Place images
Place any Pixelmator-supported image in your composition as a new layer. Placing is as simple as drag and drop.
1. Open the Pixelmator document that is the destination for the image.
2. To place the image from the Finder, drag and drop it onto the open destination document window. The placed image appears as a new layer in your composition. You can edit the new layer as you would any other layer in Pixelmator.
**Note:** You can place images from nearly anywhere in your Mac into your compositions, including directly from other applications that support drag and drop, such as iPhoto, Aperture, Finder, and even from other Pixelmator documents.
- Open the Pixelmator document that is the destination for the image.
To place the image from the Finder, drag and drop it onto the open destination document window. The placed image appears as a new layer in your composition. You can edit the new layer as you would any other layer in Pixelmator.
Note: You can place images from nearly anywhere in your Mac into your compositions, including directly from other applications that support drag and drop, such as iPhoto, Aperture, Finder, and even from other Pixelmator documents.
1. Open the Pixelmator image that is the destination for the image layer.
2. Open the image that has the layer you want to place in the destination image.
3. Drag and drop that layer from the Layers palette to the destination image.
- Open the Pixelmator image that is the destination for the image layer.
- Open the image that has the layer you want to place in the destination image.
- Drag and drop that layer from the Layers palette to the destination image.
SEE ALSO
About layers
Open images
Import images from devices
Create a new Pixelmator image
1. Choose View > Show Photo Browser.
2. Select an iPhoto or Aperture album, or your Pictures folder, depending on where your image is located.
3. Locate the image by scrolling through the photo thumbnails in the Photo Browser, or using the search field to find the specific image.
4. Drag the photo thumbnail to the document window.
- Choose View > Show Photo Browser.
- Select an iPhoto or Aperture album, or your Pictures folder, depending on where your image is located.
- Locate the image by scrolling through the photo thumbnails in the Photo Browser, or using the search field to find the specific image.
- Drag the photo thumbnail to the document window.