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Introducing Pixelmator for iPhone — A World Class Image Editor for iOS

The Pixelmator Team will be releasing Pixelmator for iPhone this Thursday – 28 May 2015— 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. 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.

Pixelmator is perfect for mobile painters, too. 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. Now you can paint absolutely seamlessly whenever your imagination strikes.

Pixelmator for iPhone is one of the best-in-class app for mobile graphic designers. It is one of the most powerful layer-based graphic design apps for iOS, that lets you combine words, shapes, and images to create stunning compositions right on your iPhone. You can use pixel-accurate selection tools to select and edit areas of an image. Follow the smart alignment guides to perfect image composition. Merge and organize image layers, apply Layer Styles, and Blending modes. And so much more.

Pixelmator takes full advantage of powerful iOS features and technologies. It also delivers a native iOS 8 user experience, making the most advanced editing tools intuitive and easy to use. In addition to features such as iCloud Drive, Handoff, Document Picker, and the Photos app editing extension, Pixelmator for iPhone is engineered to leverage the full power of 64-bit architecture, Grand Central Dispatch, NEON, OpenGL ES, Core Image, and Metal, delivering state-of-the-art performance and incredible responsiveness.

Pricing & Availability

Pixelmator for iPhone will be available tomorrow (Thursday 29 May 2015) from the App Store for $4.99/£3.99 at http://appstore.com/pixelmator

Pixelmator for iPhone is a universal app. All Pixelmator for iPad owners will get Pixelmator for iPhone.

An Overview video is available here.

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]