Pixelmator Photo is best used full-screen on the iPad, but the ability to use it next to other apps or compare two images side-by-side would be a big advantage. I’d also like to see Split View and multiwindow support added.
I’d love to see an ‘Add to Siri’ button alongside the workflow settings, so I could combine its workflows with those of other photo editors and utilities. One thing I wish Pixelmator Photo’s batch processing had is Shortcuts integration. For a complete rundown of what you can do with Pixelmator Photo’s editing tools, check out my review of version 1.0.
#How to use pixelmator to edit photos update
The latest update to Pixelmator Photo hasn’t changed the editing tools available to users, so I won’t cover them again here. Pixelmator Photo has new export options too. If you want to make more refined edits, Pixelmator Photo’s other editing tools are available to apply to individual images. The new workflows are perfect for those sorts of broad edits that are applicable to several images. I expect to use Pixelmator Photo’s batch processing a lot for quickly touching up a group of photos and sending them to friends and family and doing things like resizing MacStories Weekly images to a specific pixel width to meet the size limits imposed by MailChimp. If the Export toggle is on though, Pixelmator Photo displays the share sheet at the end of the process so you can send the images to another app. If the Export toggle is turned off in your workflow, the edits are saved to Photos or Files. When you apply a workflow to a group of images, Pixelmator Photo displays the status of each as they’re processed. Alternatively, you can start entirely from scratch with a custom workflow, adding machine learning tweaks and filters, rotation and straightening, cropping to different aspect ratio presets, and exporting to a bunch of file types at differing qualities and scales. There’s a Reset button that allows you to start over with the original workflow at any time if you don’t like the changes you’ve made. My favorite part of the built-in workflows is that they can be edited, which gives users a head start on creating their own workflows. The ML set shows off different aspects of Pixelmator Photo’s machine learning-enhanced editing tools, Presets applies different filters to photos, Rotate handles image rotation and straightening, and Export takes care of converting images to various file types, scaling, and image quality adjustments.
#How to use pixelmator to edit photos plus
Pixelmator includes four sets of pre-built batch processing workflows: ML (machine learning), Presets, Rotate, and Export, plus a fifth set for organizing your custom workflows. Pixelmator Photo adds batch image-processing workflows. It’s a simple modal switch necessitated by the fact that iCloud Photo Library isn’t a file provider, but handled in about as simple a way as possible and with the benefit that there’s no longer a need to import iCloud Photo Library images into the app. Tap the button and the UI switches to the other view.
At the top of Pixelmator Photo’s image picker UI, there’s a button that either says ‘Show Photos’ or ‘Show Files,’ depending on which you’re currently viewing. Now, you can switch between your iCloud Photo Library and file providers with a single tap. That’s changed with the latest update to Pixelmator Photo, which adds a direct view of the images in your iCloud Photo Library. However, the trouble was and remains that iCloud Photo Library is not a file provider, which meant that to edit photos in the original version of Pixelmator Photo, images had to be imported first, creating duplicates. It’s a fantastic feature that I called out in my review because I love being able to edit photos stored in Keep It, Working Copy, Western Digital’s My Cloud app connected to my My Passport Wireless SSD, and other file providers. When Pixelmator Photo launched, it was one of the first and best implementations of Files’ Document Browser in a photo editor. It’s an interesting mix of updates that I expect will appeal to a wide audience even though there remain iPadOS features I’d like to see adopted in the future.
There are also new batch-processing workflows and better options for exporting images. With the update, you can now now edit images in your iCloud Photo Library non-destructively without creating duplicates. Pixelmator Photo for the iPad has been released with a trio of new features that greatly increase the power of the app.
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