

That’s just something you need to see for yourself. It also allowed us to boost the quality of all Distort tools to the very extremes.

It gives the Extension a direct access to the GPU of your Mac, cutting down compute times and making graphics processing lightning quick. One of them is Metal, which allows the Photos Extension to be as good as it can possibly be. All thanks to a few groundbreaking Apple technologies. Its really fun to use, and the quality and speed are incredible. With the Pixelmator Photos Extension, you can reshape areas of your images to retouch photos, create artistic effects or simply have fun with your photos without having to leave the Photos app. And with Pixelmator 3.4 Twist, just two weeks after the official El Capitan release, we’re adding some amazing, incredibly fast Distort tools to your Photos app. OS X El Capitan has introduced the ability for third-party developers to create Photo Editing extensions.

Together with that, we’re bringing a bunch of other neat enhancements, such as an enhanced Force Touch support, which makes painting with Force Touch trackpad way smoother, San Francisco as the new user interface font, and the cool new Split View feature, which lets you work with Pixelmator and any other app side-by-side, in full screen.Īnd there’s more. And today, after more than four months of work, we’re extremely proud to announce that Pixelmator is ready and works great on OS X El Capitan! We started to work on El Capitan support since its Beta was introduced back in June, during the WWDC. As you can imagine, once the foundation is modified, things might get really messy. And OS X Core Image is the foundation on which Pixelmator is built. With the release of El Capitan, Apple introduced a unified OS X and iOS Core Image technology. This update really did take a great deal of effort on our part and the things we’ve done under the hood with the Photos Extension are seriously awesome. It brings some very exciting updates, including full support for OS X El Capitan, the new Split View feature, and a powerful, Metal-based Photos Extension together with a range of other improvements and fixes. It’s here! Our latest and greatest version of Pixelmator has just hit the shelves of the Mac App Store. OctoOS X El Capitan Support and a New Photos Extension
