Chris Ridd <
[email protected]> wrote:
On 05/11/2024 11:37, Woody wrote:
On 1 Nov 2024 at 18:04:52 GMT, "Ian McCall" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 1 Nov 2024, Mark wrote
(in article <vg2tjt$3a56h$[email protected]>):
We’re getting a Photoshop competitor from Apple (maybe)?
<https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pixelmator/> >>>
I’m not massively happy about this. I can’t think that Apple would want >>> to compete against Photoshop (and Pixelmator doesn’t -really- do so anyway,
only for the home/low-end market that doesn’t need the print features). >>
Not happy either - I really like Pixelmator, and there is a history of those >> things not going that well!
I find Pixelmator easier to use than Affinity Photo, which of course has
also recently been bought up.
Uncertain times.
I have Photomator for my iPad. It’s certainly a good photo editor. Although my preference is to use Raw Power/Nitro (Gentlemen Coders). I find I
generally get better results for my tastes with Nitro.
I tend to use Photomator for dealing with, in particular, scanned negatives
or slides. The repair tool it has is quite good for quick touching up of
spots and scratches.
The big deal maker for me, is the way Nitro (and RP) handles the non-destructive edits. They are seamless when used with a Photos library,
as they can store the edit data within the library, using sensible storage needs - as I understand it. It’s just metadata in the stored hi res JPEG Preview that Photos uses as it’s rendered final version.
Photomator uses an external sidecar file, which can get to ridiculous sizes (200MB from a 25MB Raw image is quite usual). If I do use it for any
editing, I delete the sidecar files when I’ve finished a batch.
But yes, it does look like the future might be uncertain here, and a shame
if we lose Photomator.
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