![]() Working with layers can be tricky on the desktop, but with Pixelmator on the iPad it's easy. In other words, Pixelmator seems simple on the surface, but you really see how it stands apart with its flexibility and feature options when you dig a little deeper. 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. I've used a lot of photo editors as well as paint apps on iOS, but I've never seen an app with this many tool options. There are even 12 eraser types so you can fade and obscure parts of your project with just the right look. To give you an idea of your options here, there are 12 different styles for each type of tool. Touching the Paint and Erase option gives you tons of different artistic tools so you can draw with pencils, pens, crayons, markers, paintbrushes and more, with several styles for each type. 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. 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. Many photo editors for iOS come packed with features, but the screen often gets crowded with buttons, sliders and toolbars that get confusing. Peakto also utilizes a Pixelmator Pro Shortcut to create a Pixelmator Pro document from any image, even RAW image files, and edit it in Pixelmator Pro.On the Mac desktop, Pixelmator closely resembled the Photoshop experience with separated tool palettes, a layer manager, and other windows you could move for flexibility in your personal workflow. Peakto uses Pixelmator Pro’s file shortcuts to open previews of Pixelmator Pro (PXD) files in full resolution without duplicating the document or even opening Pixelmator Pro. Cyme has utilized Shortcuts to provide integration between Peakto and Pixelmator Pro. ![]() As its name suggests, a Shortcut provides users with a quick way to get things done with apps with a single click or by asking Siri. MacOS Shortcuts offer developers powerful automation. “That’s why, in bringing together the Pixelmator and Cyme teams, we’ve combined our expertise as editors specialized in the Mac to create companion software that offers everyone professional tools for managing and creating images.” “Communication is happening more and more through images, in our personal and professional lives,” says Claudia Zimmer, Cyme co-founder. When the best shots are located, users can create albums and export full-resolution images. ![]() Peakto not only gathers a photographer’s images in one place but also helps photographers organize their photos and quickly find their best shots. Peakto’s sophisticated AI classifies images based on their content, such as portrait, nature, food, wildlife, and more, and assigns them aesthetic scores. Peakto offers powerful search tools, cross-app annotation, AI-powered categorization, and keywording functionality. ![]()
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