Now, they’re opened as vector shapes and will also be exported as shapes from the app bringing improved compatibility. Previously, PSD shape layers would be opened as image layers in Pixelmator Pro.

One of the most important improvements is support for shapes in PSDs. The company says it took them almost a year to complete this and now the app should run smoother than ever while handling PSDs. And we’ve completely rewritten it to be faster, safer (crash-free!), and much more advanced.” Starting with what’s the PSD engine, Pixelmator explains that this is “what we call the part of the app that handles reading, opening, and writing PSD files – in a nutshell, everything to do with PSDs. In a blog post by Pixelmator, the company explains all the changes made to the app. Pixelmator Pro was just updated to version 2.1.3 and it brings huge improvements to PSD support as the team behind the app has rewritten the entire engine that handles Adobe Photoshop files from the ground up.