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There is no noise reduction and no vignette tool. I did miss a couple of features that Pixelmator Photo does not have… yet. The range and quality of these panels is high - it’s closer to Lightroom or Aperture than Apple’s Photos. Each of these blocks has one or more sliders and in some cases additional controls.

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If you open the adjustments panel it contains a series of blocks for White Balance, Hue and Saturation, Lightness, Colour Balance, Selective Colour, Levels, Curves, Replace Colour, Black and White, Colour Monochrome, Sepia, Fade, Channel Mixer, Invert, Sharpen, and Grain. The rest of Pixelmator Photo is quite like other photo processing apps, though it is clearly aimed at exactly that… photo processing. If you’re not happy with the result, you can either undo the machine learning, or use that as a starting point. A single tap on the main toolbar “ML” button sets Lightness, White Balance, Hue & Saturation, Selective Colour, and Colour Balance in one go, or you can selectively apply machine learning to any of these within those tools.

If you’re not sure what sliders to tweak, you can ask Pixelmator Photo to use its built in machine learning capability to have a go at improving your photo. I had the photo in front of me and editable in 8 seconds.

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As a test, I opened one such RAW file using the FileExplorer application’s network connection over wifi to my Mac to fetch the file off an external SSD. In my use of the app there was NO lag of any kind when adjusting sliders on a 24 megapixel, 14-bit RAW file which weighs in over 30 megabytes in size.

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You can then seamlessly and quickly perform non-destructive processing on the image with the full dynamic range that RAW files provide. Pixelmator Photo handles RAW images using iOS built in support so can understand images from over 500 different camera models. With Pixelmator Photo’s Share Sheet item, you can open a picture directly from almost anywhere. For more power, Pixelmator Photo lets you use the iOS file picker and this is incredibly versatile, as you can open and save images with any service that integrates with the Files app, such as Dropbox, OneDrive, or iCloud Drive itself.

Pixelmator Photo can import images from your iCloud Photo Library, which is nothing unusual, but when you’re done processing your image you can either save it back to the original as an edit (allowing for Photos’ native “revert to original” capability) or as a new photo. There are some key features of Pixelmator Photo that stand out for me over other iOS photo apps. It turned out to be almost the perfect app for processing RAW photos from my DSLR camera while on the go. However, your mileage may vary, so I recommend testing it out for yourself.Pixelmator Photo for iPad was launched, rather fortuitously, just before I went on holiday. This is to be expected of AI, and while I applaud Pixelmator Team for implementing such unique functionality into the app, it's not something that I personally utilize regularly. Its Machine Learning artificial intelligence features are pretty innovative and can provide some really nice results, but other times can render some undesired output.

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If you're a photographer who needs to do fine-detailed photo editing, Pixelmator Photo may not be the software for you. While it does have nice options for levels, curves, hue, saturation, contrast, built-in presets, etc., sometimes I want more options than what Pixelmator Photo has to offer.

It's not trying to be an application for painting or drawing, which is what Pixelmator is for, and it doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of Affinity Photo for iPad. Pixelmator Photo is primarily focused on editing and adjusting photos nondestructively.

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