The Pixelmator Team has released Pixelmator Pro 2.1.3, which features a rewriting of the PSD engine from the ground up, adding support for many new features in PSDs and greatly improving existing support. The update also improves support for ABR files (Photoshop brushes) and includes a few additional improvements and fixes.
What’s New
Version 2.1.3
In Pixelmator Pro 2.1.3, the PSD engine, which handles support for Adobe Photoshop files, has been rewritten from the ground up, adding support for many new features in PSDs and greatly improving existing support. The update also improves support for ABR files (Photoshop brushes) and includes a few additional improvements and fixes.
New PSD Engine
• The PSD engine in Pixelmator Pro has been completely rewritten from the ground up, massively improving support for PSD files.
• Shape layers in PSD files will now be opened as shape layers in Pixelmator Pro.
• Many more advanced text features in PSD files are now supported in Pixelmator Pro, including symbol sizes and capitalization.
• Layered TIFFs with embedded PSDs will now be opened with layers in Pixelmator Pro.
• Very large PSD files (in PSB format) are now also supported.
• Certain adjustment layers, such as Hue/Saturation, Exposure, and Channel Mixer will now be preserved when importing PSDs.
• The rendering of effects has been significantly improved, too.
• When exporting to PSD, you can now optimize for Apple pro apps like Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Other Improvements and Fixes
• More properties of ABR brushes are now supported, bringing much improved ABR brush import, including support for 16-bit brushes.
• Maximum brush size has been increased to 5000 pixels.
• When editing the vector points of shapes, pressing the Escape key will now exit editing without unselecting the shape.
• When exporting images to JPEG or TIFF with CMYK color profiles, colors will now be preserved more accurately.
• The selected appearance of the Info button in the toolbar has been updated to better match the look of macOS 11.
• The appearance of the View button in the toolbar has been updated.
• In rare cases, Pixelmator Pro would quit unexpectedly with certain Type tool settings customized in the Touch Bar. Fixed.
Pixelmator Pro 2.1.3 is a free update for owners of previous Pixelmator Pro versions and is currently on sale for 50% at $19.99. It is available now, in the Mac App Store. A 15-day free trial is also available here.