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Pixelmator

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Developer(s)
  
Pixelmator Team Ltd.

Operating system
  
macOS & iOS

Development status
  
Active

Type
  
Raster graphics editor

Initial release
  
September 25, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-09-25)

Stable release
  
macOS Sierra: 3.6 (November 15, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-11-15)) iOS: 2.3 (July 19, 2016; 7 months ago (2016-07-19))

Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for macOS by Lithuanian brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide, and built upon a combination of open source and macOS technologies. Pixelmator features selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools; as well as layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and a transparent head-up display user interface for work with images. Pixelmator uses Core Image and OpenGL technologies that use the Mac's video card for image processing.

Pixelmator was the first commercial image editor to fully support the WebP image format on Mac.

Features

  • Uses technologies like Core Image and Automator.
  • Based on ImageMagick
  • Photoshop images with layers are supported as well as other popular still image file formats.
  • Uses layers-based editing.
  • Over 40 tools for selecting, cropping, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation.
  • Shape tools.
  • 16 color correction tools and over 50 filters.
  • Integrates with macOS and applications such as iPhoto and Aperture.
  • Pictures can be taken with an iSight camera from within the app.
  • Quick file conversion can be done with the help of Automator actions.
  • macOS ColorSync and ColorSync profiles are supported.
  • Support for Mac OS X Lion features such as versions, auto save, and full screen mode.

    • References

    Pixelmator Wikipedia
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