It also makes improvements in its various tools, cursor updating, and much more. Pixelmator Tempo adds such new features as Magic Eraser (a.k.a. Instant Alpha, a click-and-drag tool), the Magic Wand (now a click-and-drag tool with an anti-aliasing ability), the Paint Bucket (now a click-and-drag tool with an anti-aliasing ability), new hue and saturation features, a new Replace Color tool, a new Colorize tool, Better Stroke with live preview, Smart palette hide, and Action tooltips. It's also localized in French and Spanish languages.
Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, it sports selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images.
Pixelmator has a New Layer from iSight feature that lets you take a snapshot with Mac's built-in video camera and adding the snapshot as a layer in composition. The Photo Browser palette in Pixelmator offers access to iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums, and pictures in the user's Pictures folder. Also, the user can drag and drop any of those images as layers in Pixelmator composition.
Pixelmator is based on Core Image and OpenGL technologies that use Mac's video card for image processing. Core Image and OpenGL utilize the graphics card for image processing operations, freeing the CPU for other tasks. If a high-performance card with increased video memory (VRAM) is present, the user will find real-time responsiveness across a wide variety of Pixelmator operations, including editing tools, color correction tools, and filters, according to Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team.
Pixelmator supports more than 100 different file formats, including Photoshop images with layers, and it comes with more than 15 color correction tools and 50 Core Image-powered filters, transform tools, fill and stroke, gradients, QuickMask mode, full-screen editing mode, Automator support, ColorSync support, Spotlight support, and more. A demo is available at the Pixelmaator Team web site. Pixelmator is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
