Pixelmator Pro is a beautiful, easy-to-use, and very powerful image editor for Mac. With its cutting edge technologies, Pixelmator Pro is the most modern way to create, edit, and enhance your images. Pixelmator Pro is great for any of us who love editing images on Mac --- whether total beginners or advanced users.

The collection of powerful, nondestructive color adjustments in Pixelmator Pro lets you edit the colors in your photos in any way you want. And with full support for RAW photos, a collection of stunning adjustment presets, and incredible retouching tools, it couldn't be easier to turn good-looking photos spectacular.

Pixelmator Pro 3.0 is the biggest update to Pixelmator Pro yet. It features an all-new, more intuitive design, support for the new Macs powered by the incredible M1 chip, full compatibility with macOS Big Sur, and a whole lot more. And best of all, it's completely free to all existing Pixelmator Pro users.

Features

Edit the colors in your photos in any way you want.

In Pixelmator Pro, you'll find everything from essential color adjustments like brightness, contrast, and exposure to advanced tools like multi-channel curves and wheel-based color balance.

Enhance photos automagically.

Many of the most important adjustments can be applied automatically, using a machine learning algorithm trained on 20 million photos.

Perfect every detail.

Magically remove unwanted objects, clone parts of your photos, lighten or darken precise areas, and do much more. All by using simple brushstrokes to retouch just the areas you want. So all your shots look picture-perfect.

Effortless RAW editing.

Pixelmator Pro supports RAW photos from over 600 of the most popular digital cameras. What's more, you can add RAW photos as RAW layers and edit directly without having to convert or preprocess them.

Draw and illustrate with a full collection of vector tools.

Pixelmator Pro also comes with a full set of vector tools for creating resolution-independent designs. It includes easily-customizable smart shapes, a large collection of pre-designed shapes, and support for the SVG vector file format.

Resolution Independent

Vector shapes are resolution-independent, so curves always look smooth and edges always stay sharp, no matter how much you resize each shape or even entire vector designs.

SVG Support

The SVG vector file format is supported in Pixelmator Pro, so you can open SVG files, edit their shapes and paths, and export while keeping all their vector data.

Smart Shapes

With a collection of pre-made Smart Shapes, you can quickly add star and various polygon shapes, arrows, speech bubbles, and other shapes to your compositions, then customize them in any way you want.

What's New

Pixelmator Pro 3.3 Mosaic brings an all'new Remove Color adjustment for quickly removing color from images and even videos, powerful Clarity, Selective Clarity, and Texture adjustments for intelligently enhancing fine details in images, new stroke styles and more options for customizing strokes, new ways to save edits using sidecar files, and a whole lot more.

Remove Color

  • Powered by a state-of-the-art Texture-Aware Algorithm, the Remove Color adjustment lets you remove solid colors or entire color ranges from images and videos with remarkable quality and ease.
  • Simply pick a color you want to remove using the color picker and watch it instantly disappear.
  • Adjust how much of the selected color is removed using Color Range, Luminance Range, and Intensity sliders.
  • When removing background color in videos, use the Remove Color adjustment together with the Replace Color adjustment to get ultra-high-quality results.

Texture-Aware Color Adjustments

  • Enjoy texture-aware Shadows, Highlights, Exposure, and Brightness adjustments and two new adjustments --- Clarity and Texture --- in the renewed Basic color adjustments group.
  • Recover much more detail from underexposed or overexposed photos with updated Shadows and Highlights adjustments.
  • Increase Clarity to subtly enhance image texture and colors, making the image look sharper and clearer overall, or reduce clarity to make the image look smoother.
  • Enhance Texture to subtly add contrast to images, making fine detail pop, or reduce texture to smooth out the image.
  • Adjust fine detail exclusively in the shadows, midtones, and highlights with the new Selective Clarity adjustment.

Stroke Styles

  • Create beautiful custom outlines around images and shapes with the all-new stroke customization options and a collection of built-in stroke styles.
  • In the Stroke style settings, find the new Stroke Options pop-up menu with options for creating and saving custom stroke styles.
  • Use the new options to change stroke alignment, apply different stroke cap styles including Butt, Round, or Square, select a square, round or beveled style for stroke corners, create dashed lines, and more.
  • Find a collection of popular stroke endpoint styles, including open and closed arrowheads, diamond, square, and more.
  • Scale endpoints together or individually using endpoint scaling options.
  • In the new Stroke Styles pop-up menu, find 7 built-in stroke presets to immediately use in your designs.
  • To save your own custom designs as presets, click the Add button at the top right corner of the Stroke Styles menu.

Sidecar Files Support

  • Thanks to the new sidecar feature, you can now open and edit images in their original file format, and then save them back to the same file format while preserving all nondestructive edits and layers.
  • Sidecar files are stored in iCloud or the Pictures folder on your Mac, separately from the original image.
  • You can also save any new document to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, and HEIC and preserve the edits.
  • Easily save images opened from Photos back to the Photos library with layers and edits by choosing File > Modify Original in Photos.
  • Continue editing the modified images in Photos using the Pixelmator Pro extension.
  • Find, manage, and delete sidecar files in the Manage Files menu.
  • Turn automatic document saving and macOS Versions on and off by selecting or deselecting Use Auto Save and Versions.
  • Find the new Editing options in Pixelmator Pro Settings.

Other Improvements

  • Fill layers with custom patterns and adjust their scale, angle, and opacity, using the new Pattern fill style.
  • Search and access all Pixelmator Pro tutorials straight from the Help menu.
  • Applying LUTs, color adjustments, effects, and auto color adjustments to videos using Shortcuts is now supported.

System Requirements

  • Pixelmator Pro requires macOS 10.14 Mojave or later and works especially well on the new M1-powered Macs.