I mainly do editing in Lightroom but I also regularly use Nik Collection apps, especially Silver Efex Pro for black-and-white conversions. I’ve edited with apps from the Nik Collection (Analog Efex, Color Efex, Silver Efex Pro - I paid $150 for the package, then Google bought the company and released the apps for free, then abandoned it, then sold the apps to ON1 which is now offering it for $60ish), Pixelmator Pro, Image Tricks Pro, Split Lab, Pop Dot Comics, Shapeover, Viveza, Focus, Fold Defy, Fotor, Moku Hanga, Kyoobik Photo and maybe one or two more I’ve missed.įor my DSLR photos, which I shoot in RAW, I use Lightroom to manage, keyword, edit and share/print. Some of the apps offer photo adjustments, others (like Moku Hanga and all the Jixipix apps) transform photos entirely. Note that for me, since these are not images I usually care tremendously about, I use all sorts of free and cheap apps and extensions, of varying quality, and I just play. I use outside apps and extensions to work on copies of the original image, which then gets saved back into Photos alongside the untouched original. I use Photos app exclusively for my non-serious iPhone images, so I’m not precious with them. (And those aren’t the only apps I’ll use.) Likewise, on the Mac I’ll use the stock Photos app with a number of image editor extensions - and even apps that aren’t plug-ins via Alex Kent’s excellent free Open In extension - for editing my iPhone pics, and I’ll use Lightroom/Photoshop for managing and editing my DSLR photos. It doesn’t do photo adjustments, perspective editing, b&w options or image framing as well as the iOS apps I mentioned above. I’d never let myself be restricted to Pixelmator for photo adjustments. And I similarly use multiple Mac apps as well. Only two of the iOS apps I use, Photoshop/Lightroom and Pixelmator Pro, have macOS analogues. I periodically use several iOS apps alone - including Darkroom, SKRWT, Camera+ and VOUN - for their different (often specialized) editing/sharing abilities (some quick and dirty, some not). I’d suggest reconsidering that because there’s no reason to use one standard app. I am trying to decide on one standard photo editing program for both Mac OS and iOS.

Pixelmator pro vs affinity photo 2018