Get Your Photos Ready to Print

Before printing your digital photos, you want them to be as sharp and vivid as possible. Pixelmator Pro makes this process a snap. Just follow these steps.

Because the sizes of standard prints, such as 3x5 and 4x6, don’t match the aspect ratio of most digital photos, printing services often crop your images—sometimes inelegantly.

Avoid this calamity by cropping images yourself using Pixelmator Pro’s presets:

1. Click the Crop button.
2. Click the Constrain pop-up menu (it may say Custom Size) and choose the aspect ratio of your print.
3. Adjust the crop tool as needed; if the image is crooked, use the Rotate setting to straighten it.
4. Click Apply.

When you crop too far into an image or enlarge too much, you can end up with a grainy print that lacks detail.

Pixelmator Pro’s Super Resolution feature (choose Image > Super Resolution) intelligently corrects those low-resolution artifacts using machine learning.

With Super Resolution, you can scale an image up to three times its original size and still get a sharp, clear print.

If your photo also has noise—graininess caused by too little light or too much image compression—try applying Pixelmator Pro’s Denoise feature (Format > Denoise), which can remove those artifacts while preserving details and sharpness.

If your image also has banding—color “steps” instead of smooth gradients, most common in photos with large areas of one color—the Deband feature (Format > Deband) can reduce the effect. Pro tip: You can get even bigger improvements with some images by applying Deband more than once.

Upload the resulting shot to your photo service to get exactly what you submit.

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