Pixelmator Pro User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Intro to automatic image editing
- Automatically increase image resolution
- Remove or hide an image background
- Automatically enhance image color
- Automatically match image colors
- Remove color banding in an image
- Automatically reduce image noise
- Automatically crop and straighten images
- Decontaminate image colors
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- Use presets from your Mac on your iPad
- Use the Pixelmator Pro toolbar
- Pixelmator Pro tools
- Use color controls
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Customize the Tools sidebar
- About the Pixelmator Pro file format
- Supported media formats
- Work with RAW files
- About Pixelmator Pro sidecar files
- Use the Pixelmator Pro Photos extension
- Restore an earlier document version
- Copyright and trademarks
Customize the Tools sidebar on Mac
The Tools sidebar on the right side of the Pixelmator Pro window contains tools for painting, drawing, graphic design, and photo editing. The default toolset is arranged by function in a vertical strip on the far right: There are groups of tools for making selections, for painting and erasing, for retouching, and more.
You can add, remove, group, or arrange tools in the Tools sidebar for specific workflows. For instance, if you’re mainly using Pixelmator Pro for illustration, you can remove retouching, selection, repair, and any other tools that you don’t typically use when working with vector shapes.
In Pixelmator Pro on Mac, click
at the bottom of the Tools sidebar, then choose Customize Tools.
Do any of the following in the window that opens:
Rearrange the order of tools: Drag a tool or a group of tools to a new position in the top row.
Group tools: Drag a tool from the lower section of the window to the top row, then release.
Remove a tool from a tool group: Click a tool group with a More badge
in the top row, then position the pointer over a tool name and click
Add a tool to the Tools sidebar: Drag a tool from the lower section of the window to the top row.
Remove a tool from the Tools sidebar: Drag a tool out of the top row.
To discard all your current changes, click Reset at the bottom of the window; to revert to the original Pixelmator Pro toolset, click Revert to Default Set.