Advanced Compression lets you shrink image sizes to the smallest possible without losing quality.

Export images in the modern High Efficiency Image File Format.

See handy live previews when formatting text and adjusting layer blending.

Use Select Color Range to make selections of precise colors or entire color ranges.

Learn all about using Pixelmator Pro with easy to follow video and text tutorials on the new Tutorials page.

The Pixelmator Pro Help menu has been improved and now shows search results from the online user guide.

When moving guides, their position will now be shown in the current ruler units rather than pixels.

Dragging a guide while holding the Shift key will now snap the guide to each ruler tick mark.

You can now Control-click a ruler to change its unit.

Layer style presets will now be outlined when selected.

You can now show or hide each of the buttons in the Pixelmator Pro toolbar.

The Gradient Fill layer style now has an Angle option.

When using the Arrange tool, choosing the Reset preset will now reset the rotation of text, shape, and group layers as well as image layers.

You can now change layer opacity using the number keys when using the Style tool.

When you select a layer in the canvas, the Layers sidebar will scroll to reveal it.

Pressing and holding the Command key will now let you move layers while using the Free Selection tool.

It’s now easier to select other layers when having a layer selected within a layer group.

In addition to Command-D, you can now press the Escape key to deselect a selection.

The Pen tool now draws much more precisely, especially when using a Magic Mouse.

The accuracy of the Quick Selection tool’s live overlay has been improved by 1 to 2 pixels.

The quality of exported PDFs has been improved.

The Photo Browser has been recoded to reduce loading times and prevent issues when Photos libraries would not load.

Start Drawing and Close Path now appear as options when control-clicking a point while editing an open vector path.

The Auto Contrast and Auto Color options of the Curves and Levels tools now work faster.

Fixes

Undoing an image size change would not restore layers to their previous positions. Fixed.

Using the Command key to move a layer while using the Paint tool would cause graphical glitches. Fixed.

When editing individual paths within a shape, the position of any gradient fills will no longer change.

Layer thumbnails would not update when moving a selected image area. Fixed.

When using any shape tool, the add shape cursor would not appear if an existing shape was selected even when it was possible to draw a new shape. Fixed.

The Zoom button in the toolbar would not update after moving a Pixelmator Pro window between Retina and non-Retina displays. Fixed.

Moving a selected image area within a group would move the group instead of the selected area. Fixed.

It was not possible to move, select, or draw new shapes while editing the gradient fill of an existing shape. Fixed.

It was not possible to change a layer’s rotation to below 0 degrees using the arrow buttons in the Arrange tool. Fixed.

Pinching to zoom in or out while the mouse was over a scrollbar would not work. Fixed.

Editing multiple times in a row using the Soften and Sharpen tools with different Strength settings would not work correctly. Fixed.

The Soften tool would not soften enough when zoomed in to over 100%. It does now.

On rare occasions, it would not be possible to edit certain areas of text layers. Fixed.

The Reshape tools would not work on images over 4K with MacBook Pro models from 2016 and later. Fixed.

Using the Paint tool with the Luminosity blending mode would produce random black pixels. Fixed.

Layer masks in PSD files would sometimes be inverted. Fixed.

Sometimes, it wouldn’t be possible to paint at the edges of very large selections (over 4000 pixels). Fixed.

Text presets would be displayed incorrectly with large fonts and negative character spacing. Fixed.

It was not possible to change the color of single text characters using the Type tool color picker. Fixed.

Selecting multiple negatively spaced lines of text would create overlapped areas in the highlighted selection. Fixed.

When filling an empty layer using the Color Fill tool with Sample All Layers turned on, edges would not be smoothed correctly. Fixed.

On rare occasions, ungrouping a layer group and undoing would cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.

Undoing after painting would sometimes not be possible. Fixed.

Refining a selection on a RAW layer would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.

Zooming and undoing at the same time would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.

Fixed an issue with using the Command key shortcut inside the Refine Selection tool that would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly.

Switching to the Paint tool while painting a Gradient Fill would sometimes cause Pixelmator Pro to quit unexpectedly. Fixed.

Added a few more fixes to improve the overall stability of Pixelmator Pro.