What's New in Version 2.1

Pixelmator 2.1 is a major update introducing several new features and improvements, including the following:

• Retina-Ready: Both Pixelmator’s friendly user interface and its powerful image editing engine are now optimized for the Retina display.
• iCloud: Built right into the app and keeps your Pixelmator work up to date across all your Macs.
• Effects Browser: The best and the most fun way to browse: instantly preview and quickly apply special effects or add color adjustments to images.
• New Effects: Use the new Vintage, Miniaturize, Black and White, Rain, and Snow effects.
• Alignment Guides: Quickly position, align, and evenly distribute objects in your Pixelmator compositions with pinpoint accuracy.
• OS X Mountain Lion Support: Pixelmator takes full advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
• And much more.

What's New in Version 2.0.5

This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of issues, including the following:

• Improved support for Intel graphics cards
• Pixelmator can now be used as an external editor in iPhoto and Aperture
• Addresses a problem that sometimes caused an inability to save or export files
• And much more

What's New in Version 2.0.4

This update enables sandboxing for OS X Lion and improves overall stability.

What's New in Version 2.0.3

This update improves overall stability and performance, including the following:

• Improves the performance of the Move Tool
• Fixes memory leaks
• Fixes a situation where performance would degrade over time
• Fixes issues with Export for Web
• Fixes a problem that caused corrupt PXM files
• And much more

What's New in Version 2.0.2

This update improves overall stability and adds a number of minor improvements.

Included in Version 2.0

Pixelmator 2.0 introduces a new interface, making Pixelmator even easier to use. This version also includes the following:
• Expanded set of tools now features new Healing, Smudge, Burn, Dodge, Sponge, Red Eye, Pixel and Shape tools
• New Type Tool extends the range of options for working with text
• Pixelmator now has an Info Bar that displays context-specific information for richer image editing
• A new Tool Options bar allows for quick custom settings as you use each tool
• The Tools palette can now be resized and fully customized to show the tools you use most
• Shadows and Highlights added to the suite of color correction tools
• Support for OS X Lion features, including Auto Save, Versions and Full Screen
• Numerous other enhancements and upgrades throughout

What's New in Version 2.0.1

• German, French, and Japanese languages added
• Bug fixes and improvements

What's New in Version 2.0

• New look and feel
• Drawing Tools and Shapes
• Healing Tool with Content-aware fill
• Smudge, Sponge, Burn, Dodge, Eyedropper, Pixel, and Red Eye Tools
• New Type Tool
• Complete OS X Lion Support
• And much more...

What's New in Version 1.6.7

Improves compatibility with the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

What's New in Version 1.6.6

Improves compatibility with the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

What's New in Version 1.6.5

• Subtract blending mode
• Divide blending mode
• Bug fixes

New Features

• Major performance improvements
• 64-Bit support
• Layer Groups
• Send to Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook
• Import directly from cameras, scanners, multifunction devices, and devices such as iPhone and iPad
• New transforming tools
• New printing engine
• Trim Images and Watermark Images Automator Actions
• Deeper Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard integration

Improvements

• Open Recent button added to the Welcome Screen
• iSight support improved
• Ruler performance improved
• Progress bar added when saving larger files
• Edit in Quick Mask mode added to the Edit menu
• Alpha pixels are now properly supported by clipping masks
• New cursors for Hand and Zoom tools added
• Ability to reset pallete locations by pressing Command + Shift + R added
• Gradient pallete is now separated from Brushes palette and can be shown or hidden by pressing the Command + 4 keyboard shortcut
• Layers palette contextual menu improved
• Appearance of type layer thumbnails improved
• License menu item will not appear if the application is already licensed
• Fit Images Automator action now includes the ability to proportionally scale images
• German, French, and Japanese localizations updated
• Minor user interface improvements added
• Help in-app documentation updated

Corrected Bugs

• A bug that caused incorrect palettes size and position
• A bug that caused Eyedropper to move by 1 pixel when picking color
• A bug that caused Gradients palette not to resize when gradients removed
• A bug that caused the Hand tool not to work correctly after Tab shortcut is pressed
• A bug that sometimes caused some palettes to disappear
• A bug that sometimes caused objects to disappear when using Distort transform
• A bug that caused filters not to load after using the Replace Color function
• A bug that caused Clipping Mask to work incorrectly after editing layer’s mask
• A bug that caused clipping layers not to show up after the main layer is hidden

New Features

• Brushes collections

Improvements

• Once launched, the app will ask whether to move itself directly to the Applications folder (thanks for inspiration on this to Potion Factory’s The Hit List and Delicious Library from Delicious Monster).
• Old Automator Resize Images action is replaced by new Fit Images and Crop Images actions.
• Untitled document numeration is now according to Apple HIG.
• You can now drag the Welcome screen by clicking anywhere on it.
• It is now possible to Quit, Hide, or to use the Show All command when the Welcome screen is launched.
• You can change the background color of the work area by right-clicking on an area outside the canvas and choosing white, grey, or black.
• Dock menu now includes New from Clipboard command.
• All the app’s localizations have been updated.
• A newly created document does not show that it is unsaved on window close button (according to Apple Human Interface Guidelines).
• Disabled checkboxes have been added to UI.
• A beep has been removed when you are choosing a color from Apple Color Picker Developer palette.
• Automator actions are now compatible with Snow Leopard.
• Pixelmator now works properly as an external editor for iPhoto.
• Clipboard content is now pasted into the center of the viewable canvas area.
• Guide tooltips are now count-based on the ruler’s zero origin.
• Minor Undo improvements (especially for when you are painting) have been made.
• When opening larger size images than the screen image will accommodate fit in window.
• PXM file format now preserves EXIF, IPTC, and other original metadata.
• Some unnecessary console logs have been removed.
• Layer linking is now preserved when exporting to PSD.
• Minor user interface improvements have been added.
• Help documentation has been updated.

Corrected Bugs

• A bug that sometimes caused ruler measurements to show incorrectly
• A bug that caused borderless printing not to work correctly
• A bug that caused rulers to flicker when you are drawing with the tablet
• A bug that caused some anomalies in the canvas area when the app is launched with the Clone Stamp tool selected
• A bug that caused issues when in full-screen mode, but with two images open
• A bug that caused commas and dots not allowed for Image Size width, height, and resolution fields
• A bug that sometimes caused incorrect percentages to show in Image Size sheet
• A bug that caused the Brushes contextual menu to use an inappropriate amount of CPU power
• A bug that sometimes caused an inability to drag and drop photos from Photo Browser
• Clone Stamp’s Sample All Layers feature now works properly
• A crash that occurred when you were using Developer color palette in Apple Color Picker within the Fill command
• A possible crash that could happen when closing documents

New Features

• Save for Web
• Slice Tool
• Trim
• Reveal All command
• Info Labels indicate: elliptical and rectangular selection size; Magic Eraser, Magic Wand, Paint Bucket tolerance level; Eyedropper color (when clicked and dragged); Crop, slice, and transformation dimensions; Gradient tool angle and radius; and guide position
• New File Info sheet
• New Export sheet
• New Image Size sheet
• New Canvas Size sheet
• Send to Mail and iPhoto
• Italian language
• Web Colors plug-in for Apple Color Picker (automatically installed on launch of Pixelmator 1.5)
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard support

Improvements

• PSD, PDF, layered TIFF, and images from iPhoto Library will now open as new documents
• Double-clicking a Painting tool opens the Brushes palette
• Double-clicking Gradient tool opens the Gradients palette
• Edit menu bar items are enabled when entering a license code
• Welcome screen improved
• Creator type is now set for PXM documents only
• German, French, and Spanish localizations updated
• Minor user interface improvements added
• Help documentation updated

Corrected Bugs

• A bug that caused incorrect Levels and Curves histogram when layer opacity is lower than 100%
• A crash that occurred when opening some TIFF documents
• A crash that occurred when printing some small images

New Features

• Select Color (Range) Tool
• Japanese localization

Improvements

• Eyedropper allows users to choose a color from an image in the Select Color and Replace Color tools
• Levels and Curves histogram
• Type Tool improvements
• Type Tool blinker now looks nicer at various zoom levels
• Type layer selecting using Type Tool
• Type Tool support for specific OpenType symbols
• Type Tool shadow
• German, French, and Spanish localizations
• Help documentation

Corrected Bugs

• A bug that caused the menubar not to appear in full-screen mode
• A bug that sometimes caused filters to show incorrect previews
• A crash that occurred when loading the type layer as a selection
• A crash that occurred when copying a selection when no layer is selected
• A crash that occurred when quitting the application after using the transform tools
• A crash that occurred when closing the document window when the About window is open

Major Performance Improvements Added...

• Overall UI responsiveness
• Opening and saving images
• Zooming in and out
• Adjustment tools used when working with large images
• Filters utilized when working with large images
• Transform tools used when working with large images
• Fullscreen mode
• Rulers
• Selection tools
New Features Added...

• Magic Eraser (a.k.a. Instant Alpha, click-and-drag tool)
• Magic Wand (now a click-and-drag tool with an anti-aliasing ability)
• Paint Bucket (now a click-and-drag tool with an anti-aliasing ability)
• New Hue and Saturation
• New Replace Color
• New Colorize

• Smart palette hide
• Action tooltips
• French and Spanish languages
Improvements Made To...

• Cursor updating
• Zoom preview in all zoom levels (smoother)
• Zoom in/out algorithms in fullscreen mode
• Pixelmator license for multiple accounts and network users
• Serial number field
• Stroke anti-aliasing
• Overall Type tool functionality
• Ability to draw text box
• Type layer name will match the layer content
• Double-click on Type layer will select the Type tool and type layer content
• Contextual menu for Type tool added
• Type tool cursors
• Ability to drag Type layer onto desktop
• Ability to edit type layer’s content without selecting content
• Text size in points understands image dpi
• Hand tool performance when working in fullscreen mode
• Ruler units changes in Preferences (immediately accepted for rulers)
• Layer and Photo Browser palettes (will now save their position after application restart)
• View menu (now active when using Transform tools)
• Layer thumbnail redrawing (now faster)
• Foreground or background color (will not change when changing color in filters or adjustments)
• Ability not to assign any profile to an image
• Levels and Curves histogram
• Moving guides
• iSight support (higher resolution capturing is now possible)
• Main window transparency
• Fill palette
• PXM compression
• PSD compatibility
• User Interface (minor)
• Help documentation
• Many, many more tiny improvements
Bugs Corrected That Caused...

• Inaccurate Curves and Color Balance previews on some MacBooks and MacBook Airs
• Blinking cursors
• Inability to drag a layer after using constrained crop
• Incorrect window focus when using modal palettes
• Beeps after Tab shortcut is pressed
• Problems with layer mask linking
• Auto Select working incorrectly when using the Cmd shortcut
• Temporary content removal when using the Move tool
• Eyedropper Tool Options palette going crazy in some situations
• Inability to move layers using keyboard shortcuts
• White transparent checkerboard appearing after making a clipping mask
• Spot color and Spot light filter problems
• A crash sometimes occurring when using New Layer from the iSight feature if iSight is unavailable
• Other tiny bug fixes
Keyboard Shortcuts Added...

• Shift + Move tool will cause a straight move
• Esc or Enter (keypad) will commit Type tool changes • Better Stroke with live preview

<p><b>New features added...</b></p>

• Live Gradient tool...<br />
• Now works with two clicks<br />
• Its icon in the Tools palette now shows the selected gradient<br />
• Now paints a straight or 45° line if Shift is pressed<br />
• Its contextual menu allows users to choose gradients quickly<br />
• Users can now transform the selection border (via Contextual Menu > Transform Selection)<br />
• The Hue/Saturation tool now includes improved hue settings

<p><b>Bug Corrected That Caused...</b></p>

• Export feature problems with permissions<br />
• Automator not saving workflow settings<br />
• Crashing in gradients with more than 20 color stops<br />
• Reset button not working correctly in the Gradient editor<br />
• Window focus disappearing after editing the gradient<br />
• Incorrect alignment of layer mask after using Canvas Size<br />
• Minor problems with accepting transform changes<br />
• Incorrect cursor showing when dragging the selection using the Lasso tool<br />
• Wrong transform tools view after using Crop<br />
• Print problems in German localization

<p><b>Problems Fixed...</b></p>

• Natural sorting of photos in the Photo Browser<br />
• Software Update window relocation<br />
• More precise Transform tools <br />
• OSX-style Window Zoom button behavior <br />
• German localization improvements<br />
• Removal of SVG file format support (due to incompatibility problems)

<p><b>Improvements Made To...</b></p>

• Tiff compatibility<br />
• Move and Crop tool icons (now more visible)<br />
• The Gradient editor (When creating a new gradient in the Gradients palette, the Gradient editor will show the settings of any selected gradient instead of the white gradient)<br />
• Gradient thumbnails<br />
• User interface (minor improvements)<br />
• Help documentation

<p><b>Keyboard Shortcuts added...</b></p>

• Cycle through gradients [ ]<br />
• Cycle through gradient types < ><br />
• Preserve layer transparency /<br />
• Cycle through blending modes Shift + +/-<br />
• Select all Layers Shift + Option + A<br />
• Hide other layers Option + Click on layer checkbox<br />
• Merge layers and paste as a copy in a new layer Command + Option + E<br />
• Create a new layer instantly Command + Option + Shift + N<br />
• Select top layer Option + .<br />
• Select next layer Option + ]<br />
• Select previous layer Option + [<br />
• Select bottom layer Option + ,

some of the Quartz Composer filters to show incorrect preview
selection inaccuracy sometimes when moving selected objects
the message “Your startup disk is almost full” to appear
printing problems after the dpi is increased
the picture to appear in an incorrect position after dragging it to the canvas area from the Photo Browser
selection-jumping problems when transforming selection after using the Magic Wand tool
adjustments or filters to be added to the wrong portion of an image for awhile after moving selection
selection not to rotate 90° or 180°
Flip function not to work with selection
Last Filter command not to work after using Quartz Composer-based filter
Photo Browser to show Aperture 2 items as folders (no Aperture support yet)
palettes to appear white on some PowerPC-based Macs
incorrect opacity setting when choosing black from Scratch palette
transform controls not to be shown after launching application with Move tool selected
palettes to disappear after changing display’s resolution
selection to jump after transforming it in zoomed-out view
content changes after transforming selection outside canvas
an incorrect result after using Transform, Rotate, and then Scale tools
A crash that sometimes occurred when saving relatively large images
Clone Stamp changing its position after mouse release
Print Help button not working
Console message with use of some transform tools that said “***-[NSCFDictionarysetObject:forKey:]:attempt to insert nil value (key:delegate)”
Beep notice when transforming empty selection
Transform constrain proportions not working correctly
Stability problems caused by transform tools after trying to Quit application
Help Button in PDF open panel not working correctly
TIFF compatibility
PSD compatibility
PXM
User interface (minor)
Performance (minor)
Transform (minor)
Automator actions
Type tool icon (to be more visible)
Motion Blur performance
Transform tools snapping
Layers (When adding a layer mask to layer, if there is a selection active, that selection will now be used as a mask.)
Transformed selection (double-click will now accept any changes).
Undo/Redo now works with Add/Remove/Hide Guide.
Saving an image to a folder that is read-only (Alert message will be shown when saving an image)
Rope Tool (when used with Quartz-Composer-based filters)
Tab shortcut now works properly

• Custom Core Image Units support
• Custom Quartz Composer compositions support (Leopard only)
• Graphics Tablet support
• Quick Look plug-in added (Leopard only)
• More than 18 Core Image-based filters have been added (Leopard only): Box Blur, Gamma Adjust, Bump Distortion Linear, Comic Effect, Hexagonal Pixellate, Line Overlay, Spot Color, Spotlight, Eightfold Reflected Tile, Fourfold Reflected Tile, Fourfold Rotated Tile, Fourfold Translated Tile, Glide Reflected Tile, Perspective Tile, Sixfold Reflected Tile, Sixfold Rotated Tile, Twelvefold Reflected Tile, and Bar Swipe Transition.
• More than 60 Quartz Composer-based filters have been added (Leopard only): Bulge, Dent, Light Tunnel, Pinch, Squeeze, Twirl, Fish Eye, Mirror, Stretch, ASCII Art, Blue Print, City Lights, Compound Eye, Concert, Crystallize, Dot Screen, False Color, Film Stock, Glow, Kaleidoscope, Line Overlay, Line Screen, Monochrome, Neon, Pixellate, Pointillize, Posterize, Tracer, Zoom Blur, Black and White, Color Pencil, Comic Book, Pop Art, Sepia, Thermal Camera, X-Ray, Defocus, Fall, Floor, Gradient, Grid, Image Hose, Moving Shapes, Travelator, Wall, Blur, Color Controls, Exposure Adjust, Flip-Flop, Gamma Adjust, Image Resizer, Motion Blur, Sharpen, Color Invert, Copy Machine, Cube, Dissolve, Mask, Mod, Mosaic Flip, Push, Swing, Zoom, and Dissolve.
• Stroke can now be applied inside, outside, and in the center of the path
• Stroke drawing improved
• Core Image memory leak fixed
• Printing improved
• JPEG files are now non-progressive when saved
• PNG support improvements
• Canvas Size bug in percentage adjustment fixed
• Eyedropper bugs fixed
• Other minor Leopard compatibility issues and bug fixes

• Fixed bugs in the Magick Wand tool
• Fixed a bug in the text tool that prevented opening saved PXM documents
• Added support for opening CMYK files
• Fixed crash with Auto Levels, Levels, and Auto Contrast
• Changed JPEG file extension to .jpg
• Resolution information is now properly stored
• Fixed some minor problems with Photo Browser
• Text Tool now properly supports undo/redo
• Fixed text layer duplication bug
• Fixed crash occurring with Eyedropper tool
• "Show Fonts" button in text tool now always updates
• Fixed image resizing bug that introduced black lines around images
• Popup button in Match to Profile window now properly displays long profile names
• Photo Browser now properly supports iPhoto 6.0.6
• Improved PSD files support
• Improved serial number field for easier entering of serial numbers
• Pixelmator now opens all RAW file formats supported by Mac OS X
• Minor stability and performance improvements

• Blur and Sharpen tools are now significantly faster
• Tab shortcut now shows/hides all palettes
• Gradients tool now works (Leopard issue)
• Photo Browser bugs fixed (Leopard issue)
• Problems with filters preview fixed (Leopard issue)
• 512 and 256 icons added (Leopard issue)
• Fixed bugs in the Magic Wand tool
• After Cut and/or Clear Layer thumbnail now updates
• Problems when moving selection fixed
• When resizing the whole image layer masks also resize now
• Fixed bugs when moving type layer
• Other Type tool bug fixes
• PSD support improvements
• PNG support improved
• IPTC/EXIF informations is now stored when saving files
• TIFF support improvements
• Software Update issues fixed
• Minor Help bugs fixed

Pixelmator 1.3.1 (November 26, 2008)
New Features

• New Color Management sheet
• New Refine Selection Tool

Improvements

• ColorSync support for painting tools
• Performance after accepting filters or adjustments
• Performance of click-and-drag tools
• iSigh support
• Smart palette hide
• Action tooltips
• Tiger compatibility
• PowerPC support (Copy/paste color issue)
• PSD compatibility
• Canvas Size will now work properly when changing size by one pixel
• Type tool
• Move Tool auto-select function now works properly after rasterizing a type layer
• Type Tool now remembers align setting when typing
• It is now possible to format type layer when it’s mask is selected
• When using Type Tool on an empty layer, the layer is converted to a type layer
• It is now possible to move a type layer using keyboard arrows
• Cursor improvements when working with a type layer
• Check Spelling & Grammar support improved
• Character Palette support improved
• Minor Type Tool UI improvements
• Type align improved
• Type Tool when in Quick Mask mode improved
• Selecting type layer using the Type Tool is more precise now
• Option + Backspace fills a type layer text with the foreground color
• Command + Backspace fills a type layer text with the background color
• French language support
• Help documentation

Corrected Bugs

• Replace Color did not work properly on hidden layers
• Problems with transforming a selection
• Some tools would not enlarge an image by one pixel
• Profile was assigned even when no profile was selected
• Eyedropper and Color Panel Picker selecting the incorrect color
• Inability to use the Eyedropper Tool when working with two displays
• Some older PXM files did not open in version 1.3
• A Welcome Screen crash that sometimes occurred when launching the application
• A crash that occurred when choosing color in Quartz Composer filters
• A crash that occurred when closing windows or switching apps when the Type Tool was selected
• A crash that occurred when switching to the Eyedropper Tool
• A crash that occurred when closing a document in Tiger