![]() There’s not much missing, for my purposes, that I can’t do well with other apps. If I think of something else I’ll try to add it here. These are the things that come to mind right now. Another example is the histogram: it’s contained in a styled box with rounded corners, which covers the extreme ends of the histogram and prevents me from seeing when I’ve adjusted things juuuuuuuuust enough to make the histogram stretch to cover the dynamic range fully and start clipping. Being able to type values into sliders with the keyboard, for example. I’d like a little more precise control over some of the tools. It saves the resulting dehazed file back into Photos. I often finalize a photo except for Dehaze, and then switch to Mac for those photos and edit the photo further by selecting Affinity Dehaze, which is a Photos plugin that Affinity Photo installs on Mac. I can often get by with Pixelmator + Apple, by doing most of the editing in Pixelmator, and then using Apple Photos’ editing tools (Clarity=Brilliance, Structure=Definition). A few tools that I genuinely need a lot, which are in other apps: Dehaze, Clarity, and Structure. Pixelmator’s denoising isn’t nearly as effective as other denoise apps I use, from my experience, so I rarely/never use it.ģ. But sometimes I shoot with the camera configured to save both, and I then realize the JPG isn’t good enough and want to use the RAW, and I’d like Pixelmator to let me choose the version I want to edit from.Ģ. If I’ve already extensively pre-processed in something like DxO PureRaw and turned a RAW into a RAW+JPG pair, I want to use the JPG from then on. As far as I can tell, Pixelmator Photo currently uses the RAW if there’s a pair. ![]() Let me select RAW/JPG when there’s a pair. ![]() Here are some suggestions for Pixelmator Photo that would make me able to rely more on it and less on other apps that I sometimes currently use.ġ. I also have used RAW Power, which does have a lot of raw power, but very little UI polish. The latter includes Photoshop, Affinity Photo, and the Topaz AI suite in particular. Other times I just import and then rely on either a) apps that integrate natively with Apple Photos, or b) apps that can be invoked as external editors from Apple Photos on the Mac. Sometimes, like a recent macro spider shoot in the early morning hours in the dark, I’m shooting RAW and using DxO PureRaw to denoise and sharpen on the Mac desktop before I ever import. I use a lot of different software to get the most out of my images. By the way, I heard that you’re bringing it to Mac, and that makes me very happy. Sometimes I’m importing 10,000 files from a card captured in burst mode and using Photo Mechanic to cull, other times I’m on a family trip and I’m just pulling the card out of my pocket camera and importing them into Photos on an iThing.Īll that said, I really appreciate the balance of simplicity and power in Pixelmator Photo. And all of this goes into Apple Photos, which I have found to be reliable, well-integrated, secure, and “just works” across iPad, iPhone, and Mac. I have flagship pro-quality cameras and lenses, and I shoot everything from astrophotography, family, pets, landscape, portraits, events, and a lot of wildlife including very demanding birding, insect, and macro photography - for pleasure and for research. But I am also significantly more advanced than, say, someone who wants to one-click filter a selfie and post it to Instagram. I’m not a pro, shooting weddings or something like that. I would describe myself as a very advanced photography enthusiast. Other times I just grab a lifestyle camera and capture vacation memories. I often have no choice about this: I’m shooting action photos of birds taking flight in near-dark, for example, at long distance. Sometimes I have images shot in very adverse conditions, like nearly-black RAW files that I need to do extensive processing, sharpening, and noise reduction to get good images from. It’s so seamless that, at times, I forget whether I’m in the native Apple Photos app or in Pixelmator. I think it’s brilliant that Pixelmator Photo is able to edit my photos nondestructively, supports RAW, and acts as a peripheral value-add to my existing photo library instead of trying to get me to migrate all my photos into some other service whose reliability, privacy, integration into apps like mail and messages, etc are not already things I am comfortable with. I like to use Apple Photos as my photo library, which eliminates most other photo editing apps. Hi! Pixelmator Photo is the best app I have found, to this point, that matches my workflow and preferences.
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