Pixea

Name: Pixea
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: ImageTasks Inc

Image viewer + Video player

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

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4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

ImageTasks Inc
Language

EN
+ 11 More
Size

278.5
MB

Mac

Pixea is an image viewer & video player for macOS with a nice, minimalistic user interface. Pixea works great with HEIC, JPEG XL, PSD, RAW, WEBP, MKV, MP4, and many other formats. Enjoy the all-new way to browse media folders and archives. Search, filter, sort, or shuffle your media. Remove defects and unwanted objects or upscale low-resolution images with AI-powered tools. Fine-tune your photos with hue, saturation, and tone adjustments. Add watermarks. Use the built-in Batch Editor to apply image adjustments to a set of images. Define keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. Image Adjustments: Exposure, shadows, highlights, contrast, hue, saturation, brightness, color temperature, and tint. Sharpen and Denoise, Crop, Rotate, Flip, clone, and resize, Straighten horizon, Perspective correction, LUT filters (30+ built-in), Color curve, HSL per color channel, and Watermark tools. Object Removal: Use the Object Removal tool to remove unwanted objects, people, or defects. Pixea will reconstruct what was behind the object. It features great accuracy and high-resolution support to achieve amazing results. Super Resolution: Amazing 2x and 4x upscaling powered by machine learning. The algorithm is trained by analyzing millions of images. Sharpen and upscale a photo without losing its content. Unlike many competitors, Pixea's super-resolution technology supports images with an alpha channel. Yes, you can upscale icons too! Supported Image formats: JPEG, HEIC, GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG XL, AVIF, Photoshop (PSD), BMP, Fax images, macOS and Windows icons, SCV sequences, Radiance images, and Google's WebP. RAW formats: Leica DNG and RAW, Sony ARW, Olympus ORF, Minolta MRW, Nikon NEF, Fuji RAF, Panasonic RW2, Canon CR2, CR3 and CRW, Hasselblad 3FR. Sketch files (preview only). ZIP archives, CBZ comic books. Video formats: MP4, MOV, A4V, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, and MKV. Export formats: JPEG, JPEG-2000, JPEG XL, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF. * Some features require Pixea Plus subscription.

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Close to perfect
Feb 27

Sardonick007
As far as any available photo “viewer” on a Mac, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a windows style setup and something that isn’t annoying as heck. The only thing I’ve found so far is that when I open a photo, it seems to open each photo in its own window, so that I have multiple photos open, even when selecting “open in the same window for all folders”. Other than that, so far, this is near perfect.
Close to perfect
Feb 27

Sardonick007

As far as any available photo “viewer” on a Mac, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a windows style setup and something that isn’t annoying as heck. The only thing I’ve found so far is that when I open a photo, it seems to open each photo in its own window, so that I have multiple photos open, even when selecting “open in the same window for all folders”. Other than that, so far, this is near perfect.
So far, mostly good
05/06/2021

$1K Master
In a graphics viewer, I like a minimal interface with no distractions. I also prefer to see my images in their actual size, with the exception of images that are of a higher resolution than my display, in which case they should be resized to fit automatically.Pixea gets closer to this than most. The interface is minimal indeed with borderless windows, but where it fails for me is primarily the on-screen controls that pop up whenever my move my mouse. It's unnecessary if you know the keyboard commands already and there should be an option to not have that appear.I'm also not a fan of havng the window "close/minimize/zoom" buttons overlaid on my images when displayed. I know they hide "eventually", but I would actually rather just have a border on top than have those buttons overlaid onto my photos.The last gripe I have is with the fitting of my images to the window. Generally speaking, I want to see them in their actual size, with over-sized ones reduced to fit. Pixea doesn't do this. If you have it set to "Actual Size", then images that exceed my display dimensions are not completely visible.Other than this, Pixea is great. The controls are intuitive and other than my caveats above, is generally unobtrusive. Rendering can be a bit laggy compared to another viewer I've long used when panning through a folder of images, but iits rendering quality seems pretty good otherwise.
So far, mostly good
05/06/2021

$1K Master

In a graphics viewer, I like a minimal interface with no distractions. I also prefer to see my images in their actual size, with the exception of images that are of a higher resolution than my display, in which case they should be resized to fit automatically.Pixea gets closer to this than most. The interface is minimal indeed with borderless windows, but where it fails for me is primarily the on-screen controls that pop up whenever my move my mouse. It's unnecessary if you know the keyboard commands already and there should be an option to not have that appear.I'm also not a fan of havng the window "close/minimize/zoom" buttons overlaid on my images when displayed. I know they hide "eventually", but I would actually rather just have a border on top than have those buttons overlaid onto my photos.The last gripe I have is with the fitting of my images to the window. Generally speaking, I want to see them in their actual size, with over-sized ones reduced to fit. Pixea doesn't do this. If you have it set to "Actual Size", then images that exceed my display dimensions are not completely visible.Other than this, Pixea is great. The controls are intuitive and other than my caveats above, is generally unobtrusive. Rendering can be a bit laggy compared to another viewer I've long used when panning through a folder of images, but iits rendering quality seems pretty good otherwise.
Perfect for video calls
Oct 23

RH Kim
I use Pixea to present video and photo files in virtual meetings. Since it’s one app using one window, Google Meet has no problem sharing window and displaying the files. Much better than selecting new windows to share.However, one ridiculous shortcoming is that you cannot play through a video frame-by-frame. You can only skip ahead by 10 seconds or scrub the playhead bar. This makes it impossible to examine videos in detail and give feedback to others during my meetings. If they could just add this one essential feature, the app would be perfect. I even tried emailing the developer about it and got no response.
Perfect for video calls
Oct 23

RH Kim

I use Pixea to present video and photo files in virtual meetings. Since it’s one app using one window, Google Meet has no problem sharing window and displaying the files. Much better than selecting new windows to share.However, one ridiculous shortcoming is that you cannot play through a video frame-by-frame. You can only skip ahead by 10 seconds or scrub the playhead bar. This makes it impossible to examine videos in detail and give feedback to others during my meetings. If they could just add this one essential feature, the app would be perfect. I even tried emailing the developer about it and got no response.
App Will Sometimes Corrupt Your Photos
07/08/2023

$RUM
I thought at first it was my harddrive but systematically across both Intel and M! chip laptops (2019 and 2022 respectively), on both local and external harddrives (both disk and SSD) the Pixea app will randomly corrupt your photos....It wasn't always this way and it happens predicably 100% of the time if you tell Pixea to stretch your images to fit or to fill screen in slideshow mode. This seems isolated to the latest update of the app. So I'd say buyer beware. ...It should be noted that I did check my original source photos both in Photoshop, Adobe Bridge and Lightroom just to make sure the source images were intact. Always it was only after being previewed (even while the slideshow is running) that Pixea would corrupt my photos.

Developer Response
Pixea is not able to corrupt photos or files, as it requests read-only access when viewing images.
App Will Sometimes Corrupt Your Photos
07/08/2023

$RUM

I thought at first it was my harddrive but systematically across both Intel and M! chip laptops (2019 and 2022 respectively), on both local and external harddrives (both disk and SSD) the Pixea app will randomly corrupt your photos....It wasn't always this way and it happens predicably 100% of the time if you tell Pixea to stretch your images to fit or to fill screen in slideshow mode. This seems isolated to the latest update of the app. So I'd say buyer beware. ...It should be noted that I did check my original source photos both in Photoshop, Adobe Bridge and Lightroom just to make sure the source images were intact. Always it was only after being previewed (even while the slideshow is running) that Pixea would corrupt my photos.
Developer Response 09/21/2023
Pixea is not able to corrupt photos or files, as it requests read-only access when viewing images.

Bug fixes and improvements: • WebP lossless export could apply compression in some cases • Some images could be zoomed incorrectly after the first run • Minimum window width could be set incorrectly when opening images from Recents

Version 8.0.1

Dec 12

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