“Five years in the making, Pixelmator Pro debuted today with an all-new look and host of new features. The new interface eliminates visual clutter and anchors tools in side panels, so you always know where they are,” John Voorhees writes for MacStories. “Much of the app’s chrome has been eliminated too, putting your project in the spotlight where you can focus on it and not the app. It’s a modern, clean style that makes the app feel spacious and professional.”
“Pixelmator Pro adds a raft of features as well. Layer styles, color adjustments, and effects are all highly customizable, can be saved as presets, and shared,” Voorhees writes. “I’ve only had a little over 24 hours to put Pixelmator Pro through its paces, but based on my first impressions, it’s an impressive debut that I expect will replace the original version of the app as my go-to image editor.”
“Even when I’m just combining and resizing screenshots, there’s an unmistakable advantage to Pixelmator Pro over the original version. The Pro version is simply easier to use,” Voorhees writes. “There’s less clutter, I know where my tools are at all times, and it looks better, which for a tool that I will use many times each week, is worth the price.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pixelmator Pro is itself a work of art.
SEE ALSO:
Pixelmator Pro now available on Apple’s Mac App Store for $59.99 – November 29, 2017
Two quibbles:
I can’t seem to activate the Pixelmator Pro Photos app extension. How do you do this?
Second, I wish Pixelmator Pro would remember my window size and location. I have to resize it to maximum window size each time I open the app.
Judging from the trial version, also this version is on to the same annoying behavior that default saves are in the Pixelmator format, and not in the original image format. There might possibly be a defaults write to change this hidden somewhere…
The one window approach is not ideal when you want to work with multiple images side by side…
The trial crashed on me on the first image I opened.
Not a good sign.
Does it work as well and easy to use as Photoshop to fix old photos?
How does the Pro version differ from Pixelmator? I have Pixelmator and I’d like to know if it’s worth it for me to upgrade. I can’t find anything comparing features.