On the upside, Pixelmator Photo is not tied to Apple Photos. Pixelmator Photo works independently of the Apple Photos app, so it makes importing and editing images more long-winded but gives you more choice in where you keep your images. This feels like a clumsy workflow (it’s the same for Google Snapseed), but Pixelmator Photo uses its own file format to allow its reversible non-destructive editing, so this is presumable how it has to work. Instead, you have to open Pixelmator Photo, import the photo you want from Apple Photos, edit it, then save it back out to Apple Photos. But Pixelmator Photo doesn’t appear on the list of options. In an ideal world you might want to browse through your pictures in the Apple Photos app, choose one you want to edit and tap the ellipsis (…) button to choose the program to edit it with. If you want layers and selections, you need the Pixelmator app, sold separately. If you tap the tools icon, you can start making adjustments manually, with panels for Black & White, Fade, Lightness, Channel Mixer settings and many more – but with no selection or layers tools, all your adjustments will apply to the whole picture. The ML Crop option is a nice idea for those not confident about their own cropping/compositional skills, and the Crop screen also has Straighten and horizontal and vertical Perspective tools – that’s really useful for wonky travel shots and landmarks. The ML Crop tool will select an image composition automatically, and there are extremely useful perspective tools for straightening skyscrapers and other landmarks.
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