Pixelmator Pro 3.5 Released With Full HDR Support

Pixelmator Pro 3.5 has been released, bringing full HDR support that lets you import, edit, and export HDR content, including HDR photos and videos taken with iPhone.

With over 50 image editing tools, Pixelmator Pro has everything you need to edit photos, draw illustrations, create designs, paint digital paintings, and be creative in just about any way you can imagine. Designed to be the ultimate Mac app, Pixelmator Pro has won multiple awards, including the Mac App of the Year awarded by Apple, and is one of the best-rated apps on the Mac App Store.




What's New In This Version:
Pixelmator Pro 3.5 brings full HDR support, letting you open, edit, and export images and videos with high dynamic range, adds support for macOS Sonoma, and includes a few smaller improvements and fixes.

Full HDR Support
• You can now take advantage of the full support for HDR content in Pixelmator Pro and enjoy better contrast and true-to-life colors in your images and videos.
• Open and edit images and videos in a wide range of different HDR file formats.
• Enjoy full support for HDR layers and edit them just like any other layers, using all your favorite tools and features in Pixelmator Pro.
• Share your edited designs using HDR image and video formats.

Supported HDR File Formats
• Open ISO HDR formats like HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, PNG, and TIFF.
• Work with popular video formats like MP4 and MOV, and video compression types such as HEVC and Apple ProRes that support HDR.
• Unlock the full dynamic range in photos and videos taken with iPhone.
• Seamlessly open and edit HDR images created using the Smart HDR feature in Photomator, as well as specialized HDR formats like OpenEXR, Radiance HDR, and 32-bit TIFFs from Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
• Effortlessly work with RAW or Apple ProRAW photos in HDR.
• To work with HDR content in Pixelmator Pro, your device must be running macOS Sonoma and be equipped with a compatible display. For the absolute best HDR editing experience, use Pro Display XDR or the latest MacBook Pro model with a Liquid Retina XDR display.

Seamless HDR Editing
• Use HDR content in multi-layered compositions and work with HDR layers just like any other layers.
• Work with selections or create new documents from the Clipboard keeping all the HDR data.
• Keep all the HDR data intact, even when you merge layers or convert RAW images into pixels.
• Choose to always load HDR content or open images in SDR in Pixelmator Pro settings.
• Enjoy HDR support everywhere in Pixelmator Pro, including thumbnails in the Layers sidebar, color adjustment presets, effect presets, the Zoom tool, and more.


HDR Content Sharing and Export
• Export your designs to a wide range of HDR image formats including HDR JPEG, HDR HEIC, HDR AVIF, and HDR PNG.
• For publishing HDR images on the web or sharing in Messages, use the one-of-a-kind HDR Still Image Video format.
• Share moving compositions to HDR video formats like MP4 and MOV with HEVC or Apple ProRes video compression.
• Export HDR images for editing in other apps using specialized HDR formats like OpenEXR.

Streamlined macOS Integration
• Edit images in HDR using the Pixelmator Pro extension in Photos.
• Make the most of HDR support with Shortcuts and AppleScript and apply edits to multiple HDR images at once.
• View HDR previews of your saved Pixelmator Pro documents in Quick Look.

Other Improvements and Fixes
• Pixelmator Pro is now fully compatible with macOS Sonoma, taking advantage of the latest macOS capabilities.
• Enjoy faster and smoother performance and better compatibility with many file formats, including Motion projects.
• When saving new documents, Pixelmator Pro would sometimes suggest an incorrect save location. Fixed.

You can purchase Pixelmator Pro from the App Store for $24.99.

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