Love your product but am struggling with the Effects Browser a little bit. 3rd Party Effects that put their name in each plugin don’t allow you to see the full name of the effect in the browser.
This could be fixed by having a list view in the browser.
Thanks
Ausra
October 17th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Thanks, Sean, for the suggestion!
Russ
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Is there a way to make the effects browser window wider. I can’t tell what some effects are because they are truncated by the short width of the effects browser.
Ausra
October 24th, 2012 at 7:56 am
@Russ, yes! Just grab the border and drag to expand the Effects Browser.
andryou
November 27th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
How do I find out what the effects are attached to a layer
Ausra
November 29th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
@andryou, you cannot view the effects applied to a layer at this moment.
Ken
December 4th, 2012 at 2:24 am
This is a very difficult program. Nothing works as it says in the tutorial or help. Sometimes I get it to do what I want, but I tried so many ways of doing it, I forget which one worked. The effects tools do not work at all. Double-click on effect tool, nothing happens. Drag it and it zips right back. There must be some undisclosed prerequisite action, but I can’t figure out what it is.
Ausra
December 4th, 2012 at 7:31 am
@Ken, you can apply effects to the image layers only, if you apply an effect to the Text layer, or a Shape layer it won’t work.
dave
December 5th, 2012 at 7:52 am
where is the effects browser??? all i see is the layer. your tutorial is a fail. it doesnt tell u where it is. its not in any menu item. fail.
Ausra
December 5th, 2012 at 8:05 am
@dave, the Effects Browser is available in Pixelmator 2.1, or later. You can bring up the Effects Browser by choosing View > Show Effects.
Bill
January 17th, 2013 at 3:17 am
Is it possible to edit an effect after it has been applied?
Ausra
January 17th, 2013 at 7:54 am
@Bill, you cannot edit an effect once it’s applied.
I see that if I turn a text layer into pixels I can then apply an effect to it – but are there any text specific effects like bevel etc.? I found shadow in the Mac font browser.
Even though I get a preview that makes it seem like I can tweak the desaturate effect in the effects browser, applying the effect with completely desaturate the layer?
At least no adjustment dialog appears anywhere.
If Desaturate cannot be tweaked, I don’t think the preview should gradually desaturate the image. Very misleading and frustrating when it only appears to be on or off.
Semantics only, but some effects can be tweaked after they have been applied, but no effects can be edited after they have been committed 😉
Brandon
October 26th, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Is it my imagination or did the upgrade to Pixelmator 3.0 drop a ton of effects? I’ve spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out what happened to the Ascii Art filter.
Having an absolute nightmare over here! Trying to replicate something I did in pixelmator only a few months ago and having no luck whatsoever. For some reason I can no longer add an effect to anything but the background image; there are other image layers on the document, but it will only let me add an effect to the large image I have made the background … HEEEELLLPPP!!
Andrius (Pixelmator Team)
September 29th, 2016 at 6:05 am
@Bethan
Before you add the effect, could you try clicking to select a specific layer in the Layer palette? If you’ve tried that already and this still happens, could you drop us an email at support@pixelmator.com? We’ll take a look at what might be up.
Iggy
March 23rd, 2017 at 4:45 am
Got a third party generator. It’s built for pixelmator but it doesn’t come up on the menu. Any suggestions. I love the app by the way it’s very powerful
Love your product but am struggling with the Effects Browser a little bit. 3rd Party Effects that put their name in each plugin don’t allow you to see the full name of the effect in the browser.
This could be fixed by having a list view in the browser.
Thanks
Thanks, Sean, for the suggestion!
Is there a way to make the effects browser window wider. I can’t tell what some effects are because they are truncated by the short width of the effects browser.
@Russ, yes! Just grab the border and drag to expand the Effects Browser.
How do I find out what the effects are attached to a layer
@andryou, you cannot view the effects applied to a layer at this moment.
This is a very difficult program. Nothing works as it says in the tutorial or help. Sometimes I get it to do what I want, but I tried so many ways of doing it, I forget which one worked. The effects tools do not work at all. Double-click on effect tool, nothing happens. Drag it and it zips right back. There must be some undisclosed prerequisite action, but I can’t figure out what it is.
@Ken, you can apply effects to the image layers only, if you apply an effect to the Text layer, or a Shape layer it won’t work.
where is the effects browser??? all i see is the layer. your tutorial is a fail. it doesnt tell u where it is. its not in any menu item. fail.
@dave, the Effects Browser is available in Pixelmator 2.1, or later. You can bring up the Effects Browser by choosing View > Show Effects.
Is it possible to edit an effect after it has been applied?
@Bill, you cannot edit an effect once it’s applied.
I see that if I turn a text layer into pixels I can then apply an effect to it – but are there any text specific effects like bevel etc.? I found shadow in the Mac font browser.
So,
Even though I get a preview that makes it seem like I can tweak the desaturate effect in the effects browser, applying the effect with completely desaturate the layer?
At least no adjustment dialog appears anywhere.
If Desaturate cannot be tweaked, I don’t think the preview should gradually desaturate the image. Very misleading and frustrating when it only appears to be on or off.
All comments welcome.
@Ausra @Bill
Semantics only, but some effects can be tweaked after they have been applied, but no effects can be edited after they have been committed 😉
Is it my imagination or did the upgrade to Pixelmator 3.0 drop a ton of effects? I’ve spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out what happened to the Ascii Art filter.
Having an absolute nightmare over here! Trying to replicate something I did in pixelmator only a few months ago and having no luck whatsoever. For some reason I can no longer add an effect to anything but the background image; there are other image layers on the document, but it will only let me add an effect to the large image I have made the background … HEEEELLLPPP!!
@Bethan
Before you add the effect, could you try clicking to select a specific layer in the Layer palette? If you’ve tried that already and this still happens, could you drop us an email at support@pixelmator.com? We’ll take a look at what might be up.
Got a third party generator. It’s built for pixelmator but it doesn’t come up on the menu. Any suggestions. I love the app by the way it’s very powerful