Photomator is here for the Mac, completing its long journey to bringing itself to all Apple platforms!

This is a casual tour of my favorite things in the app, including a healing brush demo that left me speechless for a few seconds 👀

https://youtu.be/o99C2TSn8jA

@matt I was offered the Exclusive Lifetime Offer (69.99€) when I installed the Mac app, I think because I previously purchased the app on iPadOS... ?

Here’s the absolute dark magic it did removing my dog from a photo.

Obviously I reverted the changes, but this is damn impressive.

@nileane That’s what I expected as well, but it just offered me the first year of the subscription for half price. Weird.

@matt huh. Weird

@matt 😮

@matt I think it’s the same as in Pixelmator Pro? And you’re right it’s amazing!

@matt For the mask you wanted the other plus button. That lesser plus button and minus button add or remove from the selected layer mask, but you wanted the big plus that makes a new layer mask. Good overview and kind of confirmed some stuff I felt when I played around with it today.

@joesteel Oh, for the Lightroom bit where I fell apart and didn’t really know what the hell was going on but the camera was rolling anyway? 😂

Thank you!

@matt @pixelmator If I already use and like Pixelmator Pro, is there a reason to use this instead?

@matt holy guacamole.

@Granneman @pixelmator It’s a tough question. IMO there’s some overlap, but they do very different things for me. Pixelmator is more aimed at doing bigger editing to images, as well as creating art with vectors and brushes and whatnot (aka Photoshop), but Photomator is for editing camera photos for color, grain, exposure, etc. (aka Lightroom).

@joshginter I was genuinely shocked. I was going to use this image as an example of how these can’t do everything…and then it nailed it.

@matt great quick overview! Strange how Pixelmator is more powerful than Apple’s Photos in editing photos and yet, it looks simpler and more approachable.

@matt it’s like Google’s magic eraser on steroids

@matt Would love to replace my Adobe Lightroom subscription with this, but has Pixelmator / Photomator caught up yet? Lightroom used to be miles ahead with color and luminance editing.

@toni I'm in the same boat, and I think I'll personally keep using Lightroom, but that's mostly because my work pays for it. If I had to pay $10/month to keep using it, I would try to make this work.

Honestly, the smart denoise feature Lightroom just added changed the game for me. It's so ridiculously good and I use it a lot for product photography.