Creative Tools
Paint & Erase
Over 100 artist-designed brushes and erasers ranging from near natural to all digital
Retouch
A full set of powerful and advanced retouching tools to touch up and enhance images
Distort
The Distort tools in Pixelmator for iOS let you quickly and easily reshape areas of your image
Adjust Colors
Beautifully toned color adjustment tools to perfect colors and adjust white balance
Add Effects
Over 14 breathtaking effects to subtly improve or change the image’s look and feel
Select
Powerful and pixel-accurate selection tools to quickly and easily select any part of an image
Crop & Straighten
Straighten the image angle or easily crop parts of an image with easy-to-use controls
Text
Choose from 18 predesigned text styles and edit with a full set of advanced typography features
Shapes
Add shapes in 8 predesigned color styles, then adjust the contours with easy-to-use controls
Layer Styles
Non-destructive styling options: Opacity, Blending, Fill, Stroke, Shadow, Reflection
Layer-based image editing
Precise layout tools
Vertical and horizontal rulers
Smart alignment guides, including center guides, edge guides, and spacing guides
Snapping to layers and image edges
Add different shapes, like Rounded Square, Circle, Triangle, Rhomb, Pentagon, Star, Heart, and Line shapes
Adjust shapes with smart controls:
Rounded Square—sharpen or make more round corners; Triangle and Polygon—change the number of sides; Star—change the number of points and their shape
Advanced typography features:
Choose from over 70 fonts, change size, apply gradient or solid color, choose character style, and set the alignment and line spacing
Image Gallery to store images on your iPad, iPhone, or right to iCloud
Edit image gallery:
Sort images by date or name, organize images into folders; rename and duplicate images; delete images
Create a blank, a blank landscape, and custom size images
Create images from Clipboard, template, FaceTime or iSight cameras, or open from Photo Library or iCloud Drive
Quick help with coaching tips
In-app help
Create and share images in Pixelmator file format
Share images in most popular file formats, including Photoshop images with layers, JPEG, and PNG
Send images to iCloud Drive in JPEG, PNG, and Photoshop file formats
Up to 16 megapixel canvas size support
Send a copy via Mail, Messages, Twitter, and Facebook, Airdrop, and Print; Open in Another App; Save Image to Photo Library
Over 30 inspiring templates to get started:
Collage — Mosaic, Grid, Lopsided, Rounded, Parallel, and Oblong
Frame — Sharp, Rounded, Artistic, Grunge, Elastic, Pastel, and Blurry
Card — Best Wishes, Thank You, Happy Holidays, Love Is…, Happy Birthday, Summer Greetings, and Congratulations
Poster — Colorful Life, Summer, Keep On Dreaming…, Pool Party, Spring Break, and Adventure
Photography — Rain Drops, Light Bokeh, Sunbeams, Splash, Light Leak, and Color Rays
Vintage — Burned Out, Torn Photo, Illuminated Film, Aged Photo, Faded Film, and Washed Out
Painting
Pencil
Pencil draws graphite-looking strokes: Mechanical Pencil, Medium Pencil, Soft Mechanical Pencil, Water Pencil, Soft Pencil, Pastel Pencil, Color Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Carpenter Pencil, Crayon Pencil, Woodless Pencil, and Double Pencil
Marker
Marker paints soft strokes for natural, hand-drawn painting: Pen, Typography Pen, Ballpoint Pen, Fabric Marker, Smashed Pen, Marker, Flex Marker, Highlighter, Manga Brush, Walter Marker, Wide Marker, and Graffiti Marker
Paint
Paint to create realistic watercolor paintings: Parallel Brush, Edge Brush, Filbert Brush, Light Brush, Soft Brush, Hard Brush, Sponge Brush, Mixed Brush, Scattered Brush, Vose Brush, Varnish Brush, and Triangular Brush
Crayon
Crayon paints soft textured strokes that can overlay each over: Drawing Cloth, Carbon Stick, Chalk, Square Oil Pastel, Oil Pastel, Coal, Pastel Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Wax Stick, Soft Crayon, and Square Pastel
Ink
Ink pen gives a variety of nibs for different drawing styles: Old Feather, Clumsy Ink, Dry Brush, Broken Ink, Thread Brush, Chinese Brush, Old Calligraphy Brush, Calligraphy Brush, Japanese Brush, Fanny Foam, Foam Brush, and Lettering Brush
Spray
Spray brush to create splashes of paint in various forms: Stone Spray, Soft Spray, Metallic Spray, Broken Spray, Crazy Spray, Blast Spray, Gravel Spray, Old Spray Can, Thick Spray, Spray Splatter, Dynamic Spray, and Spray Can
Watercolor
Create true-to-life watercolor paintings: Oval Wash, Waterbrush, Onion Tip, Watercolor Pencil, Neptune Brush, Aqua Flow, Scatter Wash, Goliath Wash, Fan Wash, Sparkle Wash, Decorative Wash, Rotary Wash
Smudge
Smudge tool to create smear painting effect: Foam, Crayon, Wax, Finger, Noisy, Round, Sponge, Spray, Water, Oil, Spatula, and Brush
Basic Brush
Paint with simple round brushes or create pixel art images: Soft, Medium, Hard, Pixel
Eraser
Dozens of erasers from regular to stylized: Kneaded, Vinyl, Rubber, Manga, Light, Soft, Hard, Block, Pastel, Cloud, Soap, and Pixel
Over 100 artist-designed brushes ranging from near natural to all digital and artistic
Brush tip size and opacity adjustments
Color Picker with a color well, hue and saturation sliders, opacity controls, quick access to previously used colors, ability to create color swatches, and an innovative grid of color shades
Eyedropper tool for choosing colors from an image
Six predesigned color swatch palettes
Advanced double texture technology that defines brush shape and it's texture separately for maximum detail and precision
Two types of brush strokes: overlaying and not overlaying for greater variety of effects when brushstrokes overlap
Wetness effect makes Watercolor and Crayon brushes near natural
OpenGL ES 2.0 based painting engine for super fast and real-time responsive painting
Brush stroke sensitivity to drawing speed and acceleration
Pixelmator on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus lets you paint with 3D Touch-sensitivity
Pixelmator for iPad gives full support of Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus, Intuos Creative Stylus 2, Adonit Jot Script, Jot Touch 4, Jot Touch Pixelpoint styluses
Pixelmator for iPad supports stylus shortcuts
Pixelmator for iPad displays stylus battery level
Pixelmator on iPad Pro fully supports Apple Pencil, together with palm-rejection, pressure, tilt and acceleration sensitivity