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
Adjust white balance in Pixelmator Pro on Mac
Sometimes photos have unwanted color casts created by the conditions they were shot in. Use the White Balance controls in the Color Adjustments pane to remove color casts automatically or manually. You can also use these controls to create a specific mood in an image by adjusting the color temperature or green and magenta tints.
Automatically adjust white balance
The auto white balance feature intelligently analyzes your image to detect people, landscapes, and skies, and then automatically fixes color casts.
In Pixelmator Pro on Mac, select a layer in the Layers sidebar.
Select
in the Tools sidebar, then turn on White Balance in the Color Adjustments pane.
Click
next to White Balance.
To reset the white balance adjustment click
next to White Balance in the Color Adjustments options.
Manually adjust white balance
In Pixelmator Pro on Mac, select a layer in the Layers sidebar.
Select
In the White Balance section, do any of following:
Drag the Temperature slider left to cool the image or right to warm it.
Drag the Tint slider left to add green (or remove magenta) or right to add magenta (or remove green).
Tip: Press and hold the Option key while dragging the Temperature or Tint slider to extend the white balance range beyond 100%.
Set the white balance from a neutral grey: Click
, then click a neutral grey area in your image. Pixelmator Pro adjusts the color temperature based on your selection.
To reset the white balance adjustment, click