App Store Gems: Pixelmator Pro makes your photos brilliant on Mac

Every day we do a tour of the internet for you to find the best apps from the App Store for your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. Today OMT editor Jeroen Kraak presents you Pixelmator Pro. The ideal Photoshop alternative.

Normally we search the internet especially for you for the best apps for your iPhone or iPad, but this time we got the tip for Pixelmator Pro for the Mac from our forum. We certainly agree with forum great Ome Kor that this is an ideal alternative to Photoshop.

Not Photoshop but Pixelmator Pro on Mac

Pixelmator Pro is a photo editing program specially developed for the Mac. In this program you have more than fifty tools to make your photos or drawings as beautiful as possible. The app therefore also scores very high ratings in the App Store.

Because the app is really only made for the Mac, everything feels very natural. It therefore supports almost all macOS functions.

Machine learning makes it very easy with Pixelmator Pro to remove the background from an image, increase a resolution and remove noise, for example. You can easily remove unwanted objects with the special repair tool.

It all sounds very complicated, but the strength of Pixelmator Pro is its simplicity. The menus and applications are all quite simple to understand, so you don’t have to watch hours of tutorials. Still, you have quite a few extensive options to make your image even better.

Not that creative? Then you can create beautiful designs by using one of the more than two hundred templates created by Pixelmator Pro. These come in all kinds of different types: from poster size to a post for your social media.

The ideal deal for the amateur photographer

The app is therefore mainly intended for the amateur photographer who wants to get the most out of his photo. This way you can only work on one photo at a time, instead of dozens at a time as with Photoshop. Still, that last option isn’t necessary for most of us.

The great thing about Pixelmator Pro is that it is cheaper than Photoshop for your Mac. You pay a one-time fee of 59.99 euros for the app, while you have to take out a monthly subscription for Photoshop.