Pixelmator 1.6 Coming on July 13 with 64-bit, Watermarking and Facebook Support

The Pixelmator team has announced that they’ll release a major update for their image editing application on July 13. The update will bring full 64-bit support, watermarking options to integrate with Automator and Facebook exporting features to share photos with your friends without leaving the app.

Jim Dalrymple over at The Loop reports:

The main focus [for this release] was quality and performance,” Simonas Bastys, co-founder of Pixelmator, told The Loop. “We want to start the 2.0 era of Pixelmator with the outstanding stability and performance. We’ve been improving that for over 2 years now and it shows.”

With the integrated Pixelmator support, you can create a Watermark application or workflow directly in Automator. I’ve tried this new feature myself and it works really well.

“Our focus is the prosumer customer,” said Bastys. “We see some improvements, not changes with each release. For example, we did the best Save for Web in 1.5 and we saw a lot of people coming even from Adobe Fireworks.

No other image editing developers, except that of Adobe Photoshop (not Photoshop Elements) care so much about the quality and performance,” said Bastys. “We see opportunity here. By leveraging the latest Mac OS X technologies we are able to achieve the best stability and impressive performance.

The update will be free for existing customers. We’ll report back as soon as we’ll be able to test the new version.