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"Pixelmator is a perfect fit for anyone who is passionate about image editing," said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. "And now with the breakthrough version 1.5 Spider features, Pixelmator becomes one of the world's best tools for exporting images for the Web."
The new Web tools in Pixelmator allow users to prepare and export images for the Web with minimal effort, whether it is an individual image or a complex page layout. Images can be optimized and saved in Web-standard JPEG, PNG, or GIF file formats with different quality settings.
The new powerful Slice tool in Pixelmator can be used to slice an image into pieces, allowing each piece of an image to be optimized and saved using its own optimization settings. Saving an optimized part of an image is as easy as dragging and dropping it onto the desktop. The file size and preview of optimized slices or images are available in nearly real-time in the Pixelmator window.
Pixelmator also comes with a useful Web Color plug-in for the Apple Color Palette, allowing Web designers to select and copy hexadecimal colors quickly to the HTML or CSS application. The new Info Labels feature unobtrusively shows useful information depending on the tool in use such as selection, crop and slice sizes, tolerance levels for Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, and Magic Eraser, gradient angle and radius, transform dimensions, and more. The new Trim feature allows quick and easy cropping of an image by trimming surrounding transparent pixels or background pixels in a specified color.
New Or Enhanced Features:
Save for Web
Easily prepare your images for the Web by optimizing the image, either entire or slice by slice, using the powerful Slice tool.
Send To (Mail and iPhoto)
Use to attach your Pixelmator image quickly and simply to an email message or to send it to your iPhoto Library.
Web Colors Plug-in
Use the Web Colors Plug-in to quickly select and copy hexadecimal color to your HTML or CSS applications.
Info Labels
Info labels show useful information about the tool in use, such as tolerance, angle, size, coordinates, etc.
Trim
Crop an image by trimming the surrounding transparent pixels or background pixels of the color you specify.
Snow Leopard Support
Enjoy Pixelmator as it runs smoothly on the world s most advanced operating system - Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Italian Language
In addition to English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish you can now also enjoy the Italian language.
Brushes Collections
Easily import, switch, and manage
both your brushes collections and
your brushes.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
For more information about new features, improvements, and corrected bugs, view the complete release notes.
New in version Pixelmator 1.5.1:
New Features
• Brushes collections
Improvements
• Once launched, the app will ask whether to move itself directly to the Applications folder (thanks for inspiration on this to Potion Factory s The Hit List and Delicious Library from Delicious Monster).
• Old Automator Resize Images action is replaced by new Fit Images and Crop Images actions.
• Untitled document numeration is now according to Apple HIG.
• You can now drag the Welcome screen by clicking anywhere on it.
• It is now possible to Quit, Hide, or to use the Show All command when the Welcome screen is launched.
• You can change the background color of the work area by right-clicking on an area outside the canvas and choosing white, grey, or black.
• Dock menu now includes New from Clipboard command.
• All the app s localizations have been updated.
• A newly created document does not show that it is unsaved on window close button (according to Apple Human Interface Guidelines).
• Disabled checkboxes have been added to UI.
• A beep has been removed when you are choosing a color from Apple Color Picker Developer palette.
• Automator actions are now compatible with Snow Leopard.
• Pixelmator now works properly as an external editor for iPhoto.
• Clipboard content is now pasted into the center of the viewable canvas area.
• Guide tooltips are now count-based on the ruler s zero origin.
• Minor Undo improvements (especially for when you are painting) have been made.
• When opening larger size images than the screen image will accommodate fit in window.
• PXM file format now preserves EXIF, IPTC, and other original metadata.
• Some unnecessary console logs have been removed.
• Layer linking is now preserved when exporting to PSD.
• Minor user interface improvements have been added.
• Help documentation has been updated.
Corrected Bugs
• A bug that sometimes caused ruler measurements to show incorrectly
• A bug that caused borderless printing not to work correctly
• A bug that caused rulers to flicker when you are drawing with the tablet
• A bug that caused some anomalies in the canvas area when the app is launched with the Clone Stamp tool selected
• A bug that caused issues when in full-screen mode, but with two images open
• A bug that caused commas and dots not allowed for Image Size width, height, and resolution fields
• A bug that sometimes caused incorrect percentages to show in Image Size sheet
• A bug that caused the Brushes contextual menu to use an inappropriate amount of CPU power
• A bug that sometimes caused an inability to drag and drop photos from Photo Browser
• Clone Stamp s Sample All Layers feature now works properly
• A crash that occurred when you were using Developer color palette in Apple Color Picker within the Fill command
• A possible crash that could happen when closing documents
System Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later
• Core Image supported graphics card (recommended)
• Some features require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and/or iLife.
Pixelmator 1.5.1 is available for $59 (USD). Pixelmator 1.5 is a free update for current Pixelmator users. System requirements, as well as a 30-day Pixelmator trial and more information on Pixelmator, visit them online.
Pixelmator 1.5.1:
http://www.pixelmator.com/
Download Pixelmator:
http://www.pixelmator.com/download/
Purchase Pixelmator:
http://www.pixelmator.com/buy/
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