

Whenever possible, Pixelmator Pro will try to preserve the font face when changing font family.Added an Add Guide command to the View menu’s Guides submenu.Attempting to use the Color Fill or Gradient Fill tools on text or shape layers will now create an empty new layer and fill that instead of doing nothing at all.When you add a new, untagged layer to a tagged group, it will be assigned the group’s color tag.Pressing and holding the Shift key while changing the rulers’ origin will now snap it to the grid and objects in your composition.
PIXELMATOR LAYER MASK UPDATE
Changing the rulers’ origin will now update the grid to match the new rulers.Since it’s more of a functional adjustment rather than a creative one, it now mixes channels purely mathematically. Previously, the Channel Mixer used our perceptual color model to make prettier adjustments.The Brightness adjustment is now more precise in images with extreme tonal ranges.The Repair tool progress bar will no longer be shown when making quick, small repairs.Converting text to shape is now much (much) faster.Pressing the Return key while drawing a path will now close the path.Zoom performance improvements speed up zooming in documents with many layers.Option-clicking a layer’s visibility icon will now hide all other layers.Option-Shift-Arrow will duplicate and move by 10 pixels. Option-Arrow will now duplicate layers and move them by 1 pixel.Option-Comma (,) and Option-Period (.) let you select the top and bottom layer.Option-Left bracket () let you select one layer up and down.


PIXELMATOR LAYER MASK FREE
($39.99 new from Pixelmator and the Mac App Store, free update, 193 MB, release notes, macOS 10.Pixelmator Pro 1.3.1 adds support for Portrait Masks, brings a new Comics effect, includes a number of new keyboard shortcuts, and more. Pixelmator Pro 1.6.2 also gains the capability to create a mask from an image using Format > Choose Mask, ensures scroll bars will always be visible when “Show scroll bars” is set to Always in System Preferences, addresses a freeze while opening very large documents, and fixes a bug that lost solid white or solid black layer masks when exporting to PSD. Option-clicking Add Mask in the Layers sidebar shortcut menu now adds a mask that reveals the contents of the masked layer instead of hiding everything.Command-Option-comma keyboard shortcut toggles layer visibility.Command-Option-G creates and releases clipping masks.Command-Shift-V inserts a new layer from the Finder.Command-I has been reassigned from the Invert adjustment to the new Invert command.The release also provides a grab bag of new and reassigned keyboard and mousing shortcuts, including: The Pixelmator Team has issued version 1.6.2 of its Pixelmator Pro image editing app with a new Replace Image feature (Command-Shift-R) that enables you to replace image layers while preserving their layer styles, color adjustments, effects, and other nondestructive features. #1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.#1664: Real system requirements for OS 2023, beware Siri creating alarms instead of timers.#1665: Important OS security updates, abusive Web notifications, solve myopia with an iPhone, Self Service Repair.
