Pixelmator Pro update adds AI-powered Deband tool to smooth rough gradients

Just a few weeks after releasing Pixelmator Pro 3.2, a major update to the macOS image editor that added video editing, the Pixelmator team announced Pixelmator Pro 3.2.3 with a 'groundbreaking' new tool, Deband. Deband removes posterization and compression artifacts from images in a single click. Color banding is a common artifact, especially when viewing low-quality image files, that makes color transitions look staggtered and abrupt rather than smooth. Consider the image below, in the before ...