Photomator is a photo editing powerhouse, offering incredible tools for enhancing, retouching, and managing your photos. It includes an extensive collection of cutting-edge color adjustments, automatic selections powered by AI, powerful batch editing features, Clone and Repair tools, watermarks, and much more. Simply put, it has everything you need to make every shot your best.
The ultimate photo editing experience
• Adjust colors and lighting using a collection of powerful, nondestructive color adjustments
• Automatically make precise subject, sky, and background selections in photos using AI
• Add gradient masks, make color range selections, or simply paint over the areas you want to adjust using a brush
• Seamlessly clone or remove unwanted objects using state-of-the-art retouching tools
• Easily copy and paste edits between photos or batch edit entire photoshoots at a time
• Crop, straighten, and change the perspective of photos with a powerful and easy-to-use Crop tool
• Quickly change the look of photos using an extensive collection of presets, designed for landscape, black and white, and other photography styles
Tools powered by AI
• 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 click
• Magically increase the resolution of photos while keeping them detailed and sharp
• Remove camera noise and image compression artifacts with the Core ML-powered Denoise feature
• Instantly improve the quality of photos by removing color banding and increasing color depth with AI-powered Smart Deband feature
• Copy the look of any photo to another using the incredible color-matching feature
• Intelligently crop photos using machine learning-powered auto-cropping
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
RAW editing made simple
• Open and edit over 750 RAW image formats, including Apple ProRAW and compressed Fujifilm RAWs
• Edit RAW photos as easily as photos in other formats using all the nondestructive tools, including Repair and Clone tools
• Easily batch-edit RAW photos together with photos in other formats
Compatibility
• Edit photos on your Mac, in cloud, or on external drives with full macOS file system support
• Enjoy seamless Photos integration, instantly syncing edits between both apps
• With the support for iCloud Drive, enjoy seamless edit syncing across Mac, iPhone and iPad
Photomator is built from the ground up for Mac and integrates seamlessly with macOS Ventura. It 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.
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Looking for a simple but powerful way to freshen up your photos? Photomator makes editing approachable even if you don’t know your contrast from your saturation. With a few taps, the app lets you adjust specific color ranges, perfect your photo’s shadows, and fix up highlights. And once you’ve found settings you like, save them as your own presets.
The PERFECT Lightroom Replacement
nataliemay_art
I'm graduating university and losing access to my Adobe sub, and for the last several months have been working to find non-subscription alternatives to Adobe programs. Lightroom has by far been the hardest app to replace, and with Photomator I've found it. The UI is so simple yet includes every tool I use within Lightroom, and makes them even better. The object removal tool is far and away better than any other app I've tried, and the ability to create workflows that can be batch applied is life changing as someone who shoots sports and is required to produce edits within an hour of the end of a game. The denoise tool works wonders and has saved more photos than I can count, and the inclusion of being able to browse the Files library has pretty much rounded out everything I could possibly need. I am so thrilled to have found this app and have purchased a lifetime sub.
Developer Response
What an amazing review! Super glad that you've new found ways of improving your workflow using Photomator, thanks for sharing your experience. :)
Buggy, Useless Magic Eraser, and No Generative AI.
J.M. Sipe
Photomator is not a valid replacement for a program as robust as Adobe Lightroom for three reasons. The first is, the O hotkey to reveal and hide a mask overlay doesn’t work reliably—no matter what settings you toggle on or off. This is a big one, and a serious hindrance during editing that has no workaround. It’s a stupid issue that should not exist. Second, the “magic eraser” that the Pixelmator team likes to tout as an end-all-be-all for removing distracting objects from photos is one of many definitions for garbage. All it does is smear a shoddy jumble of pixels overtop the user’s mask. It doesn’t hide anything, and is so obviously ineffective that no serious photographer could ever trust it to do what it is advertised to do. Lastly, neither Photomator nor Pixelmator has access to generative AI to PROPERLY remove objects from photos. Photomator’s best answer to this is problem is adequate healing tools and great cloning tools that work at the pixel-level to fill in spaces on the user’s canvas as needed. But, those options are not efficient nor are they competitive in today’s market. I really wanted to like this app given how well optimised it is for use on MacOS, but it simply doesn’t do enough to justify leaving behind big industry players. Look elsewhere.
Not impressed with file system
Jimbo724
The folders on the left look like Apple Photos, which i don't like. If it is possible to Open a file in the normal manner, I cannot find it. If it is there, that functionality needs to be more obvious. If it is not there, please consider this a feature request — add the ability to open files using a regular file menu system (in addition to the Photos-like stuff on the left, if you like). Without that functionality, Photomator is just as clumsy and annoying as the Photos app and I just don't see myself using it. Frankly, I'm probably going to delete and get a refund.P.S. Okay, I found the Import... on the File menu. However, I'm still requesting a refund because it appears that you are splitting functionaility between 2 separate apps. It's also a PITA to transfer back and forth between apps when it shouldn't be necessary. Frankly, this continues the long-standing practice of ignoring reasonable feature requests of customers, even functionality that was in Pixelmator Classic (e.g. the Warhol coloring effect). If Pixelmator starts to stagnate, I'm switching to Affinity Photo, which is a lot more powerful than Pixelmator. I like Pixelmator, but not so much the company.
Developer Response
Fair feedback — full file system support is definitely coming to Photomator! It's top priority for us right now. You can also check out the Photomator roadmap https://www.pixelmator.com/photomator/roadmap/ for a list of the other exciting features we've got planned for Photomator.
This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 3.4.13
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Information
Seller
Apple Inc.
Size
617.2 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
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