Motion doesn’t have this variety of shapes but they are a basic vector feature, so to make the experience truly great, we had to find a way to work around this.

The term “complex shapes” here means shapes with other shapes subtracted from them. This one’s the most obvious thing to have and it was priority number one – it’s how this whole journey began. We’ve got support for: Motion text and shapes We’ve also gone pretty deep with how much of the Motion format we support. The last-used export location will now be remembered app-wide rather than for each document. The Export dialog now features an option to export images at custom sizes and scale factors. The Remove Background, Select Subject, Smart Refine, and Decontaminate Colors features are now scriptable with AppleScript. The Pixelmator Pro actions in the Shortcuts app have been updated to be able to remove backgrounds and create subject masks from any image (not just portrait images). When removing backgrounds, colors are decontaminated automatically, but you'll also find this feature in Format > Image. Use the Decontaminate Colors feature to remove any traces of the previous background from the edges of objects. In addition to the Select and Mask tool for refining and creating selections, we've added a Refine Mask tool for refining and creating masks.įind this tool in Format > Mask > Refine Mask or by Control-clicking masked layers in the Layers sidebar. Once you've refined your selection, choose to ouput it to a selection, a mask, a new layer, or a new layer with a mask. To see your selection in more detail, you can try different selection overlays, like On Red, On White, or Black and White. When using the Select and Mask tool, you'll also find a Refine Edge Brush that intelligently makes accurate selections of edge areas. In the Select and Mask tool, you'll find a redesigned Smart Refine feature that turns rough selections into accurate ones automatically. Thanks to the new Select and Mask tool, you can now make advanced selections of challenging image areas – like hair or fur – with ease. Note that this feature works especially well on macOS 12 and devices powered by the M1 chip. The new Select Subject feature lets you automatically select the subject of any image – also with just a click. Use the new Remove Background feature to automatically remove the background from any image with just a click.įind this new feature in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar, the Edit menu, by pressing the Shift-Backspace keyboard shortcut, by pressing and holding the Command key when dragging and dropping images into Pixelmator Pro documents, as a Quick Action in the Finder, and when Control-clicking image layers in the Layers sidebar.

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