Pixelmator Pro Gets New Replace Image Feature, Additional Keyboard Shortcuts, Other Improvements

The Pixelmator Pro image editing application for macOS has been updated with a new Replace Image feature, additional keyboard shortcuts and other improvements.

Pixelmator Pro is an incredibly powerful, beautiful, and easy to use image editor designed exclusively for Mac. With a wide range of professional-grade, nondestructive image editing tools, Pixelmator Pro lets you bring out the best in your photos, create gorgeous compositions and designs, draw, paint, apply stunning effects, design beautiful text, and edit images in just about any way you can imagine. And thanks to its intuitive and accessible design, Pixelmator Pro is delightfully easy to use — whether you’re just starting out with image editing or you’re a seasoned pro.




What's New In This Version:
Pixelmator Pro 1.6.2 adds the ability to replace image layers while preserving nondestructive edits, brings a number of handy keyboard shortcuts, and includes a few other improvements and fixes.

• The new Replace Image feature adds a way to replace image layers while preserving all their layer styles, color adjustments, effects, and other nondestructive features.
• Quickly activate Replace Image using the Shift-Command-R keyboard shortcut.
• You can now create a mask from an image using the Choose Mask command in the Format menu.
• Format > Invert Colors will now invert the colors of image layers and masks without applying the nondestructive Invert adjustment.
• The Command-I keyboard shortcut has been reassigned from the Invert adjustment to the new Invert command.
• The Shift-Command-V keyboard shortcut will now insert a new layer from the Finder.
• The Option-Command-G keyboard shortcut will now create and release clipping masks.
• The Option-Command-comma (,) keyboard shortcut will now toggle layer visibility.
• Option-clicking Add Mask in the Layers sidebar shortcut menu will now add a mask that reveals all the contents of the masked layer instead of hiding everything.
• If you Option-click Add Mask with an active selection, the selected area will be hidden by the mask rather then everything outside the mask.
• Scroll bars will now always be visible when “Show scroll bars” is set to Always in System Preferences.
• The Motion blur effect will now use degrees (from 180º to -180º) as the unit instead of a percentage based on radians.
• The largest icons were missing from the Pixelmator Pro app icon set. Fixed.
• Certain layers would not appear after hiding and showing their parent group layers. Fixed.
• Opening very large documents would occasionally cause Pixelmator Pro to stop responding. Fixed.
• Control-clicking the layer mask in the Layers sidebar would not make the shortcut menu appear. Fixed.
• Rotating certain low-resolution images by 90 degrees would introduce blurring. Fixed.
• Drag and dropping images was not working correctly on Mac computers with Intel Iris graphics processors running macOS 10.15. Fixed.
• Solid white or solid black layer masks would not be preserved when exporting to PSD. Fixed.
• The color of text layers would shift slightly when exporting to PSD. Fixed.

Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? We’d love to hear from you at support@pixelmator.com!

You can purchase Pixelmator Pro from the App Store for $39.99.


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