Pixelmator Pro 4.3 tutorial: AI shapes and app integration

This tutorial uses a video thumbnail to demonstrate Pixelmator Pro 4.3 and its integration with Apple Creator Studio apps. The speaker starts with an image from the content hub, adds text, then generates a vector shape from a prompt to create roots around the lettering. The generated shape inherits the selected text's styling. Its control points remain editable, so the speaker can adjust the branches and shadow.

For an image-to-image variation, the speaker duplicates and merges layers before choosing Replace Layer and Generate from Image. That gives the generation step the combined composition as context. A second prompt simplifies the result. The demo also shows a practical limitation: generated output can differ from the original size or aspect ratio, requiring the speaker to lower its opacity and recenter it.

The speaker says generation uses private cloud compute, consumes tokens, and may request permission to use a Google image generation service. The workflow therefore does not establish offline operation.

The Keynote portion shows a return button and retained editing layers, which the speaker attributes to sidecar files that usually live in iCloud. The final example sends a video frame directly from Final Cut Pro to Pixelmator Pro for thumbnail editing.