app includes a novel Light appearance every bit well, it automatically adapts to Mojave’s Light/Dark appearances.

The gorgeous novel Light interface inwards Pixelmator Pro

You tin alter Pixelmator Pro’s appearance whatever fourth dimension inwards its preferences.

TUTORIAL: How to enable Dark Mode on Mac

The interface inwards this edition of Pixelmator Pro to a greater extent than closely matches the aspect of macOS inwards Light/Dark mode. As a bonus, the app at nowadays supports Mojave’s Accent Color feature. As a result, changing your accent color inwards System Preferences → General → Accent Color automatically applies the selected tint color to the app’s buttons as well as sliders.

TUTORIAL: How to adjust the accent color on your Mac

If you’ve e'er wanted to adjust the color of the window background inwards Pixelmator Pro, yous tin create that every bit good yesteryear venturing into the app’s preferences. ML Enhance, around other novel characteristic powered yesteryear Apple’s Core ML framework, taps into a machine learning algorithm trained on millions of professional person photos to automatically amend the aspect of your images.

Here’s ML Enhance inwards action.

To speed upwards tedious tasks as well as amend your productivity, Pixelmator Pro actions are at nowadays available inwards Apple’s Automator app. This lets yous batch-process a bunch of images at 1 time yesteryear applying color adjustments, effects, white residual as well as to a greater extent than to your photos.

Pixelmator Pro 1.2 for macOS changelog

Here’s everything new, improved as well as fixed inwards this edition of Pixelmator Pro:

New features

• Pixelmator Pro is at nowadays fully compatible amongst macOS Mojave.


• A gorgeous novel low-cal appearance lets yous sense Pixelmator Pro inwards a whole novel way—change appearance whatever fourth dimension inwards Pixelmator Pro preferences.


• Use ML Enhance to automatically amend the aspect of whatever photograph using a machine learning algorithm trained on millions of professional person photos.


• Batch procedure images using v powerful Pixelmator Pro actions inwards the Automator app: Apply Color Adjustments to Images, Apply Effects to Images, Auto Enhance Images, Auto White Balance Images as well as Change Type of Images.


• Create fifty-fifty richer, to a greater extent than vibrant graphics as well as designs amongst colorful SVG fonts—the Gilbert Color font is included amongst this update.


• Thanks to back upwards for the Continuity Camera, yous tin at nowadays accept pictures using your iPhone as well as conduct keep them at 1 time appear inwards the Pixelmator Pro document you’re editing.

Improvements

• The Pixelmator Pro interface has been refined to to a greater extent than closely fit the aspect of macOS inwards both Light as well as Dark mode.


• Accent color back upwards agency the buttons as well as sliders inwards Pixelmator Pro volition at nowadays fit your preferences.


• You tin at nowadays alter the color of the Pixelmator Pro window background inwards Pixelmator Pro preferences.


• The Pixel Paint tool at nowadays has an Eraser Mode.

Fixes

• After hiding as well as showing the Pixelmator Pro Tool Options pane, certainly buttons would non last updated when using the Arrange tool. Fixed.


• When scrolling within the brush size text champaign to resize the retouching as well as distort tools, the ratio betwixt the brush size as well as scroll speed was incorrect. Fixed.


• When opening images amongst no PPI information, the PPI volition at nowadays last laid at 72 yesteryear default, rather than 150.


• Closing a document piece using the Quick Selection tool would occasionally crusade Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.


• The Color Selection tool was non working correctly inwards all images. Fixed.

The update is available to existing users at no additional charge.

Pixelmator Pro is a $29.99 download from App Store.

The less-capable version, named but Pixelmator, is a $14.99 download from Mac App Store.

Pixelmator for iPhone as well as iPad is priced at $1.99.

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