Pavel Jelic Among the most common tasks that users perform on their Macs and MacBooks is various forms of photo editing. In this case, users have several programs from different companies to choose from. Adobe's Photoshop has been on the imaginary throne for several years now. However, Serif's Affinity Photo application, which many original users have already switched to, is slowly starting to breathe on its back, mainly thanks to the one-time price. However, there is also, for example, the graphic editor Pixelmator Pro, which many people refer to as the future of photo editing. Let's take a quick look at it together in this article.
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Pixelmator Pro is a graphics program designed for photo editing. You might be particularly interested in the fact that the graphical interface of this program is perfectly aligned with the macOS operating system itself. All controls, buttons and other parts of the program are created only and only for macOS users, which many of them will surely appreciate. However, in addition to the simple operation, what is also important is what Pixelmator Pro can do. Among the basic functions of practically every photo editing application is the ability to edit RAW photos. Of course, this feature cannot be missing in Pixelmator Pro. When editing the photos itself, all the options you might need are then available - for example, the option to adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, color balance, grain, shadows and many other "sliders" that you need to edit photos.
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However, it should be noted that Pixelmator Pro is not intended for final photo editing. In a way, it can be said that it is both a photo editor and a photo editing application - in short and simply like Photoshop and Lightroom in one. In Pixelmator Pro, you can perform various forms of retouching, removing distracting elements, or, for example, correcting certain parts of a photo. After these adjustments, you can start editing the photo already mentioned, during which you can use several different filters, effects and options for changing the exposure. In addition to advanced tools, there are also simple ones, such as cropping, reducing, moving and combining multiple photos. Also very interesting is the option to use special artificial intelligence that can edit and improve your photo with a single click.
Even users who like to draw will enjoy Pixelmator Pro. Pixelmator Pro offers a range of all-purpose brushes, thanks to which you can transform your art into digital form. And last but not least, users of vector editors will also benefit, as Pixelmator offers both the possibility of inserting ready-made vectors into photos and the possibility of creating your own vectors using the pen tool. In addition to automatic photo editing, artificial intelligence can also be used for easier retouching and removal of objects, and the most interesting option then includes the automatic "counting up" of pixels in the event that you try to zoom in on a photo that loses its quality in this way. In addition to counting pixels, artificial intelligence can also be used to remove noise and "overburnt" colors. The fact that Pixelmator Pro is an absolutely great and versatile application is mainly spoken by the reviews of all users. In the App Store on Mac, Pixelmator Pro earned 4,8 out of 5 stars, a perfect score.
Adobe Lightroom is a photo manager with editing options, Adobe Photoshop is intended for more advanced editing. Affinity currently has Affinity Photo, which can be taken as a competitor to Photoshop, then Affinity Designer as a counterpart to Adobe Illustrator - that is, mainly work with vectors. Comparing Adobe Lightroom with Affinity Designer is, in my opinion, complete nonsense.
Thanks for the warning, I obviously got it wrong in the beginning. The article has been edited.
I don't think Pixelmator Pro can edit RAW photos.
So try it out. It works perfectly for me. And combined with Photos and Pixelmátor Pro, it's absolutely great.