Updated on Tuesday, all of the features of image editor Pixelmator Pro are now available within Apple’s Photos, giving the default app far more powerful editing tools than before.
Pixelmator Pro (left) is bringing powerful image editing tools to Apple Photos
On Tuesday, the makers of Pixelmator Pro updated the app —and brought its features into Apple’s own Photos. Right within Photos, you can now use all of Pixelmator Pro 1.4‘s tools on an image, and everything is saved in Apple’s app. You get the rich extra functionality of a full-blown image editing app, but you never have to actually open it.
You will, because you don’t work exclusively on images that you store in Photos, but you don’t have to. If you’re used to doing only the most rudimentary edits in Photos, and especially if you’re used to instead exporting an image to another editor, the abilities this update gives you are striking.
It could be smoother to get into and out of, although that’s entirely because of how Apple organizes its Photos app and what are called Photos Extensions.
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