What’s the Difference Between Pixelmator, Pixelmator Photo, and Pixelmator Pro?

Now that Pixelmator Photo was launched for the iPhone, I assumed it could be good to clarify the variations between all three apps, as a result of they do exist.Pixelmator is the unique app that the staff launched in 2007. It’s out there for iPhone and iPad, and you may obtain it for the Mac underneath the identify Pixelmator Classic. It’s a picture editor with customary options like blur, heal, resize, management colour, set filters, and so on.You can use it as a portray app by selecting from a choice of brushes to emulate oil portray, watercolor, pens, pencils, chalk, and extra. You also can use it for graphic design so as to add shapes, textual content, shadows, outlines, gradient fills, and extra to your creations.It doesn’t have the ML Super Resolution software to upscale your pictures, though you may resize them. It additionally doesn’t have the one-tap Auto button to mechanically edit your photographs.Pixelmator Photo is on the market on iPad and iPhone however not Mac. This app is totally about enhancing your photographs and doesn’t have any instruments for graphic design or portray. You’ll discover all or most of the enhancing instruments it’s essential to management colour, publicity, shadows and highlights, and extra.It does have the ML Super Resolution software however to date you may’t management the top or width of the picture. You faucet the Super Resolution button and that’s it. It additionally options the firm’s ML Denoise software that can take away digicam noise and compression artifacts.Pixelmator ProThis is the firm’s improve to Pixelmator Classic and is barely out there for the Mac. Like Classic, it has every thing you want for pictures, graphic design, and portray. Recent options embrace Magic Background Eraser, which may mechanically delete the background of a picture. Select Subject will mechanically choose the topic of any picture, with only a click on. Like Pixelmator Photo, you’ll discover AI instruments to denoise, auto-edit, and auto-crop pictures. It additionally encompasses a small choice of filters.ML Super Resolution in Pixelmator Pro does allow you to management the top and width. By that I imply, you may sort in a width of say 2,000 pixels and it scales the picture to that width. Pixelmator Pro additionally has actions for Shortcuts, and to date is the solely Pixelmator app that does.