The repair tool eliminates stray hairs, dust and blemishes with a quick stroke and even foreground obstructions can be removed and the background filled in using ML power.

Its non-destructive editing tools take the stress out of corrections and even retouching. It adds many machine language (ML) enhanced features that give a quick start and, in some cases, a quick finish to photo refinement. Pixelmator Photo is already a powerful iPad photo editor, enabling the user to tweak color balance, sharpness and exposure as any good image tool will. Pixelmator Photo 1.5 allows editing ProRAW on the large iPad screen where the fine details are easier to see. The difference is that RAW and ProRAW files don’t use compression that loses details and, in fact, keep data that is discarded when saving in formats that have a focus on saving space. This is a variation of RAW images that allows the use of Apple’s computational photography and multi-frame image processing, while still providing low-level creative control of dynamic range, color and detail settings that are not available when editing the more common JPEG or HEIC format images.

Pixelmator Photo 1.5 is an iPad-only app that adds support for Apple’s ProRAW format. Related: How To Use LiDAR On iPhone 12 Pro (& Why You Should) Of course, Pixelmator also makes iPhone and iPad apps. The recent Pixelmator Pro 2.0 release is optimized for M1 Mac computers and boasts big speed improvements for machine language tools, such as super-resolution which is fifteen times faster.

With regular updates, the list of features continues to grow and become more refined. Pixelmator allows the use of both pixel and vector-based tools and sports many of the same abilities as the much more expensive Photoshop at a fraction of the cost. Pixelmator has a long history of making great apps for Apple devices, starting with its first version for the Mac computer in 2007. When the ProRAW format becomes available in a rapidly approaching iOS 14.3 update, iPhone 12 Pro owners will be able to take advantage of advanced computational photography while retaining the high degree of control possible with RAW photos. The popular photo editing app, Pixelmator Photo, recently announced its 1.5 update which adds support for Apple ProRAW and as a result, will make fine adjustments using Apple’s new photo format quick and easy when using an iPad.

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