There you can select "Heal selection." There's no other way to access this in the menus or from right-clicking the tool palette. To "heal" an entire selection, you have to first make a selection using any or all of the various selection tools, switch to the healing tool, and then click the tiny gear icon that appears in the options bar. Clicking on the healing tool-its icon is a band-aid-switches to a brush that allows you to simply brush away imperfections. One other thing worth mentioning is that the tool can work with arbitrary selections, but the method to do so was not intuitive (at least to me, as I don't use Pixelmator on a day-to-day basis). When it does work, though, it can make quick work of otherwise complicated work involving cloning, tone matching, and noise or texture matching. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of the tool depends largely on image content itself you won't really know until you try it. Trying to remove a plant from the background of one test image, however, wasn't nearly as successful. It also works really well on stray hairs, dust spots, or other minor imperfections. It may take a few tries to get the brush strokes the right length and angle, but the resulting touchup can look very natural. Not bad at all.īrushing over some wrinkles in skin, for instance, works quite well. This allows you to hide lesser-used tools, but easily access them when needed.īefore and after about 5 minutes with the healing brush. According to developer Saulius Dailide, dragging a tool on top of another and holding will cause them to group. All the shape tools are collected under one icon, but it's not obvious that you can do the same for other related tools, such as brushes or selection tools. Unfortunately, the only way to access tools you've removed from the palette is to add them back. A new context-sensitive tool options bar helps mitigate the problem somewhat, and an optional and customizable info bar keeps relevant image data viewable at all times.Īlso new in version 2.0 is the ability to customize the tool palette with your favorite tools. I personally am not a fan of manually managing all those palettes (a source of constant frustration in iWork apps, for instance), and it would be nice if Pixelmator allowed for some kind of automatic palette arrangement or management. This seems to be due both to the way Lion's fullscreen mode is implemented as well as old assumptions about how users want to work with multiple files.Įven in fullscreen mode, though, you will have to contend with moving around Pixelmator's various HUD-style tool palettes. The updated version adds support for Lion's fullscreen mode, but we think it needs some way to manage multiple images within the fullscreen mode. The interface is slick, if not always the easiest to read due to small font sizes. We reviewed Pixelmator 1.6 earlier this year, and most of what you may read in that review is applicable to the latest version. Ars decided to take the new version for a quick hands-on look and see how the changes add to an already capable imaging tool.
PIXELMATOR FILTER FULL
The popular alternative to Adobe's oft-overwhelming Photoshop adds a number of new drawing and retouching tools along with Lion integration, including support for Full Screen, Versions, and Auto Save.
PIXELMATOR FILTER MAC OS X
The Pixelmator team revved its Mac OS X image editor Pixelmator to version 2.0 on Thursday.
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