Pixelmator Photo for iPad offers machine learning-based editing tools for photographs

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in iOS edited October 2018
The developers behind the popular image editing application Pixelmator are planning to release a new iPad app, Pixelmator Photo, which aims to provide all of the tools needed to perform desktop-class alterations to photographs on Apple's tablet.




Rather than providing a full image creation and editing experience as offered by Pixelmator Pro for macOS and Pixelmator for macOS and iOS, Pixelmator Photo instead will focus more on adjusting photographs. Supporting RAW images from over 500 cameras, the app will provide ways to alter images in a non-destructive manner, preserving the original photograph.

Foundational adjustments to brightness, exposure, and saturation will be offered alongside other changeable items, such as levels, curves, grain, and many others. The added Repair and Crop tool will allow users to make more substantial changes to create the perfect image, such as by removing blemishes or even entire objects from the scene.

The app will take advantage of Core ML, with machine learning used to power a number of features, including ML Crop's suggestions to improve the composition of a photo. When users elect to change the aspect ratio, ML Crop will offer a potential place to position the cropping box, which can be further tweaked before finishing the editing process.




Trained on 20 million professional photographs to learn how to use exposure, white balance, and color ranges, ML Fix can be used to perform basic changes to an image quickly and automatically. The use of photo-based training was previously provided to Pixelmator Pro users in the 1.2 update earlier this month, with similar automated changes provided by ML Enhance.

Machine learning-enhanced film presets can be used to emulate the appearance of analog film, developed by analyzing photographs using classic films such as Kodak Porta, Fujifilm Superia, and Ilford HP5. Another tool, ML Presets, can balance the lighting and colors in a photo before applying selected presets, to preserve the styling of each film type.

Pixelmator Photo will be arriving on iPad later this year. Pricing for the app has yet to be announced.
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  • Reply 1 of 7
    maciekskontaktmaciekskontakt Posts: 1,169member
    Trained professionally on professional photograps will make someone's photographs look like photograps from other professional photograps. Way to go with creativity. Sounds like sarcastic commercial with interview. If you want professional rese3arch then ask Siri (or Alexa). This will give you solution. As much as I understand that many need just this, creative people do not need professional sesttings and need the same tool as professionals to experiment. Only this is the way to creativity.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    rob53rob53 Posts: 3,251member
    Trained professionally on professional photograps will make someone's photographs look like photograps from other professional photograps. Way to go with creativity. Sounds like sarcastic commercial with interview. If you want professional rese3arch then ask Siri (or Alexa). This will give you solution. As much as I understand that many need just this, creative people do not need professional sesttings and need the same tool as professionals to experiment. Only this is the way to creativity.
    There's all sorts of Photoshop actions available on the web that assist users with creating a certain effect. That's all Pixelmator is doing. Why not include these? What's wrong with using the experience of someone else? That's what you do when you take a photography class.

    (first search result I found) https://www.creativebloq.com/photoshop/photoshop-actions-912784 typical set of 63 free Photoshop actions 
    doozydozen
  • Reply 3 of 7
    pk22901pk22901 Posts: 153member
    Can Pixelmator edited photos continue to be edited by Photoshop?
  • Reply 4 of 7
    rob53rob53 Posts: 3,251member
    pk22901 said:
    Can Pixelmator edited photos continue to be edited by Photoshop?
    Quick answer is yes.

    Took a photo shot on my iPhone 8Plus, opened it in Pixelmator Pro, exported as PSD (ended up being in the 60MB range after exporting), opened in Photoshop CC and it opened. Here's some screenshots of the default information.



    doozydozen
  • Reply 5 of 7
    eliangonzaleliangonzal Posts: 490member
    Anyone else have the feeling there's going to be a Pixelmator Fix or a Pixelmator Mix at some point?
  • Reply 6 of 7
    dr. xdr. x Posts: 282member
    How does this differ from Affinity Pro for iPad?



  • Reply 7 of 7
    fastasleepfastasleep Posts: 6,420member
    maciekskontakt said:
    Trained professionally on professional photograps will make someone's photographs look like photograps from other professional photograps. Way to go with creativity. Sounds like sarcastic commercial with interview. If you want professional rese3arch then ask Siri (or Alexa). This will give you solution. As much as I understand that many need just this, creative people do not need professional sesttings and need the same tool as professionals to experiment. Only this is the way to creativity.
    You obviously have never had to run a batch of a thousand photos through an adjustment preset before sending to a client for review. Photoshop and Lightroom have had Auto Levels/Color/Contrast among other things for many many years. It’s also a starting point before making further adjustments. There’s no reason this needs to be 100% to be “creative”, you obviously don’t even work in this field. 
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