Interesting, thanks for the tip. With the recent upgrade in LRC Photoshop is almost unnecessary for most of us amatures.

Thank you, I have just saved some money.

Thanks Andy

I got a license of Apple Logic about 11 years ago. Until today I continue to receive updates without paying a single additional penny. I hope Apple does the right thing with Pixelmator and we can continue to receive good updates for years.

'Simplest changes' are often the best; thanks for sharing. Mike in Oz

It seems great but what about the noise level...if you underexpose and than bring it back in post processing you will inyroduce much more noise to the image. Have you considered this?

LRC definitely makes it easy, but do you like it better than doing a multi-exposure photo using layers & blending in PS? Just curious. I haven't tried in PS as of yet. Like you I always shoot on each side of the zero on my cameras exposure meter but usually just pick one to work with in LR. Thanks for any replies.

Thanks Andy, I wouldn’t have thought of developing the photo that way. I’ll want to try those methods soon 😁

Useful video, nicely explained. I used to use it but not now, don't think I will again.

great review! you're very engaging. thank you for sharing!

Another good video, Andy. I know you're a fan of the demosaicing in DxO Photolab for processing your raw files (as am I), but that is one app that does not have a traditional radial mask. I would be interested in seeing how you would go about the same task with the same photos in PL8 to achieve similar results.

Thanks Andy, useful reference. I would normally have used HDR. Lesson learnt. Cheers

Nice tip again mate! Thanks

Useful review! Thanks a lot Andy!

I'm moving away from LR and Photoshop. Will these tools function in a freestanding mode? Or perhaps within a future Apple/Photomator workflow?

Great tutorial. Your comment on fine art collections and art hanging in your mum’s back room made me laugh out loud. So true. Great tips I’ll be trying this evening.

The major problem with ON1 is stability. It keeps crashing even when my computer is equipped with all the hardware requirements. I upgraded several times and I am always disappointed. Too much promises. I am switching to DxO PhotoLab.

Just saw this and was fascinated. In the beginning, you mentioned that their are pros/cons to the Apple Photos/Files options, but never came back to that. Apple charges a lot for iCloud storage, What are the disadvantages of the Files mode?

It's been bought and sold a few times now, but somehow survived... One of the oldest photography sites and sharing platforms still exists, still remains photographer biased... For now... Flickr! Shoutout to those who buck the trend

Thank you Andy for the helpful tutorial and tips! God bless, good lock and keep creating!

Soon we can just ask AI to take the photo too based on text imput. Not a fan of most visual AI Tools. I did have some fun with portraits and Evoto AI but did not notice or try any generative tools. But it does look like SAAS Photo Editing is here for the long run. Updates happen faster...but so does wallet drain.

After purchasing, I just found out neither Photomator or Pixelmator Pro supports Sony A7IV or A7RV Raw files... What?! Did not even bother to check as these are 2 of the most widely used and popular bodies out now. Buyers beware.

Great review! I just tried Photomator and found glaring holes - such as no lens correction on the iPad version. I have a Mac too, but would like to be able to do some editing away from home. Affinity Photo seems to be missing a lot of basic adjustments in their raw editing. Also, DNGs show up blank. Just a black screen. My best finals have come from Darktable, but that’s complex, and slow - even on an M2 with 16GB RAM (with NO Metal GPU acceleration). AI masking for complex, multi hue subjects are the main area that I’d like. AI generative, in my opinion, is just 🍌🍌🍌

Peak to looks like a good product & I would love to replace the Lightroom image management system. Question: can I edit images on my laptop, while all of my images are located on a desktop upstairs? Also I am “wed” to the print module in LR because I have custom print templates setup to print greeting cards. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks cgb

This is now my go to editor for photography, with Affinity Photo if you want a full range of raster image manipulation. Finding the AI features in ON1 to be working rather well.

Is Andy Hutchinson the most over-rated youtube channel?

Is it possible the Apple need a replacement for the now long dead Aperture?

Bought iPad Photomator just 10 days ago...🤣

This is why I 'root' my Android devices. If a developer pushes out an update I don't like, I can roll it back, turn off auto-update for that app.

Great tip, thanks!

Maybe Apple Photos will become like Aperture was and we can ditch Adobe.

Thank you. I've now learned my lesson a few years ago. I only buy (rare) or subscribe if I have no choice (LR Classic) as the other apps get sucked into the OS sooner or later. Even an app where I had bought a "lifetime License" screwed me over and wanted more money.

I hope the reason for this one is that they're going to take eg local edits and stuff from Photomator and add it to Apple Photos but who knows

There's still a chance that Pixelmator Pro will remain and will even be expanded upon by Apple, like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. But I have less hope for Photomator, which has too much overlap with Apple's own Photos app. I expect we'll see a few things from Photomator end up in Photos, while development of Photomator is paused and the app will be delisted on the app store after some time.

I think you have picked the wrong acquisition to make this video around. From the industry chatter, Apple have been closely collaborating with and nurturing that company for a few years and are absorbing it to fill the professional gap they created when they killed off Aperture, as well as capitalising on the current exodus from Adobe products after their TOS changes (which are the reason that my company cannot use Photoshop and more and moved to Pixelmator Pro).

Yes, quite so, Andy. Well said. I subscribed to Photomator for one year ending May 2025, and I'm glad that I did not opt for the outright purchase option. Shame, the app has real promise and the interface is superb. I am curious as to why Apple purchased Photomator, since the skills base they are buying seems image processing related, but maybe they are more interested in the Pixelmator Pro market segment since Photomator is new and has a relatively small custom base as compared to Pixelmator Pro. I guess we are lucky to have an excellent, stable for the foreseeable future, option in Photolab 8, currently on a Black Friday discount...

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very useful video. I adopted Photolab8 and I love it. However I never payed attention to that slider and now I know how to use it. Thanks.

Andy laying the law !

How is 'protection' to be understood with this slider. Is it a simple desaturation, as available with the negative side of the Vibrancy slider and the sliders in the Channel Mixer, or something else? When I over-saturate green and orange-to-red colors in PhotoLab 8, this protection slider at 100 % has minimal effect on the saturation of those colors (arw-file).

I am coming from On1 2024 and I am considering switching to PhotoLab 8, it seems that you giving thumbs up for many reasons. 😀

After " looking " at numerous you tube reviews on this and the DJI equivalent, it seems the Potensic has a bit of an issue with the colour Green it , to me and others, seems oversaturated, too dense and not natural in almost every comparison. your thoughts ??

Thanks for this tip; I did not know about it! The Luma Contrast tone curves are really handy, too, letting us increase contrast w/o increasing saturation.

Totally agree Andy. Everything is becoming so removed from our humanity ,I’m off to a forest lol if I can find one.

I was thinking to join the Photomator world couple of weeks ago, then came the acquisition announcement. Now struggling whether to go ahead for a lifetime plan and see when an OS update will kill or to go for other options like ON1/Camerabag. On the ON1 free trials, a bit of mix as sometimes, the AI things seems overcooked and sometimes look weird, sky swap AI also make me feel, am I creating an image or enhancing my image :).

Ah bummer. I am glad that I kind of hedged my bets by subscribing to Photomator and bought DxO7 Photolab this summer. I like both, but Photomator is more fun to use. Remember when software was fun to use? Thanks for the video Andy! A humorous take on monopoly Capitalism.

Dark Sky was Cored (Apple) rather than Zucked.

Thanks for great collection of information :)

It’s not entirely true big companies struggle to innovate. They can. Bell Labs was a thing, Xerox had a famed R&D division, Corning and many others. That era of big corporate research labs gave us the foundations of most of our modern tech. A recent paper I read, can’t recall where, had the idea that it was a combination of loosened antitrust rules and government research spending that took us off track. The government forking over cash to universities had the effect of allowing companies to rely on the government to pay for it instead. If someone else did come up with a good idea outside of a public domain setting, they were free to buy them up. What the paper was really trying to figure out was why modern productivity growth is so bad; they were thinking when companies funded it there was always a purpose, discipline, accountability. And they would force multiple disciplines together if it seemed to be needed, instead of what you see in academia where it’s more siloed off. In government research funding, yeah, there’s pretty much none of that. I think I saw something about a federally funded research project giving cocaine to ducks recently. All that to say, big companies can innovate, and can probably do better R&D than any other institution. We just disincentive them from doing so any more.