Pixelmator Pro 2.1 Coral Brings AI-Driven Cropping, Quick Fill and Stroke With Brush Features, and More

[MacRumors]

Pixelmator Pro 2.1 Coral got its public release today. The latest major update to Pixelmator Pro adds a number of notable new features, including the ability to improve the composition of photos with machine learning, a new Quick Fill feature, improved painting tools, and more.

Powered by Core ML, the new ML Crop feature lets users automatically crop photos with a single click. According to the developers, the machine learning algorithm powering this feature has been trained to crop photos in a way that makes them more striking and eye-catching, making it a useful way to get a different perspective on cropping photos.

With ML Crop turned on, hovering over different aspects ratio presets will preview them with ML Crop's suggestions, which are generated by on-device processing to ensure high performance and privacy. In addition, the Crop tool has been redesigned to include perspective correction, crop overlays, and more.

Meanwhile, the new Quick Fill feature lets users change the look of objects in compositions via simple drag and drop. Just drag a color from the new color well in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar and drop it onto any object in your image to change its color. The Quick Fill feature works with every layer type in Pixelmator Pro, including images, shapes, and text layers.

Elsewhere, thanks to the new Stroke with Brush feature, users can now paint brush strokes along paths and around layers with ease. Customizing the look of a brush causes a live preview of its stroke to appear right on the canvas. Brush strokes can be painted around image, shape, and text layers, as well as along vector paths

A new text size slider also means there are now five different ways to change the size of text, while the update also brings advanced paragraph spacing options and the ability to adjust paragraph indents.

The update lands while Pixelmator Pro is still on sale for $19.99, offering customers 50% off the usual $39.99 price, although the sale ends on July 6th. Pixelmator Pro 2.1 Coral is a Universal app, so it runs natively on both ‌M1‌ and Intel-based Macs. Updates to the image editing app are free for existing users of Pixelmator Pro, which can be downloaded directly from the Mac App Store.

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[Jony Ive and Co.]

Amazing features. Apple should incorporate these into the stock photo app. The current editing functions are so crap that it's pathetic. There should at least be color fill functions, Content Aware (similar to Photoshop), and much more advanced editing options based on ML and the power of the Neural Engine built right into the default photos app. I shouldn't have to go to these third party apps just to edit pictures.

 

[Bustycat]

A third-party macOS app that is more Apple than Apple’s.

 

[Pakaku]

Amazing features. Apple should incorporate these into the stock photo app. The current editing functions are so crap that it's pathetic. There should at least be color fill functions, Content Aware (similar to Photoshop), and much more advanced editing options based on ML and the power of the Neural Engine built right into the default photos app. I shouldn't have to go to these third party apps just to edit pictures.

Not sure why it's Apple's responsibility, or why using a (very good) third-party app is an issue...

 

[Mr Lizard]

Amazing features. Apple should incorporate these into the stock photo app. The current editing functions are so crap that it's pathetic. There should at least be color fill functions, Content Aware (similar to Photoshop), and much more advanced editing options based on ML and the power of the Neural Engine built right into the default photos app. I shouldn't have to go to these third party apps just to edit pictures.

What’s wrong with using a third party app? The point of an OS’s included app set isn’t to incorporate everything imaginable. It’s to provide some level of functionality, yes, but importantly to be a platform on which other developers can build apps.

 

[japanime]

Pixelmator is a decent app, and it was part of my workflow for more than a decade.

But Affinity Photo, which I've been using as my main photo editor for the past two years, doesn't cost a whole lot more than Pixelmator yet runs circles around it.

 

[opeter]

Pixelmator is a decent app, and it was part of my workflow for more than a decade.

But Affinity Photo, which I've been using as my main photo editor for the past two years, doesn't cost a whole lot more than Pixelmator yet runs circles around it.

I have one question: how do you interchange the files with Photoshop and other users? I mean so, that the text stays editable?

And also, Affinity Photo doesn't have/support bitmap mode (1-bit black/white). That is one of the biggest problems for me.

 

[japanime]

I have one question: how do you interchange the files with Photoshop and other users? I mean so, that the text stays editable?

And also, Affinity Photo doesn't have/support bitmap mode (1-bit black/white). That is one of the biggest problems for me.

Everyone with whom I share the files also uses Affinity Photo, so it's not an issue for me. I did spend a full year incorporating the application into my workflow before making it my go-to editor.

 

[ikir]

Pixelmator is just incredible

 

[kirbyrun]

I love Pixelmator Pro, but, man, it bugs me that there’s no easy Mac->iPad workflow now. Would love an iPad app that can read PP files, since OG Pixelmator can’t.

 

[evertjr]

Pixelmator is a decent app, and it was part of my workflow for more than a decade.

But Affinity Photo, which I've been using as my main photo editor for the past two years, doesn't cost a whole lot more than Pixelmator yet runs circles around it.

I really wanted to like Pixelmator, but I installed the trial version and I find Affinity Photo superior in every aspect, not even their ML upscale impressed me. I think their strength is a simpler and intuitive interface whereas Affinity is more "Adobe like" feature packed.

 

[PsykX]

With apps as powerful as these, I don't know how Adobe gets away by making Photoshop still so expensive.

Just one month of renting Photoshop pays for being the owner of Pixelmator Pro forever.

 

[iDento]

Pixelmator is a decent app, and it was part of my workflow for more than a decade.

But Affinity Photo, which I've been using as my main photo editor for the past two years, doesn't cost a whole lot more than Pixelmator yet runs circles around it.

Same here, I used Pixelmator for 5 years, before I start using Affinity, now I have the 3 Affinity apps and they amazing. However, Affinity is not investing much in Artificial Intelligence and Pixelmator is doing a great job with that.

 

[BWhaler]

Great software. No subscriptions. Fair price.

 

[citysnaps]

With apps as powerful as these, I don't know how Adobe gets away by making Photoshop still so expensive.

Just one month of renting Photoshop pays for being the owner of Pixelmator Pro forever.

I suspect the majority of the professional/commercial/business world still runs on photoshop for image-based editing and production, where compatibility/support/features rule. And the expense in such spaces isn't a hinderance.

 

[VictorTango777]

Why do applications like BBEdit, Pixelmator and VLC Player keep using tiny text and buttons in their user interfaces, making them difficult to read on high resolution displays? This seems to be an attempt to make their applications look all high tech and sharp, but it just makes them painful to use.

 

[RadioHedgeFund]

A third-party macOS app that is more Apple than Apple’s.

Back when Pixelmator came out in 2008-or-so I did always wonder why Apple didn’t buy them and integrate it into iLife.

I’m still waiting on iDVD and iWeb for the iPad. I’d love to be able to connect a USB-C DVD drive and burn videos to disk and a good website builder would let me sidestep the likes of Wordpress or Wix.

 

[T Coma]

love their product, not a fan of the woke marketing

 

[mattdeezy]

I love Pixelmator. I find it super easy to learn. I have affinity also but I'm not a pro so Pixelmator is usually my go-to.

I like the look of these new ML features.

 

[k2director]

love their product, not a fan of the woke marketing

Exactly.

 

[s2eves]

Amazing features. Apple should incorporate these into the stock photo app. The current editing functions are so crap that it's pathetic. There should at least be color fill functions, Content Aware (similar to Photoshop), and much more advanced editing options based on ML and the power of the Neural Engine built right into the default photos app. I shouldn't have to go to these third party apps just to edit pictures.

Just pony up $20 and take advantage of all the “amazing features” within the Photos app to your heart’s content.

 

[BigSmurf]

Back when Pixelmator came out in 2008-or-so I did always wonder why Apple didn’t buy them and integrate it into iLife.

I’m still waiting on iDVD and iWeb for the iPad. I’d love to be able to connect a USB-C DVD drive and burn videos to disk and a good website builder would let me sidestep the likes of Wordpress or Wix.

iDVD? It has been ages since I last heard that. Will never happen. The age of DVD is past. You can use tools like Handbrake etc.

 

[opeter]

Everyone with whom I share the files also uses Affinity Photo, so it's not an issue for me. I did spend a full year incorporating the application into my workflow before making it my go-to editor.

Thanks for you reply. Sadly, I don't have this option.