Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
With tons of new features and improvements, the next generation of Pixelmator — codenamed Chameleon — is clearly the best Pixelmator ever built.
The Pixelmator team has posted a sneak preview of Pixelmator 2, which features:
• Look and Feel: Handcrafted to the very last detail specifically for working with images, the new user interface of the app is as beautiful to look at as it is easy-to-use.
• Drawing Tools: Enjoy perfectly precise, full-featured drawing tools that allow you to easily create and edit any vector shapes, whether simple or advanced.
• Shapes: Use the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line or Custom Shape tools to quickly add shape layers to your compositions.
• Healing Tool: Paint with the new Healing Tool on objects or any other details in an image to magically remove them, as if they never existed. Watch the video here.
• Content-Aware Fill: Take advantage of a breakthrough technology that helps magically get rid of unwanted elements in images.
• Smudge Tool: Use the new Smudge Tool to smear paint, or to rub out blemishes or any other details in your images, as realistically as if you were using your fingers.
• Sponge Tool: Paint using any brush tip either to add more color to or to take color away from objects, details or any other areas of an image.
• Burn Tool: Use the Burn Tool to naturally darken specific areas of an image—whether in the highlights, midtones or shadows range for a given area.
• Dodge Tool: Use the Dodge Tool to naturally lighten specific areas of an image—whether in the highlights, midtones or shadows range for a given area.
• Red Eye Tool: Use the Red Eye Tool to easily—either automatically or manually—get rid of the red-eye effect in your images.
• Pixel Tool: Enjoy editing images at the pixel level by taking advantage of the hard-edged, pixel-precise, pixel art-type Pixel Tool.
• New Eyedropper Tool: Use the new magnifying Eyedropper Tool to efficiently snap colors from an image to use as needed.
• Info Bar: The new Info Bar provides you with the most useful information required at a specific moment, depending on the tool in use.
• Tools Customization: Make the app truly personal by adding, removing, arranging, even grouping tools in the fully customizable Tools palette.
• Tool Options Bar: Enjoy the new contextual Tool Options bar, which shows the exact set of tool settings needed at the moment, depending on the tool in use.
• New Type Tool: In addition to easily placing and formatting text on your images, now also enjoy advanced typography features.
…and much more
Pixelmator 2 will be available later this summer via the Mac App Store as a free upgrade for everyone who purchased any version of Pixelmator via the Mac App Store.
For now, anyone who doesn’t have the app can purchase the currently available version of Pixelmator on the Mac App Store for $29 and receive a free upgrade of Pixelmator 2.0 once it is released.