Pixelmator Pro User Guide for iPad
- 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
- Copyright and trademarks
Intro to masks in Pixelmator Pro on iPad
Masks let you control which parts of a layer or layer group are visible. Instead of erasing pixels, a mask hides or reveals parts of a layer nondestructively, so that you can refine your edits or restore hidden areas at any time. Use masks to combine multiple images seamlessly, so that the layer under a masked layer is visible through the masked area.
In Pixelmator Pro, there are several different types of masks:
Bitmap mask: A pixel-based mask can be manually adjusted by painting in the canvas using a brush tool.
Vector mask: A vector-based shape mask added to a layer as any shape or by drawing in the canvas using a vector pen tool.
Clipping mask: Two or more layers with linked masks.
After you add a mask to a layer, you can invert the mask or refine it using any of the selection and retouching tools in the Tools sidebar.
A mask is shown in the Layers sidebar as a black-and-white thumbnail directly under the layer it masks. In the thumbnail, black corresponds to pixels that are hidden by the mask, and white corresponds to areas that are not hidden by the mask.