Pixelmator Pro for Mac gains Portrait and clipping masks, comic book effects more

The pop Photoshop choice Pixelmator today updated Pixelmator Pro for macOS on Mac App Store alongside a bunch of novel features, including back upward for Portrait Masks that lets y'all opened upward your depth-of-filed photos together alongside a layer mask.

Pixelmator Pro 1.3.1 also brings a novel comic-book vogue effects too includes a publish of useful novel keyboard shortcuts. Here’s a tutorial video from Pixelmator explaining the procedure of replacing the background inward a Portrait photo.

The app at nowadays opens images inward tabs yesteryear default too remembers your window size too seat for all novel documents. Developers discussed layer tagging, filtering too search inward a blog post.

In Pixelmator Pro 1.3 ‘Prism’, y'all tin at nowadays apply colored layer tags to layers, search the layer list, too filter it out according to layer type too layer tag. These novel features larn inward much easier to larn approximately the layer listing inward compositions alongside lots of objects too they hold off pretty darn swell to boot. We’ve created a few quick tips to help y'all larn started alongside using them, too thus move sure enough to banking venture check them out!

Plus, this tidbit on clipping masks:

Clipping masks allow y'all create perfect masks from existing layers inward your Pixelmator Pro documents with only a click. This is a truly handy characteristic for anyone working on all kinds of designs too illustrations. It mightiness seem a niggling surprising but this characteristic truly took yesteryear far the longest to prepare too test.

And at that spot aren’t all that many picture editing apps out at that spot (other than Photoshop) that direct maintain proper clipping masks—the argue why is just because it’s nowhere most every bit elementary every bit it looks.

But we’re truly happy alongside the labor we’ve done and, inward Pixelmator Pro, y'all tin effortlessly create clipping masks from whatever layer inward your image. That includes grouping layers too nested shapes! Plus, y'all tin also utilisation whatever of the nondestructive effects on both the mask layer too the create total layer, too thus everything is super flexible.

And alongside additional keyboard shortcuts, y'all tin speedily create things similar select, organize too duplicate layers, press the slash (/) fundamental to speedily lock too unlock layers, too much more.

Pixelmator Pro 1.3.1 changelog

Here’s everything new, improved too fixed inward Pixelmator Pro 1.3.1.

New features

• Thanks to Portrait Mask support, Pixelmator Pro volition at nowadays opened upward photos taken inward Portrait vogue on iOS 12 together alongside a layer mask.
• Pixelmator Pro volition at nowadays ever utilisation tabs yesteryear default too recall your window size too seat for all novel documents.
• Use the novel Comics trial to speedily apply a comic book-style to whatever picture — y'all tin respect this trial inward the Stylize category.
• A publish of novel keyboard shortcuts larn inward easier to select, organize, too duplicate layers.
• Press the Slash (/) fundamental to speedily lock too unlock layers.
• Option-Left bracket ([) too Option-Right bracket (]) allow y'all select i layer upward too down.
• Option-Comma (,) too Option-Period (.) allow y'all select the summit too bottom layer.
• Option-Arrow volition at nowadays duplicate layers too motion them yesteryear 1 pixel. Option-Shift-Arrow volition duplicate too motion yesteryear 10 pixels.
• Option-clicking a layer’s visibility icon volition at nowadays enshroud all other layers.

Improvements

• Zoom functioning improvements speed upward zooming inward documents alongside many layers.
• Pressing the Return fundamental piece drawing a path volition at nowadays closed the path.
• Converting text to shape is at nowadays much (much) faster.
• The Repair tool progress bar volition no longer move shown when making quick, pocket-sized repairs.
• The Brightness adjustment is at nowadays to a greater extent than precise inward images alongside extreme tonal ranges.
• Previously, the Channel Mixer used our perceptual color model to brand prettier adjustments. Since it’s to a greater extent than of a functional adjustment rather than a creative one, it at nowadays mixes channels purely mathematically.
• Changing the rulers’ rootage volition at nowadays update the grid to tally the novel rulers.
• Pressing too asset the Shift fundamental piece changing the rulers’ rootage volition at nowadays snap it to the grid too objects inward your composition.
• When y'all add together a new, untagged layer to a tagged group, it volition move assigned the group’s color tag.
• Attempting to utilisation the Color Fill or Gradient Fill tools on text or shape layers volition at nowadays create an empty novel layer too create total that instead of doing zip at all.
• Added an Add Guide ascendence to the View menu’s Guides submenu.
• Whenever possible, Pixelmator Pro volition attempt to save the font human face upward when changing font family.
• Improved compatibility alongside sure enough kinds of text layers inward Photoshop documents. 

Fixes

• Pixelmator Pro was performing slow inward the latest version of macOS on sure enough 2016, 2017 too 2018 Mac computers. This version includes a workaround alongside a fix.
• Due to novel font smoothing introduced inward macOS 10.14, fonts were thicker on 10.14 than 10.13. Fixed.
• When dragging & dropping text presets, the preview was incorrect. Fixed.
• Holding the Z fundamental to select the Zoom tool would brand Pixelmator Pro beep inappropriately. It’s at nowadays much ameliorate behaved.
• Layers would incorrectly snap to grids based on non-pixel units. Fixed.
• New documents created from text or shape layers inward the clipboard would non move correctly aligned to the canvas. Fixed.
• After dragging to rearrange parts of text inside a text layer, changes would move undone incorrectly. Fixed.
• Pixelmator Pro workflows inward the Automator app were non working correctly when RAW files would move automatically converted to Pixelmator Pro format using the Auto Enhance action. Fixed.
• The colors inward the Color Picker preview did non correctly tally the document’s colors. Fixed. 
• When changing font family, the previous font’s elevate would sometimes briefly flicker inward the menu. Fixed.
• On macOS Mojave, tab titles would sometimes overlap. Fixed.
• On macOS High Sierra, text inward the About window was the wrong color. Fixed.

The update is available costless to the existing users.

The iOS edition of Pixelmator was refreshed yesterday alongside back upward for the novel 2018 iPad Pro display sizes, the double-tap gesture for Apple Pencil two and other perks.

Pixelmator Pro is a $39.99 download from App Store.

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