While it is nice having more feature-heavy photo applications on my iPad, most of the time, I just want to fine-tune photos and share them quickly. Pixelmator Photo is an app I have found myself gravitating to when I want to edit and adjust photos on the go with minimal fuss. However, your mileage may vary, so I recommend testing it out for yourself.

This is to be expected of AI, and while I applaud Pixelmator Team for implementing such unique functionality into the app, it's not something that I personally utilize regularly. Its Machine Learning artificial intelligence features are pretty innovative and can provide some really nice results, but other times can render some undesired output. If you're a photographer who needs to do fine-detailed photo editing, Pixelmator Photo may not be the software for you. While it does have nice options for levels, curves, hue, saturation, contrast, built-in presets, etc., sometimes I want more options than what Pixelmator Photo has to offer. It's not trying to be an application for painting or drawing, which is what Pixelmator is for, and it doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of Affinity Photo for iPad. Pixelmator Photo is primarily focused on editing and adjusting photos nondestructively.

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