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Side note re the photo edit view, are there any particular features you think this would make sense for? In my experience, Photomator is pretty close to Photos
by robenkleene 2y ago
Side note re the photo edit view, are there any particular features you think this would make sense for? In my experience, Photomator is pretty close to Photos in functionality. And broadly speaking, Pixelmator features don't make sense in Photos (for the same reason Lightroom and Photoshop are separate apps, they're designed from the bottom up around different approaches to photo editing). Based on those two facts, the only way I can make sense of this acquisition is that they want the Pixelmator app specifically, because that's the only part that would be really hard for them to reproduce in house, and I can't think of many reasons why they'd want that besides creating a new pro suite like this.
- throw646577 2y agoPhotomator is significantly more capable than Photos on the iPad and iPhone: it very obviously has a more robust image editing pipeline, supports layers, has actually useful ML features, proper curves, vastly better colour balance editing, supports LUTs, has culling support etc. Photomator on the iPad is more capable than Photos on the Mac. Frankly I think this is an acqui-hire. I think Photomator will significantly boost the capabilities of Photos, back to an Aperture-level app. I think some of the features may even end up in the camera. Pixelmator, I don't know. I think a whole bunch of Pixelmator features do make sense as a tab/workspace in Photos, actually, but either way I don't see Apple keeping it called "Pixelmator"; I would expect to see it called "Images" (to go with Pages and Numbers, and with photo-specific stuff left in Photos).