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1. #PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR FOR MAC#
2. #PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR INSTALL#
3. #PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR SKIN#
4. #PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR PRO#

Now, let’s explore some editing options that are available now or soon will be. When you’re done editing with that extension, click Save Changes to apply the adjustments. Return to Photos and click the Extensions button, and select the one you’d like to use to edit the photo.Click the Photos category and enable the extensions you want to make available.Įditing extensions in the Extensions preference pane.

That opens the Extensions pane in System Preferences.Ĭlick the Extensions button in the editing view to access editing extensions.

#PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR INSTALL#

When you install (or update) an application that features an editing extension and launch it, the extension is made known to OS X.

#PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR PRO#

I wish this version of Pixelmator Pro had been available when we recorded the episode our discussion would have been quite different.How to install and use editing extensions

#PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR FOR MAC#

The ability to return to your photos and adjust your edits is powerful, and I would expect other photo editing tools to try to emulate this as well.įor more on photo editing apps for Mac – Pixelmator Pro, Luminar, Affinity Photo, RAW Power, Capture One, and others, check out this episode of the PhotoActive podcast, where my co-host Jeff Carlson and I discuss the many options available. If, like me, you appreciate Apple Photos as a way of managing your photo library, and making it available across devices, but still want more powerful photo editing, then Pixelmator Pro used as an extension is a great addition to this app. And when in the Add Effects tool, clicking Add displays ten menus with dozens of options (including vignette, which is one I use often, though subtly). By default, only a few adjustments are displayed, but if you click Add at the top right, you discover a menu with more than 15 tools. In the photos above, I’m in the Color Adjustments section, which is where you will probably make most edits to your photos. You need to take some time to explore the interface. While Pixelmator Pro’s auto-adjustments are useful, the real power comes in the wide range of editing tools available. In Pixelmator Pro, there is no such option for Curves, Levels, or even Black & White. For example, I recently learned how the Curves tool in Apple Photos can help improve the contrast and dynamic range in my photos I now often use the Auto button to see how this looks. With Pixelmator Pro, there are “ML” buttons for some tools – the ones that display by default – but not all. For example, in Apple Photos, I can click Auto buttons for Light, Color, Black & White, White Balance, and more. However, I wish Pixelmator Pro had automatic adjustment options for individual adjustments.

#PIXELMATOR APPLE PHOTO EDITOR SKIN#

I found it especially good at correcting the white balance and skin tone in this photo, which I shot with my iPhone the other day. Similar to clicking the magic wand in Apple Photos, or other automatic adjustments in various photo editing apps, I find that it is sometimes a bit heavy handed, but for many people, this is an excellent way to enhance photos. Pixelmator Pro’s ML Enhance (ML for machine learning) is an interesting tool that can automatically optimize your photos. (To access a photo editing extension, select a photo and press Return to open it in Edit mode, then click the little circle with ellipsis icon and choose Pixelmator Pro.) This is a game-changer for Apple Photos, and it now provides the best of both worlds: simple photo library management, including in the cloud, and powerful editing capabilities.

With the new Pixelmator Pro, your edit history is saved, and when you re-open a photo you edited with it as an external editor, you can go back and tweak any of the adjustments you have made. If you want to go back and tweak your changes – say you want to adjust your exposure a bit more, or change the saturation – you either work on the edited photo or you start over from your original.

When you open a photo in other external photo editors via Photos, make changes to the photo, then the finished photo is saved back to your Photos library.

You have long been able to use external photo editors with Apple Photos, but the release yesterday of Pixelmator Pro has made Apple Photos a much more powerful photo editing tool.