

Pixelmator Pro presents an effectively clean and sparse experience, keeping your focus on the image. You can create both raster (bitmap) and vector layers. Over on the left you’ll find the Layers palette, which is key to using many of the app’s more powerful features. This could be good or bad: If you have Photoshop’s shortcuts and workflows in your muscle memory, it can take a long time to relearn, and when a feature is missing, it can be frustrating. On the other hand, it means that Pixelmator gets rid of 30 years of baggage and can think in new ways. Pixelmator Pro sticks to the most important features and doesn’t try to recreate exactly every Photoshop feature. Instead of four different ways of doing one thing, you get the best/easiest. And everything that is important for most people is there: Layers with layer masks, blending modes, adjustment layers, tools for drawing and painting, auto exposure, distortion and so on. The interface won’t immediately be familiar if you are used to Photoshop. And, just to confuse things further, Pixelmator Team recently launched an entirely new photo-editing app called Photomator that runs on Macs, iPhone and iPad. And, on the mobile side, the iPhone and iPad versions of the app have merged into a single app that is simply called Pixelmator.
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The older Pixelmator Classic for Mac now seems to have been discontinued, leaving just Pixemator Pro on the Mac. It’s a little tricky keeping track of the Pixelmator range as the developers at Pixelmator Team have a tendency to keep changing the name, and also producing multiple versions of the app for Macs, iPhone and iPad. Pixelmator Pro can also be used to edit video and create professional layouts. But over the years it has evolved so it it no longer only an alternative to Photoshop.

Pixelmator Pro is a popular and affordable alternative to Adobe’s Photoshop – not least because it’s available as a one-time purchase that doesn’t require a monthly subscription like Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps.
