iPad User Magazine - UK (2019-04)

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How to Boost colour and contrast >

How to Remove unwanted objects >

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Instant fix

A shot’s colours may look drab and

washed out. Tap Import to bring a

desaturated picture into Pixelmator

Photo’s digital darkroom. By tapping the

ML magic wand icon you can instantly

boost colour and increase contrast.

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Fine-tune colour

The ML button has been activated

for every property. We can still fine-tune

the colours – manually drag the Hue &

saturation panel’s Vibrance slider right to

increase the saturation of a landscape’s

blues and greens, for example.

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Tweak the tones

Scroll to the Lightness panel. Here

you can tweak problem tones to reveal

missing detail. In this example we’ve

selectively lightened under-exposed

shadows without blowing out the sky’s

brighter highlights.

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Remove people

Sometimes you can’t control who or

what is in the frame. The Repair tool uses

machine learning to replace an unwanted

object with appropriate pixels from other

parts of the shot. Here we have an

unwanted person in the picture.

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Let us spray

Taptheplaster-shapedRepairtool

iconatthetop.Usetheslideratthe

bottomtoadjustthesizeoftheRepair

tool’sbrush.Scribbleovertheunwanted

thing–it’shighlightedyellow.TheRepair

toolwilltrytoreplacethisarea.

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Have another go

SometimestheRepairtoolfailsto

doa good job. Try shrinking the brush tip

and spraying again. It took three tries to

remove the man from our landscape. You

can then tap on Share and export the

edited shot using a range of options.

Advanced tools

Pixelmator Photo’s Machine Learning tools help novice editors improve their

colours, tones and compositions automatically, but the app also packs a punch

when it comes to professional picture processing. The Curves panel enables you

to lighten or darken specific regions by dragging points on a curve. You can also

target and tweak the colour balance of shadows, midtones and highlights for

more creative looks. There are powerful black and white conversion tools that

enable you to lighten areas based on the shot’s original colours.

Fix photos with one tap, or dive into the options

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