Edit Keynote, Numbers and Pages Images in Pixelmator Pro
About this QuickTip
Editing images inside Keynote, Numbers and Pages used to be limited, but now you can send any photo straight to Pixelmator Pro on your iPad and get pro-level results without ever leaving your document. In this guide I'll show you how: select the image, tap the format paintbrush, open Image Options, and tap Edit in Pixelmator Pro. From there you can remove unwanted objects with the Cleanup tool, add colour filters, and use all of Pixelmator's powerful editing tools, then save it straight back to your document with one tap. It's a brilliant upgrade for anyone who makes presentations or documents on iPad. Just note it requires an Apple Creator Studio subscription and Pixelmator Pro. If this helped, hit subscribe for more Apple tips.
Transcript
Some of my favourite apps on iPad, Keynote, Numbers and Pages, have had a big update which really helps with image editing, because we can now edit any photograph or image in those apps directly in Pixelmator Pro on the iPad.
All you're going to do is select the photo you want to edit, and then press the format paintbrush tool at the top. This works the same across Keynote, Numbers and Pages, but I'll show you it working in Keynote for now. Then on that format brush, you're going to go onto Image Options, and there's the option to Edit in Pixelmator Pro.
When you do that, the app will open straight away for you, and that image will appear in Pixelmator. And then you can use all of those powerful image editing tools straight away on the iPad. I'll use the Cleanup tool here to get rid of Pudding's AirTag on his collar. And perhaps we'll add a colour filter as well to make it look a bit different.
Then we can simply tap Save to Keynote, or Save to Numbers, or Save to Pages, and that image will go straight back to the app you started with, with those edits applied. Then you can carry on working on that document, but now you've got the image exactly the way you want it.
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Technical details: This QuickTip was recorded on an 11″ iPad Pro (M4) running iPadOS 26.5 in July 2026.
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