Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for

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by Lithuanian brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide, and built upon a combination of

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

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

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user interface for work with images. Pixelmator uses

Core Image Core Image is a pixel-accurate, near-realtime, non-destructive image processing technology in Mac OS X. Implemented as part of the QuartzCore framework of Mac OS X 10.4 and later, Core Image provides a plugin-based architecture for applying filt ...

and

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technologies that use the Mac's video card for image processing. Pixelmator was the first commercial image editor to fully support the

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image format on Mac.

Features

* Uses technologies like

and Automator. *

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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

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and Aperture. * Pictures can be taken with a

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camera from within the app. * Quick file conversion can be done with the help of Automator actions. * macOS

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and ColorSync profiles are supported. * Support for

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features such as versions, auto save, and full screen mode. *Compatibility with

MacOS Catalina macOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. It is the successor to macOS Mojave and was announced at WWDC 2019 on June 3, 2019 and released to the publ ...

, including support for Sidecar (a dual-screen tool for

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users) and

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as of version 1.5 (released October 10, 2019).

Version history

Pixelmator for Mac

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Features

Version history

Pixelmator for Mac

See also

References

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