I expect this application to get even better over time. ConclusionĪt less than 5$, Pixelmator Photo is a no brainer and you’ll do yourself a favor by having a capable photo editor on your iPad. Again, this could come in a future release. Second, as I’m not a big user of presets, I wish I could get rid of the presets bar at the bottom to make more room. This will probably come in a future release but meanwhile, you are out of luck. First, there is no multitasking support yet so you cannot drag and drop a photo from Files to Pixelmator Photo for example. Export options of Pixelmator Photo Some missing pieces The following formats are supported: HEIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF. You can export your edited photo to Apple’s Photos library or to other apps in different formats. Editing a photo in Pixelmator Photo Exporting options My tests aren’t exhaustive in this area but the results are pretty good. White balance and color balance also can use machine learning. Hue, saturation and even photo cropping can use machine learning on the flip of a button. The user can choose from automated overall adjustments to more specific ones. Pixelmator Photo has a lot of machine learning enabled features.
PIXELMATOR PHOTO FOR IPHONE PRO
If you already know and use Pixelmator Pro on macOS, you’ll find the same presets available in Pixelmator Photo too. The presets bar at the bottom makes it easy to access and experiment with different ones. They allow for easy processing of an image following a predetermined set of ajustements. Presets are a major feature of Pixelmator. Tagged RAW photos while importing Presets I didn’t have any issue importing photos from my Nikon D750. An edited RAW image can use around 60 megs of space for a 25 megapixel image. Pixelmator Photo uses iOS builtin files management. Photo editing is non destructive so don’t worry because you can always go back.
If importing from Apple’s Photos.app, RAW photos are clearly tagged which Apple’s Photos doesn’t even do. The workflow starts by importing a photo from the Apple photo library or from any sources supported by iOS file management services. Upon opening the application for the first time, you are welcomed with a simple screen. Nearly all image manipulation and corrections features are available. It doesn’t try to be something else with a big visual personality. Pixelmator has a clean user interface with many features coming from Pixelmator Pro on the Mac. That’s what makes it so powerful for photo editing in particular. Pixelmator Photo also has a completely nondestructive workflow so if you apply certain adjustments, repair some parts of an image, crop it, etc., you can always go back and undo or adjust each change. Pixelmator Photo is a photo editor for single layer images (kinda like Lightroom). One of the company employee on their blog puts it this way: (…) if you’re familiar with other apps in this sphere, the simplest and most obvious comparison is this: Pixelmator is a layer-based editor (kinda like Photoshop). It supports JPEG and RAW but the application shines at editing the latter. This application is all about photo editing and correction. Now, it is time to explore Pixelmator Photo for iPad. Both of these apps are actually a different spin of Adobe Photoshop. Pixelmator for the iPad came out later and the joy was the same.
This is a rare case of an application using all the latest operating system features framed in a great UI and UX. Why? Because Pixelmator seems an extension of macOS, a natural fit if you will. Pixelmator was and is still one of the best example of a great app citizen in the macOS ecosystem. I thought it could have been made by Apple. From the beginning I noticed the apparent craftsmanship in the application. The first app that I used from Pixelmator a few years ago was simply called the very same name and it was for macOS. Pixelmator Photo welcome screen My love affair with Pixelmator But first, let me express my love for this company and everything they do. I had a chance to try the application for a week. Today is the official release of Pixelmator Photo, a new and capable photo editor at a bargain price for the iPad.
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