The already fantastic Pixelmator for iPad app has received a major update to version 1.1, and now includes a unique watercolor painting technology, a collection of artist-designed watercolor brushes, a new Color Picker, twice as fast painting performance, and more.
The update, version 1.1 and codenamed Aquarelle, offers watercolor painting technology, along with 12 new artist-designed watercolor brushes, that allow artists to beautiful watercolor paintings right on their iPad.
“Beautifully-designed by watercolor artists brushes from the new watercolor brushes’ collection apply colors with watery strokes. When strokes overlap, their colors blend creating an entirely new color with a soft gradient in-between just like applying paint on paper with a wet brush.”
Pixelmator can also open and edit RAW images, has a brand new color picker, a new color grid, 2X faster painting performance, better photoshop support, ability to insert photo as a new layer from iCloud Drive, Lock Alpha, open RAW previews, a refreshed Eyedropper, Live Brush Preview, and better stylus support.
What’s New in Pixelmator 1.1:
- Unique watercolor painting technology allows creating real-life-looking watercolor paintings
- 12 new beautiful artist-designed watercolor brushes
- The new Color Picker now features the history of your previously used colors
- Use the new Color Grid in the new Color Picker to pick colors even more precisely
- Optimized Painting Engine gives you up to 2 times faster painting performance
- Now you can open 16-bit RGB, CMYK and Grayscale Photoshop image previews, as well as Photoshop images containing layer masks
- Insert an image as a new layer right from your iCloud Drive
- Use the Lock Alpha feature to paint on the non-transparent parts of a layer
- Preview of your brush while adjusting its settings
- Open and edit RAW image previews
- Full support for Adonit Jot Script, Jot Touch 4, Jot Touch with Pixelpoint styluses
- Enhanced stylus pressure sensitivity with all styluses
Attention to detail
- Scale images without constraining proportions: Tools > Format > Arrange > Constrain Proportions
- Invert image colors with the new Invert color adjustment preset
- Open PDF files from your email or any other app
- See precise color values while selecting colors with the Eyedropper
- Adjust the settings of an effect more accurately with enhanced slider sensitivity
- Zoom into your image while still tweaking the effect’s settings
- Rotate text more accurately with the new text rotation slider: Tools > Format > Arrange
- Toggle between full-screen mode more easily
- Optimized memory use allows to undo much faster while painting
- Cleaner Eyedropper Interface
- Refreshed look of the Gradient Picker
- Auto Save improvements
- Updated Wacom Stylus SDK for even more precise painting
Fixes:
- Memory leak fixes
- Fixed Eyedropper crashes that happened while rotating the device
- Fixed adding layer from Photo Stream
- Fixed transforming maximum-sized layers
- Paint freely without affecting locked or hidden layers
- Smoothly transform maximum-sized layers
- The image no longer dims when adjusting the effect’s strength
This update is available free of charge to current Pixelmator users, and is available for new purchases for $9.99 in the App Store. (iPad/iOS 8.1 Only) [DIRECT LINK]
