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Publisher's description
Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Lithuanian brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies. Pixelmator features selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools; as well as layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and a transparent head-up display user interface for work with images. Pixelmator uses Core Image and OpenGL technologies that use the Mac's video card for image processing.
The smart and powerful Move Tool lets you easily move, rotate, and distort any element, selection, text, shape, or an entire layer. Each time you click an object, the Move Tool knows whether it’s text, a shape, or an image layer, and gives you all the options that you need. And when you move any of the layers, the smart Alignment Guides appear so you can align and distribute objects just perfectly. With Pixelmator’s powerful, pixel-accurate selection tools, you can quickly and easily select any part of your image.
Then, refine your selection by applying color adjustments and special effects, transforming, moving or deleting. You can also duplicate, or copy and paste your selection onto a new background. Fast and fluid image editing relies on an image editing engine. So we took an extra step to build a truly modern and innovative image editing engine that takes advantage of the full power of OS X technologies like Core Image, OpenCL, OpenGL, and Grand Central Dispatch, giving you the speed you need to keep pace with your creativity. With the new Pixelmator’s image editing engine built to harness the power of OS X, just about any image edit you do in Pixelmator is noticeably faster — up to twice as fast compared to previous versions of Pixelmator on OS X Mountain Lion. So when applying effects and creating complex compositions, you can enjoy instant responsiveness.
Features:
Uses technologies like Core Image and Automator.
Based on ImageMagick[6]
Photoshop images with layers are supported as well as other popular still image file formats.
Uses layers-based editing.
Over 40 tools for selecting, cropping, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation.
Shape tools.
16 color correction tools and over 50 filters.
Integrates with Mac OS X and applications such as iPhoto and Aperture.
Pictures can be taken with an iSight camera from within the app.
Quick file conversion can be done with the help of Automator actions.
Mac OS X ColorSync and ColorSync profiles are supported.
Support for Mac OS X Lion features such as versions, auto save, and full screen mode.