#CHANGE TOOLS PALETTE PIXELMATOR PRO HOW TO#
In this tutorial, you've become more familiar with the Pixelmator Workspace and have learned how to adjust some of Pixelamtor's Preferences. Choose either Hide Guides or Clear Guides to remove the visible guides. Close the Pixelmator preferences and Control + click on one of the ruler bars. Move all objects in place so you'll end up with an image like the one shown below. This will not have any effect on the existing guides but if we move one of our objects around with the Move tool, you'll see that the auto-alignment guides we just talked about will appear in the new color. Step 3Ĭhange the color of the Alignment Guides by clicking on the color button. This will make sure that guides will pop up whenever we move an object relative to the edge or the center of another object. Make sure Show Guides at object center and Show guides at object edges are activated. In the Rulers section we find all the preferences that have to do with measuring and aligning objects. Open the Pixelmator Preferences ( Pixelmator > Preferences…) and choose the Rulers section. It is also possible to change the preferences for the guides and the ruler bars. Use the Move Tool again to move the text "Back To School" in such away that it is centered on the newly placed guide. Note that also guides snap to other objects when positioning them so you might need to hold the Command-key to position the guide on the 75% mark. Place the guide that appears on the 75% mark of the top ruler bar. Then Control + click on one of the ruler bars and choose percent as the measuring unit from the menu that appears.Īdd a new vertical guide by clicking on the left ruler bar and dragging towards the centre of the document window. Try to move the other objects in place as well.Īctivate the ruler bars by pressing Command-R. To temporarily deactivate snapping, you can hold the Command-key while dragging. You'll notice that when you move the Apple close enough to the guides, the Apple will snap in place. Click and move the Apple in place in the document window. Now click on the Apple and notice that the layer with the name Apple gets automatically selected in the layers palette. The Move Tool is activated as shown by the larger icon in the Tools Palette. In the menu that appears you'll have to check if Auto Select is activated as shown in the image below. The Tool Options bar can be found at the top of the document window. Click on the little gear icon on the Tool Options Bar. Select the Move Tool from the Tools Palette. Here you'll find the Brushes Palette, Gradients Palette, the Shapes Palette and the Photo browser.
Pixelmator has more palettes that can be accessed from the View menu. Note, that also image adjustment tools like Brightness and Contrast, and desaturate can only be accessed from the Effects Browser. The Effects Browser lets you choose between all the effects and filters that come with Pixelmator. The Type Tool for example will add a Type Layer to the Layers Palette the moment you click inside the document window. Using some tools will create new layers automatically.
You can add layers by clicking on the + button at the bottom of the palette, and remove layers by clicking on the - button. The Layers Palette shows the layers that the image in the document window consists off. To bring the Tools Palette back to its factory default state, press the Reset… button in the preference window. In order to open a group of tools click on the tool in the Tools Palette and hold the mouse button for a few seconds. You can also drop tools from the preference window on top of other tools in the Tools Palette to group them. Go to the Painting section in the Tools preferences and drag and drop the Pixel Tool onto the Tools Palette. The Tools Palette can now be adjusted by clicking and dragging its borders and corners. ( Pixelmator > Preferences…) and click on the Tools icon. The Tools Palette in Pixelmator can be adjusted by going to the Pixelmator preferences.
Around the document window we see a set of floating palettes similar to that shown in the image below.
The Pixelmator workspace that consist of our newly created image, shown inside the document window in the middle of our desktop. Use the settings as shown in the image and click on OK. The window below appears where we can set the size and resolution for our new document. Step 1Ĭreate a new image by choosing Create new image…. The first time we launch Pixelmator we are presented with the "Welcome to Pixelmator" window, from where we can choose to create a new image, open an existing image or if we have launched Pixelmator before, open an image we've worked on recently.
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