Photomator

Name: Photomator
Rating: 4.4 (587 reviews)
Author: Apple

Your photo editing powerhouse

Free · In-App Purchases

587 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

Apple
Language

EN
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Size

824.4
MB

Photomator is the most powerful photo editing app ever designed for a mobile device. It includes an extensive collection of cutting-edge color adjustments, automatic selections powered by AI, support for over 750 RAW image formats, a magical Repair tool for removing unwanted objects, and many more powerful features, letting you enjoy pro photo editing anyplace, anytime. Everything you need to make your photos look incredible • Edit photos using a wide collection of powerful, nondestructive color adjustments • Quickly make precise subject, sky, and background selections in photos using AI, add gradient masks, and easily make selections using a brush • Effortlessly remove unwanted objects using an incredible object removal tool • Crop, straighten, rotate, and adjust the perspective of photos with an easy-to-use Crop tool • Instantly increase the resolution of photos using AI • Remove camera noise and image compression artifacts with the powerful Denoise feature • Magically remove color banding and increase color depth in photos with the AI-powered Smart Deband feature • Make your photos stand out with photographer-designed presets for landscape, black and white, and other photography styles • Easily copy and paste edits between photos or batch edit even hundreds of photographs at a time • Open and edit over 750 RAW image formats, including Apple ProRAW and compressed Fujifilm RAWs • Follow all the changes you make in the beautiful live histogram Tools powered by AI • Select the subject, sky, or background in a photo with just a tap • Improve the quality of photos by reducing camera noise with the AI-powered Denoise feature, intelligently upscale photos with Super Resolution, or magically remove color banding and increase color depth using Smart Deband • Automatically enhance shots using a machine learning algorithm trained on 20 million pro photos, or fine-tune individual adjustments, like White Balance, Selective Color, or Color Balance with a single tap • Intelligently crop photos using the AI-powered auto-cropping • Copy the look of any photo to another using the incredible Match Colors feature State-of-the-art color adjustments • Enjoy powerful tools for effortlessly adjusting the temperature, tint, exposure, contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, and vibrance in your photos • Recover incredible amounts of detail in the highlights and shadows of photos • Magically enhance fine details and structure in photos using powerful Clarity and Texture adjustments, or adjust textures in the highlights, midtones, and shadows separately • Selectively edit individual color ranges with Selective Color, or improve the balance of colors in the shadows, midtones, and highlights with Color Balance • Adjust lighting and colors with full precision using Levels and Curves adjustments • Mix the balance of the red, green, and blue color channels to create intense color effects in your images • Replace any color with any other using the Replace Color adjustment • Create beautiful black and whites even from your color photos • Use a range of additional adjustments, like Sharpen, Fade, Grain, Color Monochrome, Sepia, and Invert to make your photos stand out • Instantly change the look of photos with LUTs or export custom LUTs to use in other apps Compatibility • Automatically sync every change back to your Photos or Files browser • With the support for iCloud Drive, enjoy seamless edit syncing across Mac, iPhone, and iPad • Photomator is built from the ground up for iPhone and iPad with a native design that blends seamlessly with the sleek and modern look of iOS and iPadOS 18 • Photomator uses powerful Apple technologies like Metal, Core ML, and Core Image to deliver staggeringly fast performance, even when editing large RAW photos or batch editing multiple images at a time • Privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

587 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Don’t know your contrast from your saturation? This app makes photo editing approachable, letting you make adjustments (and save them as presets) with a few taps. It’s a simple but powerful way to freshen up your snaps.
Nice design, easy to use, intuitive
13/06/2023
Yun-Qing
Tho I hope there to be more functionalities for sorting, flagging, filtering, grouping and rating like Lightroom does. Currently it’s heavily dependent on Apple photo /file browser, tho the integration is decent. The only issue found so far is that it might get a bit laggy when having a handful of active editing layers on Mac app. Another small imperfection is the perspective correction tool. The current capability of straightening function is a bit too basic when compared to Lightroom. Id it great if straightening can be done in more precision and perhaps by drawing guide lines. Other than that, so far so good. Id recommend give it a try. Better then darkroom as a lightroom alternative. If u utilise or are willing to utilise Apple photo as ur main place to sort and store ur photography projects it will be a even better experience.

Developer Response
Hey there, thanks for the feedback! We appreciate it. Image sorting and flagging are already on the roadmap for Photomator and straightening tool improvements are on our radar as well. So stay tuned for future updates! Also, we're sorry to hear about the issues you experienced when working with layers in Photomator. If you haven't done so already, it would be great if you could email us about this at support@pixelmator.com with more details. We'd love to take a closer look at this for you.
Nice design, easy to use, intuitive
13/06/2023
Yun-Qing

Tho I hope there to be more functionalities for sorting, flagging, filtering, grouping and rating like Lightroom does. Currently it’s heavily dependent on Apple photo /file browser, tho the integration is decent. The only issue found so far is that it might get a bit laggy when having a handful of active editing layers on Mac app. Another small imperfection is the perspective correction tool. The current capability of straightening function is a bit too basic when compared to Lightroom. Id it great if straightening can be done in more precision and perhaps by drawing guide lines. Other than that, so far so good. Id recommend give it a try. Better then darkroom as a lightroom alternative. If u utilise or are willing to utilise Apple photo as ur main place to sort and store ur photography projects it will be a even better experience.
Developer Response 22/06/2023
Hey there, thanks for the feedback! We appreciate it. Image sorting and flagging are already on the roadmap for Photomator and straightening tool improvements are on our radar as well. So stay tuned for future updates! Also, we're sorry to hear about the issues you experienced when working with layers in Photomator. If you haven't done so already, it would be great if you could email us about this at support@pixelmator.com with more details. We'd love to take a closer look at this for you.
Simple. Intuitive. Fantastic.
30/04/2020
Gaby_007
Pixelmator photo for iPad strikes a good balance between usability and functionality, and has a very simple and intuitive interface. It’s not on par with affinity photo in terms of raw power but its brilliant for its speed of workflow, and I really like the built in filters. It’s also great value for money. In terms of functionality its more lightroom than photoshop, however I prefer this. I stopped using adobe by and large when it became clear that they were so far behind in mobile, and they became greedy with their subscription model. I also use pixelmator pro on mac. A feature from the Mac I would really appreciate on here would be ML SuperResolution which transforms the humble jpeg from usable image for instagram and the like to allowing one to make large high quality professional prints with the click of a button. Many may say that those making prints should be using RAW files, but those individuals are unfamiliar with Fujifilm Cameras excellent and beautiful built in film simulations which only work in jpg. Which again speed up ones workflow, but also achieve highly original photo prints. There are a few pro re-touching features I’d like in both apps, one of which that I’d appreciate sooner than later would be the ability to liquify, which again would mean less necessity to be jumping between apps to complete an edit. Well done, and Keep up the good work guys!
Simple. Intuitive. Fantastic.
30/04/2020
Gaby_007

Pixelmator photo for iPad strikes a good balance between usability and functionality, and has a very simple and intuitive interface. It’s not on par with affinity photo in terms of raw power but its brilliant for its speed of workflow, and I really like the built in filters. It’s also great value for money. In terms of functionality its more lightroom than photoshop, however I prefer this. I stopped using adobe by and large when it became clear that they were so far behind in mobile, and they became greedy with their subscription model. I also use pixelmator pro on mac. A feature from the Mac I would really appreciate on here would be ML SuperResolution which transforms the humble jpeg from usable image for instagram and the like to allowing one to make large high quality professional prints with the click of a button. Many may say that those making prints should be using RAW files, but those individuals are unfamiliar with Fujifilm Cameras excellent and beautiful built in film simulations which only work in jpg. Which again speed up ones workflow, but also achieve highly original photo prints. There are a few pro re-touching features I’d like in both apps, one of which that I’d appreciate sooner than later would be the ability to liquify, which again would mean less necessity to be jumping between apps to complete an edit. Well done, and Keep up the good work guys!
The contender has finally arrived
28/05/2024
DigitalPhotographer22
The contender has finally arrived on the iOS iPad scene. A true godsend to photographers where Adobe Lightroom used to dominate. The options provided are plenty. Photomator allows you more freedom in color grading. The HSL adjustment panel is not exclusive to the entire image alone. Each mask has its own HSL adjustment panel where changing one color’s hue, saturation and lightness affects the selected mask area and not the entire image. Especially great where sunset oranges can be adjusted in a specific area without having the image look like it’s been rummaging in a bag of Cheetos. Each individual mask can have its own lut adjustment or preset. The temperature adjustment controls render a better warmer image and vice versa. Other apps fail to enhance warmth without having images turn yellowish. The upscaling option is more than I can describe. Images are upscaled with ease and minimal quality loss. I was able to turn my old Canon 7D 16 megapixel photos to 45 megapixels. My Canon R5 images magically turn into 60 megapixel wonders. With ease. Two options are currently missing which are Dehaze and the option to choose a rectangular marquee, in which is absent in Lightroom as well. I’m glad I’ve jumped ship and will not renew my Lightroom subscription.
The contender has finally arrived
28/05/2024
DigitalPhotographer22

The contender has finally arrived on the iOS iPad scene. A true godsend to photographers where Adobe Lightroom used to dominate. The options provided are plenty. Photomator allows you more freedom in color grading. The HSL adjustment panel is not exclusive to the entire image alone. Each mask has its own HSL adjustment panel where changing one color’s hue, saturation and lightness affects the selected mask area and not the entire image. Especially great where sunset oranges can be adjusted in a specific area without having the image look like it’s been rummaging in a bag of Cheetos. Each individual mask can have its own lut adjustment or preset. The temperature adjustment controls render a better warmer image and vice versa. Other apps fail to enhance warmth without having images turn yellowish. The upscaling option is more than I can describe. Images are upscaled with ease and minimal quality loss. I was able to turn my old Canon 7D 16 megapixel photos to 45 megapixels. My Canon R5 images magically turn into 60 megapixel wonders. With ease. Two options are currently missing which are Dehaze and the option to choose a rectangular marquee, in which is absent in Lightroom as well. I’m glad I’ve jumped ship and will not renew my Lightroom subscription.

• Enjoy full support for compressed RAW images from Sony Alpha ILCE-7M5, FUJIFILM GFX 100S II and FUJIFILM GFX 100RF cameras • Work with High Efficiency (HE) and High Efficiency Star (HE*) RAW images from Nikon Z5II and Nikon Z50II cameras • Open and edit RAW images from Panasonic LUMIX DC-S1RM2 cameras captured in High Resolution mode

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Provider: Apple Distribution International
Size: 824.4 MB
Category: Photo & Video
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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