This icon is active on every screen and proves to be immensely useful when you are doing the application tour for the first time.Īt this stage I need to mention one thing: Pixelmator looks incredibly Apple-like. Edit button becomes useful when you want to target multiple images at the same time.Īnd the last but not least, question mark icon in the top right corner, which turns on-screen help overlays. You don’t actually need to use Edit icon, it is enough to tap and hold on the image to select it and you can then execute any action on it. By dragging one thumbnail onto another you can also create folders. Duplication is actually pretty handy, it allows you to create different edits of the same image. Toolbar (useful if we are deep down on the list and don’t any longer see the big white icon), the share icon (which only makes sense if you selected an image beforehand) and the Edit icon that makes all the image tiles wiggle and allows to remove or duplicate them. The remaining interface elements include a second instance of plus button visible on the to The Date/ Name switch allows to re-sort the images according to the last modification date or project name. The first white tile with the big plus icon is used to add a new image. The app, when launched, presents somewhat puristic welcome screen that contains the list of thumbnails representing active image projects. Somewhat puristic welcome screen of the application. Pixelmator is able to read and write JPEG, PNG and PSD multi-layer (Photoshop) file formats as well as native Pixelmator (PXM) file (eg. The app supports Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus and Intuos Creative Stylus 2 for painting and editing (for those having these styli). content-aware retouch brush were only working on iPad 4 or later, but 1.0.1 quickly fixed this inconvenience and now even owners of older iPad models can enjoy full functionality (albeit working slower due to intensive processing power needs). When Pixelmator 1.0 was released, some of the more advanced functionalities, eg. For this particular review iPad Air (1) was used, where application ran and felt very snappy (more on performance in the later section of the article). It supports iPad 2 and later models, however in order to get an optimum performance, iPad 4 or later is recommended. We can just hope that the company brings the iPhone version as well (I would personally prefer to do editing on my phone and not wait until I get home to pick the iPad). Pixelmator is currently the iPad-only application. We will briefly mention other app features, which make it an ideal candidate for an artist, however we will focus on the features that allow you to effectively and painlessly post-process your mobile photos. This review will examine the new Pixelmator iPad app from the mobile photographer’s point of view. Nonetheless everyone gasped in surprise, when on the 2014 Apple October event the Pixelmator team showed up on the stage and presented a brand new Pixelmator for iPad app utilizing the newest hardware and software capabilities available on iPad Air 2 running iOS 8. Pixelmator earned well-deserved reputation in the Mac community and was repeatedly getting rave reviews since the first version was released back in 2007. For the rest of us, who do not photoshop images for a living, a small company named Pixelmator Ltd created an editor that nicely fills the gap between the amateur photo tools usually found in the operating system and the professional tools like Photoshop. When it comes to image editing, there is one gold industry standard, that all the professionals use: Photoshop. Uncovering secrets of mobile image editing with Pixelmator for iPad
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