Bump is like applying a convex magnifying glass to the section of the image where you click – what’s underneath will bulge.

For example, if you wanted to make a tree look like it’s bending in the wind then you just click and drag over it. Warp is like pushing a finger into wet paint. There’s a Reset button and also a Reset tool, that can be used to selectively undo what you’ve done by again clicking and dragging. This extends Pixelmator’s Warp, Bump, Pinch, and Twirl (left and right) tools to Apple’s image app.Īll the tools are brushes, so you first adjust the size and strength sliders, then click and drag on the image. Although not mentioned even in its App Store description, Pixelmator also includes a Distort plugin for Photos. Pixelmator has taken the Mac world by storm since its introduction some years ago, proving that Adobe Photoshop isn’t all there is when you need a powerful image-editing app. As such, it’s the quintessential Photos plugin. Loading up some snapshots from a trip to Rome, we got some surprisingly good results in our tests and were able to perk up otherwise underexposed or downright mundane shots.īeFunky Express is quick and easy to use, yet offers great results. HDR is perhaps intended for the likes of landscapes – or certainly photos containing some sky. The HDR tool aims to create faux high-definition images, which are typically made by merging several different exposures together. We found the effects both subtle and effective, with results almost as good as when we sat for hours poring over images using something like Photoshop. Once happy you’ll need to click the Apply button, at which point the effects are fully applied to the high-resolution image. The first four entries in the above list are brush-based tools, which is to say you draw over where you want the effect to be applied (teeth, cheeks, eyes etc), then adjust the various sliders to control the nature and intensity. There’s also an Auto Fix tool that attempts to judiciously apply all the tools on offer without your input. As such it offers five easy adjustment tools: Skin Smoothing, Skin Tone, Teeth Whiten, Eye Brighten, and HDR. This inexpensive tool is aimed mostly at the home user likely to be found mostly tweaking snapshots of people.

Mac photos project extensions