![]() ![]() The crop tool also includes options to crop according to common aspect ratios, rotate images 90 degrees at a time, flip images horizontally or vertically, straighten images automatically or with a dial, and adjust an image’s perspective horizontally or vertically. Apps like Deep Crop do something similar, but it’s nice to have the functionality built in as a feature in Pixelmator Photo where it’s easy to use alongside the app’s other tools. For instance, there’s an ML-crop tool that uses machine learning to suggest how to crop your image. The crop tool allows you to crop an image by dragging the sides or corners of an image as you’d expect, but there are some interesting advanced features as well. ML Enhance isn’t perfect, but I’ve found that often, I don’t have to make any additional edits to a photo, or I can use ML Enhance as a starting point from which I make further adjustments manually. With a single tap, ML Enhance uses its machine learning-tuned algorithm to apply a series of adjustments to an image. For quick edits, ML Enhance has a dedicated button in the toolbar. If you’ve used Pixelmator Pro on the Mac, you’ll already be familiar with the tools in Pixelmator Photo. Tapping on the top edge of the screen again brings the toolbar back. For a completely distraction-free view of an image, tapping on the toolbar causes it to slide up out of view. The left side controls navigation back to the document browser and photo import UI and also includes undo 1 and revert buttons. The app’s ML Enhance, healing, cropping, and editing tools, along with sharing functionality and settings are all accessed from the righthand side of the toolbar. Pixelmator Photo’s UI is dominated by the image being edited. ![]() Until then, I can tolerate the somewhat inelegant way accessing photos is handled in return for the benefit of opening images from any iOS file provider. Either the Photos app should be a file provider or the app should have a dedicated iCloud Drive folder from which photos could be accessed from within the Files app. Pixelmator’s implementation is about as good as it could be under the circumstances, but it also highlights the awkwardness that results from Photos not being an iOS file provider. Now, you can save images in a project folder on iCloud Drive or on any other online storage provider and edit them without using the iCloud Photo Library as an intermediary. I expect most people, myself included, will continue to import most of their photos from their iCloud Photo Library, but the option to access images stored elsewhere allows new flexibility not found in most other apps. From this separate import view, you can also mark images as favorites, which you’ll see reflected the next time you open the Photos app. ![]() ![]() Tapping either the plus button on the right side of the toolbar or the rectangular Import Photo button at the top of the document browser’s list of files switches to a view of your iCloud Photo Library. Paired with an iPad, I can quickly edit and share photos stored remotely without having to import them into Photos, where they’re interspersed with iPhone photos, and I avoid having to painstakingly pick through hundreds of photos using iOS’ very basic import UI.Īlthough importing from your iCloud Photo Library is a separate UI from Pixelmator Photo’s document browser, it’s just one tap away. I use the My Passport SSD to offload images I take with my Sony a6500 camera. With the Files document browser inside Pixelmator Photo, I can also access images stored on my Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro SSD using its My Cloud app or FE File Explorer Pro as a file provider. Because Pixelmator Photo provides access to those photos and screenshots in Dropbox, I can make any necessary edits and then save the final image to Photos or our CDN. I also store Mac screenshots for reviews in Dropbox and Keep It. Later, I’ll go through and pick my favorites and add only those to Photos. For example, if a friend shares a folder of photos from an event with me, I often save it in Dropbox. It’s not ideal to have two different UIs for opening photos, but Pixelmator Photo has done about as good a job as can be expected given the current constraints of iOS.Īlthough I suspect most users edit photos in their photo library more often than not (myself included), I still appreciate having the document browser to access pictures that are stored elsewhere. It launches into a document browser view where you can access and edit photos stored outside your iCloud Photo Library and has separate import buttons that access your iCloud Photo Library. Instead, the app does the next best thing. That limitation of iOS means Pixelmator Photo cannot access your iCloud Photo Library from within the document browser, which provides an interface for opening documents that’s similar to Apple’s Files app. That’s in no small part because the Photos app is not a file provider. ![]()
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