Crop presets
Pixelmator Pro comes with a number of pre-made presets you can use to quickly crop your image to a number of popular formats. You can also easily create your own presets to use in future projects.
Apply a crop preset
Choose the Crop tool by doing one of the following:
- Click
in the Pixelmator Pro
toolbar. - Choose Image > Crop (from the Image menu at the top of your screen).
- Press the key on your keyboard.
- Click
Click the Constrain pop-up menu.
Select one of the crop Ratio or Size presets.
Save an aspect ratio as a crop preset
- Choose the Crop tool by doing one of the following:
- Click in the Pixelmator Pro
toolbar.
- Choose Image > Crop (from the Image menu at the top of your screen).
- Press the key on your keyboard.
- Click
- Constrain the crop box to your required aspect ratio manually or by entering width and height values into the designated fields.
- In the Tool Options pane, click the Constrain pop-up menu and click
at the top.
Redefine a crop preset
If you’d like to overwrite or update an existing preset with new settings, you can redefine it.
- Choose the Crop tool by doing one of the following:
- Click in the Pixelmator Pro
toolbar.
- Choose Image > Crop (from the Image menu at the top of your screen).
- Press the key on your keyboard.
- Click
- Constrain the crop box to your required aspect ratio.
- In the Tool Options pane, click the Constrain pop-up menu.
- Click the disclosure triangle next to the preset you'd like to redefine and choose Redefine.
Delete a crop preset
If you’d like to remove a preset from your presets collection, you can delete it.
- Choose the Crop tool by doing one of the following:
- Click in the Pixelmator Pro
toolbar.
- Choose Image > Crop (from the Image menu at the top of your screen).
- Press the key on your keyboard.
- Click
- In the Tool Options pane, click the Constrain pop-up menu.
- Click the disclosure triangle next to the preset you'd like to delete and choose Delete.
Rename a crop preset
Choose the Crop tool by doing one of the following:
- Click in the Pixelmator Pro
toolbar.
- Choose Image > Crop (from the Image menu at the top of your screen).
- Press the key on your keyboard.
- Click
In the Tool Options pane, click the Constrain pop-up menu.
- Click the disclosure triangle next to the preset you'd like to rename and choose Rename.
- Enter a new name for your preset and press the key on your keyboard to confirm.