Pixelmator for the iPad has now been released. The app attempts to carry over many of the features of its desktop counterpart, including numerous brushes, effects, and adjustment options. Users can for instance control levels, curves, white balance, and hue and saturation. Individual sections of an image can be lightened, darkened, blurred, and repaired, or even distorted and transformed.
Images can be created from scratch or bundled templates, and are layer-based, weaving in options like shadows, outlines, color, and gradient fills. The app opens and saves Adobe Photoshop files in addition to JPEG, PNG, PDF, and other formats, and supports publishing via email, Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook. All files can be synced via iCloud and/or opened by other apps on computers and iOS devices with iCloud Drive.
The app is primarily designed for 64-bit iPads — namely those based on Apple’s A7, A8, and A8X chipsets — but has no specific hardware requirements beyond iOS 8 compatibility. It costs $5.
