My favorite image editing app for the Mac has been updated. The Pixelmator team announced the release of Pixelmator 1.5 codenamed Spider Tuesday. New features include Save for Web, a Slice tool, a Trim tool, Info Labels, and more. Pixelmator 1.5 now also supports Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
The new Web tools in Pixelmator allow users to prepare and export images for the Web with minimal effort. Images can be optimized and saved in Web-standard JPEG, PNG, or GIF file formats with different quality settings.
The new powerful Slice tool in Pixelmator can be used to slice an image into pieces, allowing each piece of an image to be optimized and saved using its own optimization settings. The file size and preview of optimized slices or images are available in nearly real-time in the Pixelmator window.
The new Info Labels feature unobtrusively shows useful information depending on the tool in use such as selection, crop and slice sizes, tolerance levels for Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, and Magic Eraser, gradient angle and radius, transform dimensions, and more.
The new Trim feature allows quick and easy cropping of an image by trimming surrounding transparent pixels or background pixels in a specified color.
A 30-day demo is available for download if you want to give Pixelmator a spin. A license costs $59.
[via MacDailyNews]
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