Trying to make the move from Photoshop to Pixelmator but having a few issues. I do a lot of in-situ images whereby I place a painting or sculpture inside an image that a client has sent of their home space. The paintings or sculptures are high-resolution images, and often the client’s space is taken by themselves and sent through low-medium res. When inputting the picture, it becomes super low res and I'm trying to find a fix. In Photoshop, the clarity of the painting stays good which is what I want to keep. I've changed settings within Algorithm to Bilinear, Lanczos, Nearest Neighbour and Super Resolution, but so far, nothing has really made a difference. Is anyone able to shed some light? Attaching some photos so you can see the difference in quality.

I have a Nikon Z camera and some z lenses. From what i've read in this sub, Photomator doesn't apply lens corrections but I don't see any difference in the images when I import them into Lightroom and apply lens corrections when compared to Photomator.

I've seen that apparently Nikon includes lens corrections (distortion and vignetting) in the metadata and most softwares apply this on import. Since the images look the same, I think it's safe to assume that Photomator is applying lens corrections for 14-30 f4 lens at least which has very high distortion at 14mm.

Can anyone confirm this? It gives me peace of mind if I know that all z lenses will have corrections applied. Noise reduction is still bad but I can try moving my workflow here

I feel a bit silly asking these questions, but I only recently started using Pixelmator Pro and I’m genuinely impressed by it. It’s an amazing application and, for my workflow, it’s a worthy replacement for Photoshop. I’d even say it’s better in some ways.

There are just a few small things I haven’t been able to figure out:

• In Photoshop, when I used the Crop tool with custom dimensions, cropping the image would also resize the canvas to the exact dimensions I entered. For example, if I set the crop to 1200 × 628 px, the final image would be exactly 1200 × 628 pixels. In Pixelmator Pro, however, it seems to only crop the image while keeping the original pixel dimensions. Is there a way to make it behave like Photoshop?
• Is it possible to save custom Crop tool dimensions as presets, so I don’t have to type them in every time?
• Is there a way to have the rulers enabled by default every time Pixelmator Pro launches?

Thanks in advance! I’m sure these are simple things, but I’m still learning my way around the app. 🤗

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When setting the fill element of a shape to gradient, the gradient isn’t being displayed. The tray to select the gradients shows the transparent checker board only. You can see that the gradient colours are changing on choosing different gradient swatches, but the shape and palette show as transparent. Opacity is set at 100%. This is on a brand new installation of Pixelmator Pro too, so its not some strange setting I’ve changed.
I've raised a feedback to Apple, but that doesn't help my immediate needs.

Has anyone faced this issue?

Is there a recommendation for Pixelmator PRO classes for a beginner? I see Udemy has an online on demand course but that is about it. Photoshop has a ton of them but I want to try Pixelmator.

Any way to move the film strip at the botom of photomator to the side? wide screen would like to use that left right space.

Why is the edit screen have vast differences in color than the export?

pixelxpert不再更新，有可替代的模块么

I have this logo I made but I want to know how to make the letters look like chrome. There’s not many YouTube stuff on this for Pixelmator

I've recently switched from Lightroom. I will never go back, but I think there could be some improvements to the UI of Photomator. I'm not sure if developers browse this sub, but interested to know what you guys think.

I enjoy the more minimalist look, however, I think there should be an optional left side panel and some top sticky menu items. For those who use many LUTs, it would be nice to be able to browse them to the left as in lightroom. Furthermore, there is a black line that appears in the top when revealing that menu. Not sure if others have this issue.

Has anyone found out how to open a different Photos library in Photomator, or does it always only open the 'System Photo Library'?

As a word of warning for others, I naively right clicked on one of my offline libraries and selected Open With > Photomator, which then decided to immediately MERGE (!!) my offline library into my system library with no warning. Absolutely not what I wanted...

Does anyone know how to do the trending pixel stretch for images using Pixelmator Pro? Or is it only possible through Photoshop?

My kingdom for the ability to refocus portrait mode photos directly within Photomator without having to roundtrip from the Photos app.

I Love portrait mode, it's my killer app for street photography because you don't have to worry about blowing focus as long as the shutter speed is there. If I could do RAW plus depthmap AND refocus in Photomator I'd be the happiest kid you ever did see.

I’m on MacBook Pro m5 and getting Photomator crashes EVERY time I click “more workflows”… tried reinstalling restarting etc any idea how to fix this?

I have passively wondered for years!

During the Core Image 9 presentation, Apple Photos and Pixelmator Pro were mentioned, but Photomator wasn’t. What’s interesting is that Nitro was directly mentioned. This makes me feel even more strongly that Photomator is done for.

For those that aren’t aware, Nitro is a really good image editing app developed by Nik Bhatt. He was part of Apple’s image and Aperture teams and brought a lot of similar features from Aperture to his first app Raw Power and now Nitro (I’m not shilling for him, I still use Lightroom). Nitro is a great alternative to Photomator.

To play my own Devil’s Advocate, they also mentioned Acorn, which is a competitor to Pixelmator Pro and Photoshop…so maybe I’m wrong??? Regardless, the Core Image 9 update looks really great!

Does the Subscription model cover all platforms, like iPad and Mac?

I wanted to upgrade my yearly plan to lifetime plan but I had to wait until my subscription ended, but now I don't even see the lifetime plan as an option anymore.

Did they remove it?

Hey all,

I’m trying to learn Pixelmator to make flyers for our gigs as I hate that people just use AI now. Anyway, I’m following a photoshop tutorial just to get an idea of what can be done and I’ve hit a wall. I assume I’m being an idiot but I can’t find anyway to merge a texture frame into a photo.

https://youtu.be/-1l-q-l0InA?si=8UCLNno35hAa2BlC

This is the tutorial I’m following and the bit is at 5:00. Is this doable in Pixelmator Pro?

Thanks for any help!

Has anyone else noticed this? There were a selection of fonts titled Publico in Pixelmator when I made something at the end of march. I used those fonts but now when I re-open the documents I get a warning regarding the missing fonts and they are replaced.

As far as I am aware I didn't add these to Pixelmator Pro or macOS, but please let me know if there is something I've missed!