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A tool with a powerful set of editing tools and excellent cost-effectiveness, a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop
Pixelmator Pro is an alternative application Phone Number List to Adobe Photoshop. It is especially popular because it can be used inexpensively as a one-time purchase (66,000 won) rather than a monthly subscription like Adobe's Creative Cloud app.
Moreover, it is no longer simply an alternative to Photoshop, but has developed to the point where it can be used for video editing and professional layout creation.
The Pixelmator app lineup is a bit tricky to keep track of, with names constantly changing and multiple versions being produced for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. On the Mac, Pixelmator Classic for Mac has now been discontinued, leaving only Pixelmator Pro. The mobile version combines the iPhone and iPad versions into one and is simply called ‘Pixelmator.’ Things got even more confusing recently with the release of a brand new photo editing app called Photomator that runs on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Tools and Editing Features
Pixelmator Pro for Mac offers impressive editing features. For example, AI-based tools can simplify tasks such as removing blemishes or unwanted details from images. There's also a feature to completely remove the image's background if you want, which I found useful when preparing product photos for Macworld review articles.
Users familiar with Photoshop may not be familiar with Pixelmator's interface. This can be either an advantage or a disadvantage. If you are familiar with Photoshop's shortcut keys and workflow, it may take a long time to relearn it, and it may be frustrating if you do not have a specific function that you used well in Photoshop.
On the other hand, Pixelmator can be viewed as an opportunity to shed 30-year-old baggage and try a new approach. Pixelmator Pro sticks to only the most important functions and does not try to accurately reproduce all of Photoshop's functions. Rather than providing four different methods for one task, we provide one method that is easiest and best. It also has all the features most users need, including layers with layer masks, blending modes, adjustment layers, drawing and painting tools, auto exposure, and distortion.
Overall, Pixelmator Pro provides a clean and simple experience, allowing users to focus on their images. On the left side of the app is the Layer Palette, which is a key element for utilizing Pixelmator's many powerful features. You can create both raster (bitmap) layers and vector layers. The narrow column on the right contains the tools. There are precision tools for object and color selection, and brush styles are preset but customizable. All of these features are neatly organized in a palette located along the right side of the main editing window.
The most eye-catching AI feature is a feature called ML Super Resolution, which uses machine learning to enlarge low-resolution images. It has an almost magical effect on some images, but when tested in 2021, the results were mixed. The face looked as if it had been painted, and the straight lines turned into waves. The image is now “cleaner” with noise and pixelation gone, but it looks unrealistic instead. A photo of Steve Jobs was used as an example.
ⓒ Foundry
ML Crop is a golden spiral-based automatic cropping function that allows you to obtain images with effective composition. When we tested this feature at Macworld, the results were as expected and could have been achieved manually.
Pixelmator Pro provides a useful collection of text and vector graphics tools so you can work on document design as well as pure photo editing. You can use masks to isolate specific parts of a layer or image, and you can adjust color and lighting with a powerful and precise histogram.
There are also small but helpful features like a color histogram. Have you ever tried to adjust the colors in an image, but it didn't have much of an effect? For example, to deepen the color of green areas, you may need to reduce blue or cyan hues, which may not always be visually evident. When adjusting colors, referring to the color histogram can give you a feel for how the colors spread within the image, which can help you decide which color to adjust.
Pixelmator Pro is an alternative application Phone Number List to Adobe Photoshop. It is especially popular because it can be used inexpensively as a one-time purchase (66,000 won) rather than a monthly subscription like Adobe's Creative Cloud app.
Moreover, it is no longer simply an alternative to Photoshop, but has developed to the point where it can be used for video editing and professional layout creation.
The Pixelmator app lineup is a bit tricky to keep track of, with names constantly changing and multiple versions being produced for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. On the Mac, Pixelmator Classic for Mac has now been discontinued, leaving only Pixelmator Pro. The mobile version combines the iPhone and iPad versions into one and is simply called ‘Pixelmator.’ Things got even more confusing recently with the release of a brand new photo editing app called Photomator that runs on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Tools and Editing Features
Pixelmator Pro for Mac offers impressive editing features. For example, AI-based tools can simplify tasks such as removing blemishes or unwanted details from images. There's also a feature to completely remove the image's background if you want, which I found useful when preparing product photos for Macworld review articles.
Users familiar with Photoshop may not be familiar with Pixelmator's interface. This can be either an advantage or a disadvantage. If you are familiar with Photoshop's shortcut keys and workflow, it may take a long time to relearn it, and it may be frustrating if you do not have a specific function that you used well in Photoshop.
On the other hand, Pixelmator can be viewed as an opportunity to shed 30-year-old baggage and try a new approach. Pixelmator Pro sticks to only the most important functions and does not try to accurately reproduce all of Photoshop's functions. Rather than providing four different methods for one task, we provide one method that is easiest and best. It also has all the features most users need, including layers with layer masks, blending modes, adjustment layers, drawing and painting tools, auto exposure, and distortion.
Overall, Pixelmator Pro provides a clean and simple experience, allowing users to focus on their images. On the left side of the app is the Layer Palette, which is a key element for utilizing Pixelmator's many powerful features. You can create both raster (bitmap) layers and vector layers. The narrow column on the right contains the tools. There are precision tools for object and color selection, and brush styles are preset but customizable. All of these features are neatly organized in a palette located along the right side of the main editing window.
The most eye-catching AI feature is a feature called ML Super Resolution, which uses machine learning to enlarge low-resolution images. It has an almost magical effect on some images, but when tested in 2021, the results were mixed. The face looked as if it had been painted, and the straight lines turned into waves. The image is now “cleaner” with noise and pixelation gone, but it looks unrealistic instead. A photo of Steve Jobs was used as an example.
ⓒ Foundry
ML Crop is a golden spiral-based automatic cropping function that allows you to obtain images with effective composition. When we tested this feature at Macworld, the results were as expected and could have been achieved manually.
Pixelmator Pro provides a useful collection of text and vector graphics tools so you can work on document design as well as pure photo editing. You can use masks to isolate specific parts of a layer or image, and you can adjust color and lighting with a powerful and precise histogram.
There are also small but helpful features like a color histogram. Have you ever tried to adjust the colors in an image, but it didn't have much of an effect? For example, to deepen the color of green areas, you may need to reduce blue or cyan hues, which may not always be visually evident. When adjusting colors, referring to the color histogram can give you a feel for how the colors spread within the image, which can help you decide which color to adjust.