Tile effects in Pixelmator Pro on Mac
Pixelmator Pro includes Tile effects to transform layer content into geometric repeating patterns:
Kaleidoscope creates symmetrical reflections in kaleidoscopic patterns.
Triangle Kaleidoscope creates kaleidoscopic patterns with triangular segments.
Snowflake produces patterns using eight-way reflected symmetry resembling snowflakes.
Tessera creates patterns by reflecting in parallelograms with angled segments.
Pinwheel rotates images at 90° increments for pinwheel-like patterns.
Shutters produces patterns with four adjustable angles.
Brickwork creates patterns in a brick wall style with customizable tile sizes.
Op creates optical art-style patterns by segmenting and transforming image pieces.
Funhouse makes tiled parallelograms that mimic a funhouse mirror effect.
Lattice sections images into hexagonal fragments for mosaic effects.
Windmill rotates images at 60-degree increments resembling windmill sails.
Triangle tiles triangular segments of your image with size and decay controls.
Hexagon creates patterns by rotating at 30-degree increments with hexagonal shapes.
Affine Tile stretches, skews, and rotates images before tiling the transformed result.
Perspective Tile changes image perspective then tiles using the perspective-adjusted version.
Tile effect controls
Tile effects have the following adjustment controls in the Effects pane. You can access the controls after applying an effect to a layer or adding an effects layer.
Control | Used in these effects | Description |
|---|---|---|
Angle | Most tile effects | Rotate this wheel to adjust the rotation of the tiled pattern. |
Width | Most tile effects | Drag this slider to control the size of individual segments that make up the pattern. |
Count | Kaleidoscope | Drag this slider to control the number of reflections in the kaleidoscope pattern. Higher values create more complex, detailed patterns. |
Size | Triangle Kaleidoscope | Drag this slider to control the size of triangular elements. |
Decay | Triangle Kaleidoscope | Drag this slider to control sharpness and vignetting of the pattern. |
Rotation | Triangle Kaleidoscope | Rotate this wheel to rotate the pattern. |
Scale | Op, Affine Tile | Drag this slider to control the scale of the tiles relative to the original image. |
Stretch | Affine Tile | Drag this slider to horizontally stretch or compress the image before tiling. |
Skew | Affine Tile | Drag this slider to skew the image before tiling. |
Acute Angle | Tessera, Shutters, Funhouse | Rotate this wheel to adjust the shape of individual tiles. |
Effect ropes | All tile effects | Drag these onscreen controls to position the center point of the tile pattern. If effect ropes aren’t visible, click |