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Pixelmator Pro User Guide for iPad
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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
  • What’s new
    • What is Pixelmator Pro?
    • Pixelmator Pro interface
      • What is Apple Creator Studio?
      • Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
    • Create a new document
    • Open a document
    • Replace an image
    • Create from templates and mockups
    • Save, name, and close documents
    • Intro to layers
    • Create layers
    • Select layers
    • Organize and manage layers
    • Navigate the canvas
    • Use rulers, guides, and other canvas overlays
      • Use the Arrange tool
      • Move and align layers
      • Resize, rotate, and flip layers
    • Rasterize vector layers
    • Work with video layers
    • Intro to selection tools
    • Make intelligent selections
    • Make geometric selections
    • Select areas by drawing in the canvas
    • Modify selections
    • Intro to color adjustments
    • Apply color adjustments in Pixelmator Pro
      • White balance an image
      • Adjust hue, saturation, and vibrance
      • Adjust exposure, brightness, and contrast
    • Selectively adjust clarity and texture
    • Color grade an image
      • Adjust tonal levels
      • Adjust tonal curves
      • Mix color channels
      • Convert an image to monochrome
      • Remove and replace colors in an image or video
      • Invert the colors of an image
    • Add stylized finishing effects
    • Sharpen an image
    • Apply color adjustment presets
    • Apply LUTs
    • 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
    • Add and manage effects
    • Adjust effects
      • Intro to effect categories
      • Blur effects
      • Distortion effects
      • Sharpen effects
      • Color Adjustment effects
      • Tile effects
      • Stylize effects
      • Halftone effects
      • Generator effects
      • Fill effects
      • Other effects
    • Use effects presets
    • Apply styles to layers
    • Adjust the opacity of a layer
    • Change the blend mode of a layer
    • Add an outline around a layer
    • Fill a layer with a color or gradient
    • Add an inner shadow to a layer
    • Add a drop shadow to a layer
    • Use layer style presets
    • Transform a layer
    • Warp a layer
    • Intro to retouching and reshaping
    • Repair, remove, and clone objects in images
    • Lighten or darken areas of an image
    • Sharpen and soften areas of images
    • Smudge an image
    • Adjust color saturation in areas of an image
    • Reshape areas of an image
    • Intro to painting
    • Paint and erase using brushes
    • Paint and erase with the Pixel Paint tool
    • Fill a layer or selection with color
    • Fill specific areas of an image with color
    • Fill a layer with a color gradient
    • Erase similarly colored areas of an image
    • Manage brushes
    • Customize brush settings
    • Draw vector shapes and graphics
    • Combine shapes
    • Draw shapes with the Pen tool
    • Draw shapes with the Freeform Pen tool
    • Edit vector paths
    • Manage shapes and collections
    • Add basic text
    • Add text on a path
    • Modify fonts
    • Format text characters
    • Change the color of text
    • Align and space text
    • Use text style presets
    • Convert text into a shape or pixel layer
    • Intro to masks
    • Add and edit bitmap masks
    • Add and edit vector masks
    • Make a clipping mask
    • Crop and straighten images
    • Rotate or flip an image
    • Trim the edges of the canvas
    • Reveal parts of an image beyond the canvas
    • Resize an image
    • Change the canvas size
    • About color management
    • Change the color profile of an image
    • Change the color depth of an image
    • Export photos, videos, and documents
    • Quickly export or share an optimized image
    • Print a document
      • Change settings
    • 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
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