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
Remove or hide an image background in Pixelmator Pro on Mac
You can quickly remove the background from an image with the Remove Background feature in Pixelmator Pro. Remove Background works best for images with solid colored backgrounds, such as a product shot taken in a studio, or a studio portrait. For images with busier backgrounds, Remove Background can help isolate your subject, but you may need to do additional work to remove the background completely. You can also use Remove Background to mask (hide) the background in an image instead of deleting it.
In Pixelmator Pro on Mac, select a layer in the Layers sidebar.
Do either of the following:
Remove the background from an image: Click
in the toolbar.
Pixelmator Pro automatically deletes the background.
Hide the background in an image: While pressing and holding the Option key, click
Pixelmator Pro automatically adds a layer mask to hide the background.
Important: If you use Remove Background on a layer group, Pixelmator Pro creates a layer mask, hiding the background instead of deleting it. To delete the background, you can use Remove Background on each layer within the group individually.