![]() The same styles are accessible through the layers bar, and an arrange menu lets you scoot items up or down in your layer stack, or lock them so they can’t be moved. If text is active, you’ll see a nice array of formatting settings: font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, horizontal and vertical alignment, and line spacing. You can tap the Tools menu (hint: it looks like a paintbrush) at upper right for even more options. Here you can see the layers that comprise this composition, as well as the powerful Style menu. Tapping the left side of your screen again toggles the layers bar off so you can edit in full-screen glory. Tapping the latter summons a menu with opacity control, a set of 26 blending modes (for changing the way color blends across layers), and customizable fill, stroke, shadow, and reflection options. Tap the layer again (or double tap it) to reveal a menu that lets you cut, copy, delete, hide, duplicate, or change its style. Tap a layer to activate it and then drag your finger up or down to rearrange it in the layer stack. For more customization, tap the left edge of your to screen reveal the layers your image contains. Tap and hold any item to reveal a menu with options to cut, copy, delete, or duplicate. As you can see, handy guides appear when you’re dragging an item to help with alignment. This entire composition was created in Pixelmator for iPad. You can drag an item to reposition it within your composition-handy guides appear to help you align items with ease-and use the blue circular handles that appear to resize it proportionally (pixel dimensions appear next to your finger as you drag). Tap a photo or other element and Pixelmator automatically activates its corresponding layer. The level to which you can customize these elements is amazing. You can also add text in a variety of fonts, as well as nine different shapes including a rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, triangle, diamond, polygon, star, heart, and a line. Tapping the “plus” icon reveals a list of all the things you can add to your image: photos from your iPad’s Photos app, iCloud photo stream, iSight or FaceTime cameras, an empty layer, the contents of your clipboard (something you copied into your iPad’s memory), eight solid color backgrounds, six gradient backgrounds, or six patterns. Your standard iOS pinch-to-zoom and gestures let you zoom into or out of the image as needed. Once you pick a starting image (document), you’re treated to a wonderfully Spartan editing interface: tools and commands are nestled inside four menus at upper right, with handy Undo and Images buttons at upper left.
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