![]() This entire composition was created in Pixelmator for iPad. You can drag an item to reposition it within your composition-handy guides appear to help you align items with ease-and use the blue circular handles that appear to resize it proportionally (pixel dimensions appear next to your finger as you drag). ![]() Tap a photo or other element and Pixelmator automatically activates its corresponding layer. The level to which you can customize these elements is amazing. You can also add text in a variety of fonts, as well as nine different shapes including a rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, triangle, diamond, polygon, star, heart, and a line. ![]() Tapping the “plus” icon reveals a list of all the things you can add to your image: photos from your iPad’s Photos app, iCloud photo stream, iSight or FaceTime cameras, an empty layer, the contents of your clipboard (something you copied into your iPad’s memory), eight solid color backgrounds, six gradient backgrounds, or six patterns. Your standard iOS pinch-to-zoom and gestures let you zoom into or out of the image as needed. Once you pick a starting image (document), you’re treated to a wonderfully Spartan editing interface: tools and commands are nestled inside four menus at upper right, with handy Undo and Images buttons at upper left. This makes for an extremely forgiving editing environment that gives you truly creative compositing and photo painting or tracing opportunities. The whole program is layer-based (think stackable transparencies) so you can resize, reposition, retouch, paint or add an effect to something on one layer without affecting the content of other layers. Oddly, Pixelmator for iPad refers to starting with a blank canvas or a template as an image instead of a document, so the terminology can get a little confusing when you’re looking for a way to resize your document as opposed to a photo you’ve imported into it. To date, Pixelmator’s templates include six different collages, seven frame effects, seven card designs, six posters, and 12 popular photo treatments ranging from super-slick lighting effects to various vintage looks, and none of them are cheesy. To get started with Pixelmator for iPad, open a photo, a blank canvas (up to 4096-by-4096 pixels in size), or one of 38 photo-based templates, into which you can import your own photos and other artistic elements.
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