Update: Pixelmator for iPhone is now available. Pixelmator is releasing an update to its iOS app tomorrow, making the app available on the ($4.99). The universal app means you can buy once and download Pixelmator on both iPad and iPhone. Existing iOS users of the app naturally get the iPhone version for free as an update. The new version also brings the Distort tools, like warp brushes, to the iOS app for the first time. Pixelmator for iPhone works very similarly to the iPad version but scaled down for the smaller canvas.

From last year. Rather than popover panels, selecting an action opens full-width menus encapsulating options.

This is a necessary concession for the size of the display. Even on an iPhone 6, there just isn’t the room to have the same freedom as with an iPad or Mac. Although the Pixelmator team has done a good job of porting the app, I still find it painful to get anything done due to the lack of screen real estate. There are too many taps and too many contextual menus required to get anything done. Although every feature of the iPad app is present here, it’s generally a lot more frustrating to use.

Cropping is fast, but you don’t need Pixelmator to make nice crops and filters. The built-in Photos app already offers good, basic, editing tools for such purposes. In landscape, the experience is a bit better due to the improved aspect ratio. You can drag out a view of the current layers in the image by swiping from the left edge.

In landscape, Pixelmator for iPhone feels very similar to Keynote, but obviously its a layer stack and image preview rather than a slide deck. In landscape, tools windows use the elongated width to reflow controls into a long toolbar which helps with usability.

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However, you still suffer the same modality problems brought about by the lack of screen space. It takes too many taps to do anything and it’s prone to misclicks on toolbar buttons. During my testing, I had to use the Undo feature on several occasions to remedy these inadvertent scribbles. If you are downloading Pixelmator for iPhone as a standalone image-editor, then you should reconsider. Although it is possible to do some more serious editing (such as using the Retouch tool to eliminate small objects from a scene), you’ll get annoyed with the experience. The best way to use Pixelmator for iPhone is as an accessory to the iPad and Mac apps, using iCloud to sync documents and apply final/quick adjustments to projects on-the-go with the phone. It is akin to the utility of Apple’s iWork apps on the iPhone. They serve as nice conveniences to continue working on documents created on the Mac or iPad. The distort tools work as you would expect — and to be clear — appear on both the iPhone and iPad versions.

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The Mac app has had these features for some time. Pick a warp, bump or twirl and then just trace over the image with your finger to apply the effects. Pixelmator uses a Metal rendering stack for optimum performance. You can download. Pixelmator for Mac is also. Pixelmator only needs an Apple Watch app to round out the suite.

Pixelmator for iPhone Introducing Pixelmator for iPhone — A World Class Image Editor for iOS I’ve long been a fan of Pixelmator. Since it’s first release on the Mac, I’ve used it as an alternative to bulkier more expensive photo editing systems like Photoshop. Pixelmator has received rave reviews from many media outlets, including this one, and we couldn’t be happier to announce that the Pixelmator team has released its newest version of the app for the iPhone.

A world class image editor for iOS, Pixelmator for iPhone is packed with powerful, fast, desktop-class tools for enhancing photos, drawing and painting, as well as for advanced image editing with layers, text, shapes, and more. Pixelmator is built exclusively for iOS 8 and takes full advantage of its latest features and technologies, making Pixelmator fast, intuitive, and very simple for anyone to use. “We are super excited to introduce a world class, advanced image editor for iPhone,” said Saulius Dailide, one of the founders of the Pixelmator Team.

“Our team created the first-ever mobile image editor that has all the tools you need whether you are a mobile photographer, mobile painter or a mobile graphic designer.” Pixelmator is the perfect app for mobile photographers and painters. It is packed with advanced, desktop-class photo editing tools that let you touch up and enhance photos right on your iPhone. Pixelmator features powerful Color Adjustment tools, incredibly precise Retouching tools, Metal-based Distort tools, a collection of breathtaking effects, and much more. It features more than 100 outstanding double-texture brushes, innovative color-picking tools, and an impressive, OpenGL ES- and A8X-based Paint Engine. Mobile painters can choose from realistic to fully stylized brushes of all sizes and shapes to subtly enhance images or to create masterpieces from scratch. Pixelmator also provides myriad ways to pick colors easily and with great precision. And it lets you enjoy real-time responsive painting, thanks to the state-of-the-art Paint Engine.

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Quite possibly the best news with this update release is that the iPhone version of the app is available at no additional charge to owners of the iPad version. The iOS universal app is available in the App Store to new users for $4.99, a very affordable price for such a powerful piece of software. Some of the additional features that are included with this update are:. There are now more pre-designed shapes and text styles for you to choose from. We’ve added additional layer templates, too. The new Hue adjustment setting lets you customize the look of Light Leak and Bokeh effects. The enhanced Repair tool interface now lets you cancel repairing while in process, see the percent progress of the repair, and hide the layers palette while still repairing.

You can now zoom into your image more than 1000 percent while painting, if you like. Working with text and shape layers is now much faster. Fonts are now sorted just as they should be — alphabetically. You can now see the color value while adjusting the white balance with the Eyedropper. Now you can share more than one image per session via AirDrop. Previously, a newly added layer would appear at the top of the layers palette. Now, it is placed above the selected layer.

Full Screen mode now hides the bottom bar of the interface. Previously, the popover menus were hidden after rotating the device. We fixed that. We’ve updated to the latest stylus SDKs for a better painting experience.

The app used to quit unexpectedly when it was put to sleep while repairing. We’ve also enhanced the overall performance of the app so you can enjoy a much more seamless image-editing process. This release is very exciting as it marks the release of the only advanced photo editing app available for the iPhone. It is designed to work seamlessly with the other versions of the app and take full advantage of iOS 8 functions like Handoff. I’ve not had a whole lot of time to play with Pixelmator as it was just released this morning, but from what I’ve seen of it so far, its the most impressive image editing app for the iPhone.

The app loads and exports images extremely fast and at one point, I forgot that I was using a fully capable image editing app for iOS. It was almost as if I was using the desktop client. I’ve used other apps for photo editing that just make the experience cumbersome, but Pixelmator has really made the user experience on the iPhone 6 Plus screen enjoyable. For more information, visit.

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