Pixelmator Photo Now Available on iPhone

[JetBlack7]

You don’t - just go through the motions and you’ll get a pop up saying you’re not charged.

Nope. It’s good, but it’s not lightroom.

Yep.

Wow. Broke now after 3.49? Anyway. You obviously hadn’t previously bought the iPad version of Pixelmator Photo. If you did then contact Apple because it’s not a separate purchase.

Probably a different version. This is pixelmator photo and until today was only available on the iPad. Not to be confused with pixelmator pro.

I sighed, not complained.

 

[Scott Cosner]

Keep in mind Pixelmator and Pixelmator Photo are separate apps. "Buying" Pixelmator Photo on iPhone gives it to you for free if you had Pixelmator Photo for iPad prior.

 

[mainemini]

As others have said, Pixelmator Photo is more comparable to apps like Lightroom, Luminar, CaptureOne, DxO Photolab, etc. It’s focus is on raw development, imaging cataloging. Most have powerful adjustment features like exposure, contrast, highlight/shadow recovery, noise reduction, lens distortion correction, etc, but only have basic editing features like red-eye removal and healing brush tools. These programs are geared almost exclusively towards digital photography as opposed to digital art in general.

Pixelmator Pro is more akin to Photoshop or Affinity Photo. These programs tend to be more focused on one image at a time and their offerings focus more on image editing and creation tools rather than photography adjustments. These include layers, effect and distortion filters, more advanced text and vector drawing tools, painting tools, and such. The tools offered extend to full on digital content creation, not just photography. The down side is that their raw development tools might not be as advanced as an app like Lightroom.

Most users will use both apps in conjunction with one another. For example most users will start in Lightroom or a similar app to catalog images, do the initial raw processing and adjustments. Often they can do everything they need in Lightroom and not need to send the image to Photoshop for further processing, but if they want to go further from there they can send the developed raw file to Photoshop to edit more extensively. A similar workflow would exist between Pixelmator Photo and Pixelmator Pro.

If that's the case, it seems a bit odd to me that, unlike Lightroom, there is no MacOS verson of Pixelmator Photo, only Pixelmator Pro on MacOS and Pixelmator Photo on ipadOS and iOS.

I'm new to these so still figuring out how to best use them.