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My favorite Photoshop alternative, Pixelmator, was updated this morning on the Mac App Store with some notable new features, bug fixes and enhancements. Pixelmator 3.5 for Mac, a free update for those who own the app, includes the new Smart Selection and Magnetic Selection tools, a new Retouch extension for Photos which provides a full set of powerful retouching tools, and more.
Quick Selection tool
The new Quick Selection tool is smart in that it lets you select even the most challenging areas with a few simple brushstrokes. You simply paint over an area you want to select and the advanced algorithm detects the object you want to select.
Magnetic Selection tool
The new Magnetic Selection tool lets you select objects precisely in just a few clicks. After choosing the Magnetic Selection tool in the tools palette, simply start your selection by clicking anywhere on the edge of an object you want to select.
As you move the pointer, the tool automatically snaps around the object, making precise object selection ridiculously easy.
Retouch extension for the Photos app
First, you must enable this extension.
Go to System Preferences → Extensions, then click Photos in the lefthand column and in the righthand column tick the box next to “Pixelmator Retouch”.
You can now edit the images within the context of the Photos app using Pixelmator’s retouching tools.
Simply select an image in Photos, then click Edit. Now choose Pixelmator Retouch from the Extensions menu and start editing the photo.
Here’s Pixelmator’s new Photos extension in action.
Pixelmator 3.5 for Mac highlights
Here’s what’s new and improved in Pixelmator 3.5 for Mac:
New features:
- The smart Quick Selection Tool lets you select even the most challenging areas with a single brushstroke.
- The new Magnetic Selection Tool snaps to the edges you trace, so that you can make detailed selections quickly and precisely.
- The new Pixelmator Retouch Extension for Photos adds a full set of powerful retouching tools to your Photos app.
Other improvements and fixes>:
- On OS X El Capitan, the totally redesigned Stroke effect is now up to 15 times faster and much smoother.
- Thanks to the redesigned Stroke effect, resizing a selection with the Refine Selection dialog is also up to 15 times faster (on OS X El Capitan).
- The outlines that you get when using the Color Selection Tool, Paint Bucket Tool and the Magic Eraser Tool are much smoother and more precise (on OS X El Capitan).
- In the Pixelmator Distort Extension, the brush size now auto-adjusts as you zoom in and out of your image, so it always stays the right size.
- When using the Repair Tool, double-clicking the canvas would resize the document window. Fixed.
- Choosing the Red Eye Tool when editing tiny images made the app quit unexpectedly. We fixed that, too.
- When using the Glass, Vintage, Noise, Rain, Snow, or Sketch effects on layers smaller than the canvas, some pixels at the edges of the layer would be stretched across the empty areas. We fixed this.
- The preview animation shown in the Bar Swipe effect thumbnail was shown at an angle. Fixed.
- While transforming a layer with a shadow, small, grey squares would sometimes appear on the canvas. Not anymore.
- The Column Marquee Tool would sometimes make selections that were 1 pixel wider than they were supposed to be. Now they are pixel-perfect.
- When refining a selection with the Clone Stamp Tool selected, parts of the red selection overlay that marks the non-selected area would sometimes disappear. We fixed this.
- When a text layer was used as an overlay for a clipping mask, converting it into a pixel layer would cause the text to disappear. Fixed.
- Sometimes, the coordinates of a shape layer could get lost and this would make it impossible to save or open the document. Fixed.
- Improved stability when opening PSD files with specific Photoshop text features.
- On OS X 10.9, the Add to iPhoto option was missing from the Share menu. It’s back.
- On OS X 10.10, when applying Blur effects to layers that don’t fill the entire canvas, some pixels at the edges of the layer would be stretched across the empty areas. Fixed.
- On Mac computers with a Retina Display, the effect preview, which is shown on your image while a Color Adjustment dialog is open, made the image look slightly blurred. Fixed.
- On iMac computers with 4K Retina Displays, when painting with a brush-based tool, moving the brush outside the document window made the screen flicker. We fixed this.
- In the Pixelmator Distort extension, clicking the image before choosing a tool would automatically select the Warp Tool. It now works as it should.
- Other stability improvements.
As mentioned, this is a free update for those who own the app.
Pricing and availability
Pixelmator for OS X requires an Intel-based Mac with a 64-bit processor and OS X 10.9.5 or later. It’s localized in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
Pixelmator for Mac is $29.99 on the Mac App Store.
Pixelmator for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad will set you back $4.99.
Use the Selection pane to manage objects in your document: re-order them, show or hide them, and group or ungroup them.
Once you've inserted shapes, text boxes, SmartArt graphics, images, or other objects, you can open the Selection Pane to keep track of them all.
The objects are listed in the pane in visual stacking order—top-to-bottom. The most recently inserted object is at the top of the list.
Change the order of the objects
Select an object in your file.
Select the ... Format tab that appears on the right end of the ribbon, and then, in the Arrange group, choose Selection Pane.
Select one or more items in the list. (Use Ctrl+Click to multi-select).
Drag the selection upward or downward, or click the up (Bring Forward) or down (Send Backward) arrow .
Note: For an object that's in a group, you can only reorder it within the group.
Group objects
Select an object in your file.
Select the ... Format tab that appears on the right end of the ribbon, and then, in the Arrange group, choose Selection Pane.
In the pane, use Ctrl+Click to select the items you want to group.
On the ... Format tab at the right end of the ribbon, select Group > Group (or Arrange > Group > Group).
After grouping the objects, you can format them or move or them on the canvas as a single entity. For more information, see Group or ungroup shapes, pictures, or other objects.
You can select multiple objects within a group and the groups within it, but you can't select objects within groups together with objects not in groups.
Hide objects
Hiding an object keeps it in the file, but makes it invisible. This feature should be used with caution, because it can be easy to entirely forget about a hidden object.
Select an object in your file.
Select the ... Format tab that appears on the right end of the ribbon, and then, in the Arrange group, choose Selection Pane.
In the pane, select an item in the list.
On the right side of the item, click the 'open eye' button. . This action hides the object.
To make the object visible again, just click the 'closed eye' button .
To see an object that's under another object, you can hide the object on top temporarily, make the changes you want, and then show the object on top again.
Tips
In Word, inline objects are listed in the Selection Pane, but you can't reorder them, hide them, or multi-select them.
In Word, you can reorder objects above the text among other objects above the text, but you can’t move it behind the text. Similarly, you can reorder objects below the text among other objects below the text, but you can’t move it above the text. To move an object behind the text or above the text, right-click the object on the canvas, choose Send to Back > Send Behind Text, or choose Bring to Front > Bring in Front of Text.
After you select an item in the Selection pane, you can click again to change the name of the item. In PowerPoint for Office 365, this ability comes in handy for using the Morph transition. See Morph tips and tricks for details.
By default, the most recently inserted object is at the top of the list in the Selection pane, and the first object inserted is at the bottom of the list.
Keyboard shortcuts
You can use these keyboard shortcuts in the Selection pane:
To do this | Press |
|---|---|
Move the keyboard focus through the major regions until it is in the Selection Pane | F6 |
Navigate by keyboard through the buttons in the pane and then into the list | Tab |
Move the focus among the items in the list | Up arrow, down arrow |
Select an item in the list | Enter or spacebar |
Edit the name of the item in the list that has focus | F2 |
Add/remove the item from the selection (that is, multi-select) | Shift+Enter or Shift+spacebar |
Toggle the visibility of the selected item | Ctrl+Shift+S |
Send the selected items backward | Ctrl+Shift+B |
Bring the selected items forward | Ctrl+Shift+F |
Collapse all groups | Alt+Shift+1 |
Expand all groups | Alt+Shift+9 |
Reading order
In PowerPoint and Excel, the reading order (for screen readers) of content is closely related to the order shown in the Selection pane.
Word When a screen reader reads through a file, the objects are read in the order or their anchors.
Excel When a screen reader reads through a file, the objects are read in the order listed in the Selection Pane.
PowerPoint When a screen reader reads through a file, it reads the objects in the reverse order listed in the Selection pane.
Once you've inserted shapes, text boxes, SmartArt graphics, images, or other objects, you can open the Selection Pane to manage them all.
(This feature is available in newer versions of Office for Mac. It isn't available in Office for Mac 2011.)
Mac System Tools
Select one of the objects you want to manage.
Select the ... Format tab that appears on at the right end of the ribbon when you select the object, and then choose Selection Pane (or Arrange > Selection Pane).
The Selection Pane opens with all your objects listed, and you can do any of the following:
Drag an item up or down in the list to change the order. In the example below from PowerPoint, moving the curved connector to the top of the list also brought it forward in front of the two oval shapes (and everything else on the slide).
In the example pictured, the connector is at the bottom of the list, and is behind the two oval shapes.
After the connector is moved to the top of the list, it appears in front of the two oval shapes.
Choose to show or hide objects from the Selection Pane. To hide an object, click the eye icon in the Selection Pane indicating that the object is Showing . The icon will change to a simple icon indicating that the object is Hidden from view. To show the object once again, simply click the Hidden icon , and the object will reappear.
The connector in the example above is hidden, and does not appear on the slide.
Group or ungroup objects listed in the Selection Pane. If you select multiple objects by using ⌘ + Click, you can then group them or ungroup them by selecting Group Objects on the ribbon in the Format tab.