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
Make a clipping mask in Pixelmator Pro on Mac
A clipping mask connects (“clips”) two layers together, forming a group of layers called a clipping set. In a clipping set, the bottom layer (also called the base layer) sets the boundaries for the group. Any parts of the upper layer that go beyond the edges of the bottom layer are hidden (masked). The parts of the image within the mask are visible within the unmasked parts of the image. This is useful for cropping an image inside of text.
Add a clipping mask
In Pixelmator Pro on Mac, select a layer in the Layers sidebar to use as a base layer, then drag it below one or more layers in the Layers sidebar.
Control-click the layer on top of the base layer, then choose Create Clipping Mask.
A clipping mask set is created with the two layers. Only areas of the top layer that overlap the bottom layer are visible.
Release a clipping mask
After you create a clipping set, you can easily break it apart.
In Pixelmator Pro on Mac, Control-click a clipping mask layer, then choose Release Clipping Mask.