Pixelmator Pro
Pixelmator Pro is a Mac image editor for photo editing, graphic design, digital painting, and illustration in one desktop app.
What is Pixelmator Pro?
Pixelmator Pro is a native Mac image editing app for photo editing, graphic design, digital painting, and illustration. It helps users retouch photos, create layered designs, draw artwork, and prepare graphics for web or print from a single workspace. The app supports nondestructive editing, a wide range of effects and color adjustments, and compatibility with Adobe Photoshop files for common design workflows. It also integrates with Apple technologies such as Photos extensions, iCloud Drive, Shortcuts, and AppleScript, which can make it easier to fit into Mac-based creative work. Pixelmator Pro is built for people who want a full-featured visual editing tool on macOS, from hobbyists improving images to professionals creating polished graphics.
Key features
- Edit photos with nondestructive adjustments and effects
- Create layered graphics, posters, mockups, and other visual designs
- Paint and illustrate with drawing and image editing tools in one app
- Remove backgrounds and make quick selections with built-in machine learning tools
- Open and work with Adobe Photoshop PSD files
- Edit images directly from the Photos app using the extension
- Export artwork for web and other common delivery formats
- Automate repetitive tasks with Shortcuts and AppleScript
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Pixelmator Pro is a well-known Mac creative app used for editing images and design files. Access to photos, files, or the Photos extension is consistent with its purpose, since the app needs those permissions to open, save, and edit your images. As with any editor that can reach your picture library or cloud files, review which folders and photo collections you allow if you handle sensitive content.
Recommendation: Keep Pixelmator Pro if you use it for photo editing, design, painting, or illustration on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing the app mainly affects your ability to open or continue editing Pixelmator Pro projects and related workflows such as Photos extension editing.
Common paths
/Applications/Pixelmator Pro.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x
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