Technical Specifications

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

Color Adjustments

Presets

Instantly enhance colors with 8 presets designed for single-tap color adjustments

Levels

Control image shadows, highlights, and overall image tonality with the help of live histograms

Brightness & Contrast

Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation allow quick brightness and contrast color corrections

Color Balance

Color Balance allows the overall color mixing in an image while maintaining its tonal balance

White Balance

Remove color cast with the neutral color reference, temperature, and tint controls

Curves

Live histogram gives full control over the adjustments to an image’s tonal range

Unique color adjustment technology that combines all adjustments non-destructively

Live histogram to view color values in real-time

Intelligent saturation increase algorithm leaves no artifacts so you can play with it as much as you want

Intelligent saturation decrease algorithm happens in linear color space to preserve natural color as much as possible

Incredibly fast adjustments because Pixelmator utilizes CPU and GPU at the same time

Effects

Blur

Softens an entire image or selected area to create a more focused area or soften the details

Sharpen

Increases the clarity in a photo by strengthening hard edges and increasing contrast

Vignette

Darkens the edges of an image to create a dark soft-edged frame around it

Noise

Creates a strong or light grainy look to give an image a more vibrant look

Hue & Saturation

Changes overall image colors and tonality or selected color channels

Vintage

Applies a coordinated set of colors with some grain to create an aged image look

Black & White

Changes images into professional-looking black and white pictures with a tint of grain

Light Leak

Applies bright color strokes of light to an image in various color sets and arrangements

Bokeh

Applies brightly colored circles to create a blurred and out-of-focus effect in an image

Miniaturize

Blurs an image’s content below and above the selected area to simulate a toy-model world

Focus

Blurs an image’s content around the edges to focus on the image’s center

Bump

Creates a selected size bump in the image area that has been selected and pushes it upwards

Pinch

Pinches the image content inward to distort the edges of an image the most

Kaleidoscope

Creates a kaleidoscopic image from an opened image by applying 12-way symmetry

Over 14 breathtaking effects

Vintage effect in 7 different styles: Bauhaus, Art Deco, Romantic, Retro, Hippie, Punk, and Urban

Black-and-white effect in 7 different styles: Washed, Bright, Mellow, Faded, Inky, Dark, and Grainy

Light leak effect in various color sets and arrangements: Nebula, Arcturus, Rigel, Taurus, Orion, Lyra, Vega, and Pavo

Bokeh effect in 7 different styles: Magnolia, Amber, Emerald, Apricot, Ruby, Celeste, and Ivory

Light Leak, Bokeh, Miniaturize, Focus, Bump, Pinch, and Kaleidscope effects have a rope to control the center and size of the effect

Blur, Sharpen, Vignette, and Noise effects have a wheel to control the effect strength

Advanced Hue and Saturation algorithm maintains brightness and saturation level so that image colors are beautifully balanced

Rope reacts to built-in accelerometer to change its real-life look as you move your iPad or iPhone

Retouching

Repair

Quickly and seamlessly remove anything from an image

Lighten

Easily brush over the area to lighten image shadows or any other areas that are too dark

Darken

Brush to fix an overexposed image area or emphasize darker shadows in your photos

Clone

Use a brush to copy one part of an image onto another part of the same image

Sharpen

Subtly sharpen to increase image details by increasing the contrast on brushed areas

Soften

Blurs and softens image areas that are being brushed to take away or put in more focus

Smudge

Easily blend colors in areas of an image, soften hard edges and sharp details, or create special effects

Saturate

Gives an extra burst and vibrancy of color on the image to the areas being brushed

Desaturate

Tones down the colors on the image in the areas being brushed until they are in black and white

9 top-quality retouching tools

Lighten, Darken, Smudge, Sharpen, Soften, Saturate, and Desaturate tools have an adjustable stroke strength

The Repair Selection feature instantly repairs a selected area

Zoom aware editing — the size of the stroke is adjusted to the current zoom level

Advanced Repair tool technologies:

Patches — remove selected areas by replacing them with small pieces (patches) of images surrounding them

Smart technology — sophisticated repairing algorithms for stunning repairing quality

Color correction — each patch is color-corrected so that it matches the background of the area being repaired

Transition area — adjusts the imprecise selection of an object so that entire object can be removed

Structure matching — matches the color and the structure of the background area

Patch flipping — flips the patches to make the repairing smoother

Larger patching area — larger patches have more information, which makes it easier to repair an image more seamlessly

4x less memory — the new technology uses four times less memory than before

Distort tools

Warp

Drag your finger to pull an area of an image in any direction you want

Bump

Touch and hold down your finger to bloat an area of an image

Pinch

Touch and hold down your finger to squeeze an area of an image

Twirl Left

Touch and hold down your finger to twist or twirl an area of an image

Twirl Right

Touch and hold down your finger to twist or twirl an area of an image

Restore

Swipe over an area to quickly and easily reduce or undo the changes you’ve made

6 powerful Distort tools to easily reshape areas of an image

Intuitive two-finger gestures to control all Distort tools at the same time

All Distort tools have adjustable stroke size and strength to reshape areas more precisely

Zoom-aware editing — the size of the stroke is adjusted to the current zoom level

All Distort tools are powered by Metal — an incredibly fast graphics processing technology that gives all Distort tools amazing editing speed and stunning quality

Selection Tools

Free Selection

Draw selections of any size or shape to select irregularly shaped objects

Elliptical Selection

Draw rounded selections around oval or round objects

Rectangular Selection

Draw square or rectangular selections around square-shaped objects

Color Selection

Select similarly colored areas as you drag on an image canvas

Quick Selection

Simply swipe over areas to make incredibly precise selections (available on iPad 4 or later)

Magnetic Selection

Make detailed selections by tracing the edges of objects in your image.

6 pixel-precise tools

Live selection preview for both the Quick Selection and Color Selection tools

Easily invert selections

3 different selection modes – Create New, Add To, and Subtract From.

Refine selection tool to soften selection borders

Resize selection tool

Rotate selection to change its angle

Cut, Copy, and Paste selection content as a new layer

Paint, retouch, apply effects, and adjust colors to selected areas

Selection marching ants animation is vector-based so it looks seamlessly continuous

Layers

Layer-based image editing

Create new, duplicate, delete, rename, or hide layers

Create editable text and shape layers

Add layer from FaceTime and iSight cameras

Create layers from photos stored on your iPad or iPhone

Add predesigned pattern, color, or gradient layers

Adjust layer opacity

Lock layers and groups

Group layers

Merge grouped layers

Arrange layers

Move layer to back or front

Rotate layer left or right

Flip layer vertically or horizontally

Resize layer

Layer styles:
Fill layers with gradient or solid color; apply gradient or solid color stroke; choose stroke width; add shadow by setting shadow offset, color, blur and opacity; add reflection effect and adjust its opacity

Set different blending modes:
Normal, Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Darken Color, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Burn, Darker Color, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Lighter Dodge, Overly, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Divide, Hue, Saturate, Color, and Luminosity

The number of layers you can create depends on the image size and the memory available on your device

iOS 9 Integration

iOS Integration

Fully supported iOS features and technologies like iCloud Drive, Handoff, and more

iCloud

Takes advantage of iCloud to easily store and access images on your iPad, iPhone, and Mac

Handoff

Start editing an image on iPad or iPhone and pick up right where you left off on Mac

Multitasking on iPad

Split View and Slide Over let you use Pixelmator and any other app simultaneously

Extension

Embraced Photo Editing extension so you can apply effects without leaving Photos app

iOS Share

Share images with other apps, send via Mail, or post to social networks

Photos Support

Send created images to Photos Library or import pictures from the library to Pixelmator

64-bit architecture

With 64-bit architecture support, Pixelmator brings desktop-class image editing to iOS

iSight & FaceTime camera support

Add images to a composition using FaceTime or iSight camera right in Pixelmator

iPad and iPhone orientation support to work with images in landscape or portrait

iOS Clipboard support to copy and paste images between apps

Open image from other apps like Mail or Photos

Camera Roll support to access images stored on your iPad or iPhone

Native iOS 9 user experience

Standard 50-step-deep iOS undo support

Technologies

Interface designed to work with images specifically on iPad and iPhone

Tool bar to access tools, settings, sharing, and help

Layers bar to add new, arrange, and edit layers

Tools, Add Layer, Settings, and Share popovers

Rulers and alignment guides

Action tooltips give an idea of what happens on canvas

Full-Screen mode

Auto Save saves image versions while making edits

OpenGL ES allows speedy hardware-accelerated image editing; iPad Air and iPhone 5s supports OpenGL ES 3.0

Grand Central Dispatch to take advantage of multicore hardware

Core Image brings near-real-time performance for processing tasks on GPU

vImage improves high-performance image processing tasks on CPU

3D Touch support on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus

Accelerate Framework improves CPU usage on demanding tasks

Neon optimization accelerates custom image processing tasks up to 4x

DisplayLink brings fast and seamless image editing experience

State-of-the-art Painting Engine based on OpenGL ES combined with fast image processing frameworks

8K support lets you open and edit images in stunning 8K resolution on iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, and iPad Mini 4

Languages

English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese

Compatibility

Pixelmator for iOS requires iOS 11 or later.