Pixelmator Pro

Pro image editing for everyone

Only for Mac

$49.99

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Apple
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Mac

Pixelmator Pro is an incredibly powerful, beautiful, and easy-to-use image editor designed exclusively for Mac. With over 50 image editing tools, Pixelmator Pro has everything you need to create designs, edit photos, draw illustrations, paint digital paintings, and be creative in just about any way you can imagine. Designed to be the ultimate Mac app, Pixelmator Pro has won multiple awards, including the Mac App of the Year award, and is one of the best-rated apps on the Mac App Store. Edit and enhance • Adjust the colors in your photos and even videos in any way you want using a powerful collection of pro-grade color adjustments • Use machine learning-powered tools to automatically remove image background, enhance photos and videos, increase resolution, remove compression artifacts and noise, correct white balance, and more • Magically remove unwanted objects from images using the incredible Repair tool • Quickly make good-looking shots spectacular with over 40 presets that create cinematic, vintage, photographic film, and many other looks • Enjoy full support for RAW photos from over 750 most popular digital cameras, including compressed Fujifilm RAWs • Make precise selective edits using color adjustments layers Create stunning designs • Create beautiful designs in moments with over 200 templates • Find templates for a range of different formats including posters, social media posts, resumes, and more • Effortlessly replace placeholder content in templates and mockups using Smart Replace • Harness the full power of layer-based editing to design posters, webpages, or apps from scratch • Easily transform the look of templates using built-in alternative elements — lighting, shapes, effects, and illustrations • Add text and customize all its typography features, including font, size, emphasis, alignment, ligatures, spacing, indents, and much more • Quickly and effortlessly align objects using the intelligent Arrange tool • Combine any of over 70 versatile, nondestructive effects to develop any artistic or special effects you can imagine • Customize the look of layers using layer styles, such as Fill, Stroke, Drop Shadow, and Inner Shadow • Showcase your designs in stunning, fully-customizable mockups Draw and illustrate • Create vector designs using a full set of vector tools, including Pen and Freeform Pen tools • Speed up creating illustrations with over 200 stylish shapes designed by the Pixelmator Team • Add customizable Smart Shapes to quickly create your custom shapes • Import and export vector files in SVG and PDF formats Sketch and paint • Paint digital or traditional paintings with a collection of beautiful, handcrafted dual-texture brushes • Take advantage of full support for graphics tablets to paint with pressure and tilt sensitivity • Enjoy incredibly fast and responsive painting thanks to a cutting-edge painting engine powered by Metal graphics technology Machine learning-powered editing • Automatically enhance images with machine learning-powered features including ML Enhance, Match Colors, Super Resolution, Denoise, Deband, and Crop • Quickly and easily make accurate selections using the Quick Selection tool Compatibility • Open files in popular image and video formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, HEIF, SVG, AI, Illustrator EPS, PDF, GIF, BMP, TGA, WebP, JPEG-2000, AVIF, MP4, MOV, and more • Open and export HDR images and videos • Open and export Adobe Photoshop images with layers • Share your images or videos to Photos, Mail, AirDrop, and other locations Built exclusively for Mac • Pixelmator Pro is a Universal app that is fully optimized for Mac devices with Apple silicon • Designed exclusively for macOS, Pixelmator Pro supports almost every major macOS feature and integrates seamlessly with macOS Sequoia • Enjoy support for iCloud Drive, Versions, a full-featured Photos extension, Shortcuts, Light and Dark Modes, Split View, AppleScript, Apple Pencil, and more

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An Absolute Pleasure to Use!
04/18/2022

Look Everybody
I started with Pixelmator Classic, mainly because it provided a great alternative to Photoshop. In practice, I found it daunting to use. I then went over to Affinity apps, which are incredibly powerful tools, and you only pay their price once. Although Affinity is absolutely fantastic and completely maximized for Apple Silicon, it sometimes can hold you back speed wise, because it has so many features available to you at once. I don't know what made me revisit Pixelmator Pro, but I'm glad I did. I can't believe how easy it is to use.....and very fast. I feel like the workflow is so much more fluid. And not only that, it has vector graphics capability as well. It's so easy to switch back and forth between work environments. And Pixelmator Pro integrates into Apple Photos, Final Cut Pro, and Motion so easily. Also, the machine learning in the app is absolutely insane and surprisingly accurate. I can't believe I ignored this app for so many years. It is an absolute pleasure to use....it basically gets all the technical stuff out the way, and now I can focus on experimenting, developing and finalizing ideas quickly. The Pixelmator team has the magic sauce and it can only get better from here. This is my testimony.

Developer Response
The pleasure is all ours! Thanks for the awesome feedback.
An Absolute Pleasure to Use!
04/18/2022

Look Everybody

I started with Pixelmator Classic, mainly because it provided a great alternative to Photoshop. In practice, I found it daunting to use. I then went over to Affinity apps, which are incredibly powerful tools, and you only pay their price once. Although Affinity is absolutely fantastic and completely maximized for Apple Silicon, it sometimes can hold you back speed wise, because it has so many features available to you at once. I don't know what made me revisit Pixelmator Pro, but I'm glad I did. I can't believe how easy it is to use.....and very fast. I feel like the workflow is so much more fluid. And not only that, it has vector graphics capability as well. It's so easy to switch back and forth between work environments. And Pixelmator Pro integrates into Apple Photos, Final Cut Pro, and Motion so easily. Also, the machine learning in the app is absolutely insane and surprisingly accurate. I can't believe I ignored this app for so many years. It is an absolute pleasure to use....it basically gets all the technical stuff out the way, and now I can focus on experimenting, developing and finalizing ideas quickly. The Pixelmator team has the magic sauce and it can only get better from here. This is my testimony.
Developer Response 04/19/2022
The pleasure is all ours! Thanks for the awesome feedback.
Inexcusable Lack of Noise Reduction
12/18/2018

CarlosBeltran
After reading the reviews, I thought this was at least a "prosumer" grade editing app and a decent replacement for Lightroom (which I have soured on) in my workflow). I tried the auto photo enhancement for kicks (it was the worst I have seen/used), then set about to create my default workspace. As confusing as it is that the basic adjustments like exposure, contrast, curves, levels, etc. - which should be front and center - were buried under "color adjustments" (?), at least they were present - which cannot be said for one of the most basic, essential features of any photo editor: noise reduction. I have no interest in gimicky "light leak" filters/presets and the ability to put star stickers on my photos for snapchat. If the developers want to throw those features in, that's fine, but not having noise reduction is a non-starter, and the word "Pro" has no business being anywhere near this app.I was excited about this app, and it was the one that made me finally make the jump to Mojave (I had held off becsuse sevral of my longtime "go-to” apps are not supported). Unfortunately, it's unusable for me in it's current state. Of course, nobody forced me to buy it and it doesn't claim to have noise reduction in the description... but it also doesn't claim to have exposure adjustments or contrast or shadows and highlights. Why? For the same reasons car ads don't say they come with steering wheels. It's just expected, as should noise reduction be in a "Pro" app.

Developer Response
As tough as a review that is, it's not entirely unfair — as you said, we don't claim to have noise removal, but it's a great feature to have. It's definitely been on our minds recently and we'll do our best to find a way to include it in upcoming updates.
Inexcusable Lack of Noise Reduction
12/18/2018

CarlosBeltran

After reading the reviews, I thought this was at least a "prosumer" grade editing app and a decent replacement for Lightroom (which I have soured on) in my workflow). I tried the auto photo enhancement for kicks (it was the worst I have seen/used), then set about to create my default workspace. As confusing as it is that the basic adjustments like exposure, contrast, curves, levels, etc. - which should be front and center - were buried under "color adjustments" (?), at least they were present - which cannot be said for one of the most basic, essential features of any photo editor: noise reduction. I have no interest in gimicky "light leak" filters/presets and the ability to put star stickers on my photos for snapchat. If the developers want to throw those features in, that's fine, but not having noise reduction is a non-starter, and the word "Pro" has no business being anywhere near this app.I was excited about this app, and it was the one that made me finally make the jump to Mojave (I had held off becsuse sevral of my longtime "go-to” apps are not supported). Unfortunately, it's unusable for me in it's current state. Of course, nobody forced me to buy it and it doesn't claim to have noise reduction in the description... but it also doesn't claim to have exposure adjustments or contrast or shadows and highlights. Why? For the same reasons car ads don't say they come with steering wheels. It's just expected, as should noise reduction be in a "Pro" app.
Developer Response 10/22/2018
As tough as a review that is, it's not entirely unfair — as you said, we don't claim to have noise removal, but it's a great feature to have. It's definitely been on our minds recently and we'll do our best to find a way to include it in upcoming updates.
Definitly The Best Editing App
07/28/2024

saeed rahbari
After extensive search, I've come to the conclusion that this is the best app for photo and graphic editing on Mac. The controls are intuitive, the design follows Apple design rules (it's the same as apps like Pages and Numbers), it's fun to use and has lots of cool animations, it can be used to edit photos, vectors, graphics and painting, there is an extensive list of templates to choose from, just by playing around with the controls you can come up with great designs, it works with Final Cut and Motion, you can easily export in PSD when needed, And it's a one time payment. So do yourself a favor and buy the application. Believe me, the price is fair. It was a lot for me and at first I wanted to wait for a discount. But I just wanted to support the developers. Awesome Job!!! The only thing that bugs me is the support for RTL language. There is no problem with texts. But when I add strokes to an Arabic text, it shows lines between the letters that are attached. Is there a possibility for this to be fixed in future updates? I would really appreciate it. I also have two more ideas: 1. bevel and emboss 2. hiding all other layers by clicking on a layer. Thanks a lot. I'll be eagerly waiting for your response.

Developer Response
Thank you for such an in-depth review!In regards to the issue you experienced (and the suggestions you had), it'd be great if you could drop us an email with some more information at support@pixelmator.com and we'll gladly go over them with you. :)
Definitly The Best Editing App
07/28/2024

saeed rahbari

After extensive search, I've come to the conclusion that this is the best app for photo and graphic editing on Mac. The controls are intuitive, the design follows Apple design rules (it's the same as apps like Pages and Numbers), it's fun to use and has lots of cool animations, it can be used to edit photos, vectors, graphics and painting, there is an extensive list of templates to choose from, just by playing around with the controls you can come up with great designs, it works with Final Cut and Motion, you can easily export in PSD when needed, And it's a one time payment. So do yourself a favor and buy the application. Believe me, the price is fair. It was a lot for me and at first I wanted to wait for a discount. But I just wanted to support the developers. Awesome Job!!! The only thing that bugs me is the support for RTL language. There is no problem with texts. But when I add strokes to an Arabic text, it shows lines between the letters that are attached. Is there a possibility for this to be fixed in future updates? I would really appreciate it. I also have two more ideas: 1. bevel and emboss 2. hiding all other layers by clicking on a layer. Thanks a lot. I'll be eagerly waiting for your response.
Developer Response 08/08/2024
Thank you for such an in-depth review!In regards to the issue you experienced (and the suggestions you had), it'd be great if you could drop us an email with some more information at support@pixelmator.com and we'll gladly go over them with you. :)
Crazy Good. And Here's Why...
12/26/2020

Corey Ketring
Quick Version:This app is crazy good. I almost added a caveat, and titled this review as "crazy good for this price", but that's not a fair caveat. This app is crazy good. Period. I haven't found a single other app that can do what Pixelmator Pro can do with illustration AND photography. The cherry on top, so to speak, is the user-friendliness of the app. It's very easy to use, and learn. Here's Why...I'm just a graduate student who uses the app to create more engaging materials to use during clinical speech-language therapy activities, and it fulfills this purpose amazingly well. However, I've spent over 400 hours (who's counting though, right?!?!) learning about illustration and photo-editing, and Pixelmator is the best software for putting what's on my head into realization as a finished product. Again, illustration and photography are things I enjoy doing to supplement my work as a speech-language pathologist. I'm not a professional by any means. But let's say I want to target "bilabial plosives" (fancy speech-language pathologist way of saying "b" and "p" sounds) in a speech-sounds intervention plan. I take a picture of a soccer ball with my phone. Then I use Pixelmator to make it purple with pink . Now, it's a "purple ball with pink balloons", and in one image I have four opportunities to target a bilabial plosive. Now, I have to do this 100 more times to have enough materials for the sessions I want to do in a month. Pixelmator lets me do this efficiently, and lets me personalize my therapy materials for every patient I see. That personlization is really magical. That sounds cheesy, but there's no other way to describe it. Thanks Pixelmator!
Crazy Good. And Here's Why...
12/26/2020

Corey Ketring

Quick Version:This app is crazy good. I almost added a caveat, and titled this review as "crazy good for this price", but that's not a fair caveat. This app is crazy good. Period. I haven't found a single other app that can do what Pixelmator Pro can do with illustration AND photography. The cherry on top, so to speak, is the user-friendliness of the app. It's very easy to use, and learn. Here's Why...I'm just a graduate student who uses the app to create more engaging materials to use during clinical speech-language therapy activities, and it fulfills this purpose amazingly well. However, I've spent over 400 hours (who's counting though, right?!?!) learning about illustration and photo-editing, and Pixelmator is the best software for putting what's on my head into realization as a finished product. Again, illustration and photography are things I enjoy doing to supplement my work as a speech-language pathologist. I'm not a professional by any means. But let's say I want to target "bilabial plosives" (fancy speech-language pathologist way of saying "b" and "p" sounds) in a speech-sounds intervention plan. I take a picture of a soccer ball with my phone. Then I use Pixelmator to make it purple with pink . Now, it's a "purple ball with pink balloons", and in one image I have four opportunities to target a bilabial plosive. Now, I have to do this 100 more times to have enough materials for the sessions I want to do in a month. Pixelmator lets me do this efficiently, and lets me personalize my therapy materials for every patient I see. That personlization is really magical. That sounds cheesy, but there's no other way to describe it. Thanks Pixelmator!

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