After much research, I bought Pixelmator 3.9 Classic for Mac...macOS Catalina 10.15.5. I'm doing an ancestry photo project that requires a lot of spiffing up from scratches, spills, creases, and just plain old photos...like some back to the 1800's. I've watched the hour-long tutorial and other tutorials and, so far, have managed to get by until I tried testing out results on my brother. I scanned the photos years ago and burned them to disk in .jpg format.
I had Photoshop a long time ago, but never upgraded because I didn't need anything more than cropping and lightening. Now I do. I am not familiar with layering.
I first tried text, which added a layer, then converted to .jpg from .pxm. I did that because my sibs mostly have PC's and .jpg is universal. What happened to the photo when my brother opened the attached file was that he got a "batch" of photos, apparently in separate layers. I tried sending the same photo with .pmx, and he couldn't open it.
Am I sequencing this incorrectly somehow? I've tried different things, but can't get the results I need.
Tnx for any help!
Newbie Mental Crash
2020-11-26 17:16:34
Hi Jan.
You say you are not familiar with layers, so I will try to help.
Think of layers as separate sheets of transparency paper.
For example - you may have a bottom layer which has a photo of a beach. You could then add a layer / sheet on top which contains text. You might then add a 3rd layer / sheet on top of that which has a logo on it.
When you have finished editing your image, click on File > Export as jpg and the file should be a single layered image containing all 3 layers.
If your sibling received a file containing different images on different layers, it sounds like you sent him a .pxm file, as opposed to the jpg file?
If you need any more help regarding understanding layers, please do not hesitate to ask.
You say you are not familiar with layers, so I will try to help.
Think of layers as separate sheets of transparency paper.
For example - you may have a bottom layer which has a photo of a beach. You could then add a layer / sheet on top which contains text. You might then add a 3rd layer / sheet on top of that which has a logo on it.
When you have finished editing your image, click on File > Export as jpg and the file should be a single layered image containing all 3 layers.
If your sibling received a file containing different images on different layers, it sounds like you sent him a .pxm file, as opposed to the jpg file?
If you need any more help regarding understanding layers, please do not hesitate to ask.