Pixelmator Pro features over 400 beautiful, designer-created templates for social media, web, print, and more. You can use the templates to quickly create professional-looking designs even if you have no design experience. Thanks to the easy-to-use on-canvas controls, you can replace the placeholder elements — images, videos, logos, or text — with your own visuals or text with just a few simple clicks. You can also use built-in alternative elements — shapes, layer masks, illustrations, and more — to easily customize your designs.
To create an image from a template, do one of the following:
In the template browser, select a template design you like. You can search for templates by name or type in keywords to show all related templates. To see a larger preview of a template, press
on your keyboard.(Optional) Some templates have alternative document sizes or layouts to choose from. In the sidebar on the right, you can click the Size pop-up menu and choose a template size.
Click Create to create a document.
You can replace the placeholder images in templates with your own images. All the effects or color adjustments applied to the placeholder image will be applied to your image, too.
To replace a placeholder image, do any of the following:
The new images will be inserted with the help of Smart Replace — a machine learning-powered feature that combines the power of three other ML features: Remove Background, Super Resolution, and Auto Fill.
Note: If you're replacing images with multilayered documents and would like to move the entire group, make sure automatic group selection is enabled. To do that, choose the Arrange tool , at the bottom of the Tool Options pane select the Auto Select option and choose Group from the adjacent pop-up menu.
When replacing placeholders with images from Files, you can additionally choose a preferred fill option — Original Size, Auto Fill, Scale to Fill, Scale to Fit, or Stretch.
You can replace any written text in templates with your own text. All the formatting applied to the placeholder text will be applied to your text, too.
To replace a placeholder text, double-click the text layer you want to edit, click and drag over the text you want to replace and start typing. If you can't select the text, make sure the Auto Select feature is enabled. Choose the Arrange tool and select Auto Select at the bottom of the Tool Options pane
When replacing text in templates, the Shrink text to fit option is enabled by default. This means text size will be automatically reduced as you type if it no longer fits inside a text box or path.
If you'd like to turn off Shrink text to fit:
Individual templates in Pixelmator Pro include a wide range of unique shapes, illustrations, effects, and other alternative elements. You can switch between these elements to easily change the look of a design. For instance, in the Design Fair templates collection, you'll find 11 different illustrations — bell, cloud, nut, toy, pumpkin, ribbon, cactus, shell, berry, and egg — each giving a different theme to a design.
To change an alternative element, do any of the following:
To give templates a unique look and feel, you can choose from a set of ready-made Document Colors palettes.
In Pixelmator Pro, you can define custom placeholder images, text, and alternative elements, so you can create your own templates from scratch.
To define an image or shape as a placeholder:
To define a group of images, shapes, or text as alternative elements:
In the Placeholder Options menu, you can choose how the element you replace will be inserted. You can choose to automatically remove the background, or scale the visual in a number of different ways.
After you're finished designing a template, you can save it or export it.
Important: When exporting templates, pay attention to the export method you choose. Quick Export is best for producing images optimized for the web. Designs exported this way will be more lightweight and load quicker on the web but may also lose some level of detail. To export high-quality designs, use the regular Export option in the File menu instead.