Perfect the colors of your photos with Pixelmator Color Tool right inside the Photos app. Use the Auto Enhance effect to instantly adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation of an image.
Perfect the colors and contrast of an image with the Levels, Curves and Color Balance effects. Easily replace one color of your image with any other color using the Replace Color Effect. Reapply the last used effect on a different layer with the Command-Shift-F keyboard shortcut. Retouch your favorite shots with Pixelmator retouching tools inside the Photos app. Reshape areas of an image with Pixelmator Distort Tools inside your Photos app.
Try removing objects with different repairing modes. Choose the tool, click the gear icon and change the mode. To repair objects on a different layer, choose the Repair Tool, click the gear icon and choose Sample All Layers.
Wipe-away selected objects. Make a selection, choose the Repair Tool, click the gear icon and Repair Selection. When cloning with the Clone Stamp Tool, hold down the Option key and click to choose a new source area. Choose a softer brush while using the Clone Tool to blend in the cloned area more seamlessly. Use the Magic Eraser to quickly remove a solid color background from an image. Explore 9 different groups with more than Pixelmator effects.
Go to the View menu and choose Show Effects. Use the Command-3 keyboard shortcut to quickly show or hide the Effects Browser. Easily change all or just the specific colors of your image using the Hue effect.
Bring-in some sunlight and give your photos a retro look with the beautiful Light Leak effect. Give your image a vintage look by adding some monochrome noise with the Noise effect. Change the weather in your images with the Fog, Rain, or Snow effects from the Stylize category. Control-click the canvas to quickly change the brush size and hardness while painting. Hold down the Option key and click to quickly pick a color from your image while painting.
Double-click the Brush Tool in the Tools palette to quickly show the Brushes palette. Easily share any of your brushes by dragging them out of the Brushes palette and onto the Desktop.
Importing brushes is a breeze — just drag them onto the Pixelmator icon in the Dock. Select even the most challenging areas with a single brushstroke, with the new Quick Selection Tool. Easily select detailed objects with the new Magnetic Selection Tool which snaps to the edges you trace. Use different selection modes to quickly add areas to or subtract from your selection. When using the Marquee tools, hold down the Spacebar after starting a selection to move it. Easily copy and reuse layer styles.
Control-click the layer in the Layers palette to copy and paste. Rotate a layer in precise steps by holding down the Shift key as you rotate. Hold down the Option key while resizing a layer to scale it in the opposite direction as well.
Hold down the Command key as you move a layer to stop it from snapping to other objects. Illustrations are commonly made up of a few main shapes and smaller ones that add detail, so first try to identify its main shapes. In our drawing, that would be the hair, head, arms, body, legs, and skateboard. Draw another ellipse, then move it below the hair layer. To refine the shape of the head without having to adjust anchor points and direction lines, you can use the Transform tool in Pixelmator Pro, which works nondestructively with shape layers.
In our illustration, the these are one shape and the legs are made up of two main shapes. For the arms and torso, the color is FFB After drawing it, drag the darker leg behind the lighter one in the Layers sidebar. Another way to add some depth is using some darker shadow shapes, like here, under the arm. Draw the shadow to be slightly larger than the area it should fill, then use it to create a Clipping Mask.
The skateboard itself is another relatively simple shape, which the Pen tool is perfect for. The color here is 50A6C7. For the wheels, a neat trick to getting a consistent cylindrical shape is to draw two ellipses and edit the anchor points of one of them to extend it back to the original. Below, you can see what that process looks like. To do this, first draw an ellipse. The darker wheel color is A. Then, duplicate the ellipse, move it to the right edge of the wheel, and divide that path.
Move the two new anchor points towards the other ellipse. Finally, change the color of the longer shape to FF and, in the Layers sidebar, move it below the darker ellipse.
To finish off the illustration, you can add some smaller details as well as a background.
