Of course, there are many photo apps that give you tons of effects, but Pixelmator has really high-quality selections and you can customize the look further with onscreen controls not found in most other apps. Once you select an effect, the app gives you onscreen controls to adjust the size and intensity of the effect with a neat radial control system. When you touch the Add Effects button, you get a large selection of thumbnails across the bottom you can scroll by swiping, but each type opens up into another group of thumbnails so you can select the style for that type of effect. You also have sliders here for brightness, contrast and saturation. The retouch selection gives you nine different tools so you can lighten or darken specific areas of an image, sharpen the focus, fix red-eyes, desaturate and more, all applied with a swipe of your finger.Īdjusting colors is particularly cool, because it pushes your photo to the left, and brings up several color presets with thumbnails so you can see their effects along with color level sliders for more precise adjustments. Touching the paintbrush gives you a dropdown menu with artistic tools for painting, retouching, or drawing lets you adjust colors and effects gives you selection tools (like the lasso from Photoshop) and you can make formatting adjustments. Once you have an image onscreen or if you decided to start with a blank slate, your main tools are in the upper right. Even if you just want to start with a blank sheet to work with, you have complete control over its dimensions with a keypad where you can enter the width and height. You can also create a project from scratch using this menu, with a number of templates that include several collage types, poster layouts, or even greeting cards.
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You start by touching the plus sign in the upper left to either take a picture or import one from your photo library or iCloud Drive. With Pixelmator on the iPad your project is front and center, but by using a handful of buttons at the top and onscreen tools, you can get to the app's many features without much screen clutter. Pixelmator Pro's tailored feature set - with its emphasis on major photo-editing features and painting, typographic and graphical smarts - still needs to work through some kinks, but this version shines in its own creative realm, with promises of more improvements to come.Many photo editors for iOS come packed with features, but the screen often gets crowded with buttons, sliders and toolbars that get confusing. Still, Photoshop Elements remains our favorite photo editor for under $100 it's compatible with both Macs and PCs and is good for both novices and advanced photographers.
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Pixelmator Pro is a deep, rich application with tons of polished features that are sure to boost its competitiveness as an advanced image editor. The zoom feature was a bit inflexible, in that you could choose only preset zoom levels instead of punching in your own. For custom sizes, it's easy to select the default document and enter the proper dimensions. However, in order to set a custom-size document, you need to adjust a specific canvas dimension, instead of just creating an original-size canvas at the outset. and International paper, Photo, Web Social, Film & Video, and Iconography. Pixelmator offers an abundance of options and sizes for standardized canvases: U.S. You can specify a variety of dimensions for original work, but you must first choose a standard size. Some images were harder to fix than others, and sometimes they contained unsightly artifacts, but overall, I was impressed with the accuracy and completeness of the Repair tool. Removing items from images often seems genuinely miraculous, with the program effectively seeing behind removed objects, leaving an artifact-free scene. Machine learning in Pixelmator Pro drives context-sensitive removal of objects from images, with precise selections that make it seem that the system perceives and understands foreground and background. Adobe has gone full-on AI with its Sensei technology, and Pixelmator Pro uses Apple's Core ML framework to integrate machine learning into the app. You can't pick up an image editor these days without hearing about artificial intelligence. That said, the tools within each module are nicely laid out, with no distracting ornamentation. Moving the cursor at the edge of the window is the best way to keep the tool text legible. Pixelmator's design is clean but animated, so as you navigate around the tool palette, the sleek-looking defining text appears and disappears as you move your mouse. Pixelmator integrates directly with Apple Photos, but you cannot resize the previews or Quick View images before opening them.
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