All-New Healing Tool in Pixelmator 2.1.1
The Pixelmator 2.1.1 update is out! But this is more than just another maintenance update. We’ve packed in a little treat for you: This update brings a radically improved Healing Tool. Now you can easily remove image imperfections or just about any image element you want, so your pictures look their absolute best.
Up to 20x faster than previous version
We are bursting with pride to tell you that this is the best and the fastest Healing Tool in the world. Pretty sophisticated algorithms and the latest OS X technologies have allowed us to create a tool that performs at an incredible speed. We hope you’ll be as excited about it as we are.
A lot of other good things are here, too: the ability to temporarily hide the Alignment Guides with the Command key, significant performance improvements, the effects you’ve missed, and much more.
Enjoy!
Really impressive work. This is something that was very time consuming to do by hand, will save lots of time.
Wow! This is a real bonus to touch up areas quickly. I wonder what I’ll be doing with all the extra time I get back.
It’s really fast now. And REALLY inaccurate :(. I mean, it’s almost always wrong with my pictures. As in: horribly wrong, putting wrong sections of the image in place of the “healed” ones.
Here’s the image I used: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127246/healtest.jpg
Try to remove the white speck on this guy’s hand. It’s impossible to do it right with the new version. Fix it please :(.
I really love the quick hide of alignment guides :-) Thanks! :D
Ok.
BRB. Buying Pixelmator. This has convinced me to switch! Woo!
The video you’ve included doesn’t seem to be playable from my iPhone running iOS 5.1.1.
Thanks for the Tutorial, never knew it would work with the other selection tools.
I’m with M4v3R. The new healing tool isn’t working properly for me either. Fixing small blemishes (rather than the large changes shown in the video above) is no longer seamless. The “healed” area is noticeably different than the area around it. This was not the case in the prior version. Is there any way to revert?
Super upset that the healing tool is not working anymore. Was going to work on editing some photos tonight and now its not even worth trying. Please fix or let us go back to the previous software version!!!!!
The healing tool is EXTREMELY buggy now. I try to remove a small blemish on the right side of the image and it replaces it with something on the far left. It’s indeed faster but the accuracy is way off. Used to work fine before. Hoping this gets fixed ASAP as I used this functionality often and don’t have a backup of the old Pixelmator version to revert to….
Pixelmator is getting worse and worse in every aspect! Please make it good as it used to be!
I’m hoping that I’ll someday be able to replace an Adobe product with something much better. I’m not talking about Photoshop but Flash. Please consider changing your video player. :)
the healing tool is NOT WORKING PROPERLY. Please fix it or just tell me how to revert back to the old version.
The healing tool is not working for me as well… I’m really bummed because i was going to edit many portraits today.
quick hide of alignment guides is not working. If I have understood correctly, then I just need to press the cmd-button or.
For me it does not work. (German keyboard).
Big sad face for the Healing Tool. I use it a lot, but its not working at all for me now.
I’m wil others who have already said it, but this new update has caused the healing tool to be extremely buggy. Yes its much faster but it doesn’t work at all! Please fix this!
I got a response from the Pixelmator team. They kindly provided me with a beta version that works much better, and they’ve said that it will be on the Mac App Store very soon. Now that’s a customer service!
The new Healing tool is FAST ! But what’s a fast tool when it doesn’t work at all ? :-/
I hope what M4v3R said is true.
I am missing a “Duplicate” (document) or “Save as…” menu item?
What am I overlooking?
I purchased pixelmator about a year ago and about the only thing i’ve tried using it for is the healing tool,
and its been less than good for my cases . Gimp’s resynthesize plugin has faired much better and i’ve never looked back,
2.8 version is a native OSX install, its free if you have the time to try it.
Just installed 2.1.1 (fresh install). Healing Brush worked fine for me. No issues at all. 2011 13″ Macbook Air
Video takes forever to load via high speed DSL. And you want me to buy your healing smart pixielmstor app?
It works fine.
The new healing tool works relatively well (but not perfect) on my MacBook Air mid ’12, on the other hand, it is more buggy (especially about its hue) on my iMac mid ’11…
I can confirm on a 2010 iMac running ML that the new healing tool is quite bad. It was much better before the update. I’m not sure if this issue is only related to older macs? Looking forward to another update to fix, love pixelmator otherwise.
[...] be ready and waiting for you. And to see the Healing tool in action, check out Pixelmator’s blog post about this new [...]
[...] be ready and waiting for you. And to see the Healing tool in action, check out Pixelmator’s blog post about this new [...]
[...] be ready and waiting for you. And to see the Healing tool in action, check out Pixelmator’s blog post about this new [...]
i have the same problem, healing brush is only damaging the picture now ;( and where is Vibrance?? could ou make an option to be able to choobe if we want to have effect browser or not? i was using short cuts with effects, now it’s so uncomfortable to use them D;
The Pixelmator team is usually good about listening to user feedback when it comes to fixing things that worked well in previous versions. That’s why I am surprised the the filters and adjustments aren’t back in the menus instead of only the effects browser. I still recommend users stay with 2.0.5 until this and the new healing brush are fixed.
Agreed about the healing tool. This is a fantastic feature and now it’s completely broken. It used to be fantastic until the recent optimization effort issued forth. I think we are all looking forward to the next update.
Rock on Pixelmator team. We are all with you!
I love love love Pixelmator BUT why is the healing brush not working. I need this feature to retouch my client portraits. Please address this asap. As far as everything else goes keep up the great work. Thanks
Upgraded to 2.1.1 and healing tool is no longer any good for the types of retouching I do. Fortunately I had a backup of 2.1 so I have reverted to 2.1 until the healing tool regains its functionality. It may be that for some kinds of retouching, perhaps on a more powerful Mac, that the new healing tool is better, but for fixing small areas on a Mac Mini the tool in 2.1 is much better. Perhaps you should have a “Basic Healing Tool” that works like the one in 2.1, and also an “Advanced Healing Tool”, either as separate tools or as different configurations of the Healing tool.
After the latest update, the healthing tool is worse than before, cannot peform “content aware fill” completely, too bad.
Hearing about the problems with the new heal tool, i’ve got to agree with Paul. Bring back the old heal tool that was working and make the new heal tool and additional sub choice.
Someday Pixelmator kill Photoshop and I’ll love it!
For a long time Adobe stop using great Mac OS X technologies and how Photoshop is slow, useless and ugly.
Thanks Pixelmator team for your work!