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Photomator for Mac

Enhance colors, crop, upscale.

$99.99
In English
Version 3.2

Photomator overview

Photomator is a powerful yet easy-to-use photo editor with over 5,000 five-star ratings.

Photomator is a photo editing powerhouse, offering incredible tools for enhancing, retouching, and managing your photos. It includes an extensive collection of cutting-edge color adjustments, automatic selections powered by AI, powerful batch editing features, Clone and Repair tools for removing unwanted objects, and much more. Simply put, it has everything you need to make every shot your best.

The ultimate photo editing experience
  • Adjust colors and lighting using a collection of powerful, nondestructive color adjustments
  • Automatically make precise subject, sky, and background selections in photos using AI
  • Add gradient masks, make color range selections, or simply paint over the areas you want to adjust using a brush
  • Seamlessly clone or remove unwanted objects using state-of-the-art retouching tools
  • Easily copy and paste edits between photos or batch edit entire photoshoots at a time
  • Crop, straighten, and change the perspective of photos with a powerful and easy-to-use Crop tool
  • Quickly change the look of photos using an extensive collection of presets, designed for landscape, black and white, and other photography styles
Tools powered by AI
  • Automatically enhance shots using a machine learning algorithm trained on 20 million pro photos, or fine-tune individual adjustments, like White Balance, Selective Color, or Color Balance with a single click
  • Magically increase the resolution of photos while keeping them detailed and sharp
  • Remove camera noise and image compression artifacts with the Core ML-powered Denoise feature
  • Instantly improve the quality of photos by removing color banding and increasing color depth with AI-powered Smart Deband feature
  • Copy the look of any photo to another using the incredible color-matching feature
  • Intelligently crop photos using machine learning-powered auto-cropping
State-of-the-art color adjustments
  • Enjoy powerful tools for effortlessly adjusting the temperature, tint, exposure, contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, and vibrance in your photos
  • Recover incredible amounts of detail in the highlights and shadows of photos
  • Magically enhance fine details and structure in photos using powerful Clarity and Texture adjustments, or adjust textures in the highlights, midtones, and shadows separately
  • Selectively edit individual color ranges with Selective Color, or improve the balance of colors in the shadows, midtones, and highlights with Color Balance
  • Adjust lighting and colors with full precision using Levels and Curves adjustments
  • Mix the balance of the red, green, and blue color channels to create intense color effects in your images
  • Replace any color with any other using the Replace Color adjustment
  • Create beautiful black and whites even from your color photos
  • Use a range of additional adjustments, like Sharpen, Fade, Grain, Color Monochrome, Sepia, and Invert to make your photos stand out
  • Instantly change the look of photos with LUTs or export custom LUTs to use in other apps
RAW editing made simple
  • Open and edit over 650 RAW image formats, including Apple ProRAW and compressed Fujifilm RAWs
  • Edit RAW photos as easily as photos in other formats using all the nondestructive tools, including Repair and Clone tools
  • Easily batch-edit RAW photos together with photos in other formats
Compatibility
  • Automatically sync every change back to your Photos library
  • With the support for iCloud Drive, enjoy seamless edit syncing across Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Photomator is built from the ground up for Mac and integrates seamlessly with macOS Ventura. It uses powerful Apple technologies like Metal, Core ML, and Core Image to deliver staggeringly fast performance, even when editing large RAW photos or batch editing multiple images at a time.

What’s new in version 3.2

Photomator 3.2 brings full HDR support, letting you enjoy outstanding contrast and true-to-life colors in photos, including those taken with iPhone, and introduces an advanced Smart HDR feature for effortlessly converting SDR photos to HDR.

Full HDR Support
  • Unlock all-new creative workflows with full support for opening, editing, and sharing HDR photos, including photos taken with iPhone.
  • The cutting-edge Smart HDR feature lets you convert SDR photos HDR and take advantage of HDR editing capabilities with any photo.
  • Adjust colors, make selections, and use all other editing tools, including Repair, Denoise, and Super Resolution, with HDR photos, just as you would with any other photos.
  • The advanced Levels and Curves adjustments in Photomator have received major updates to support the full HDR range, letting you edit HDR photos without clipping.
  • HDR edits are seamlessly synchronized with the Photos app, making it effortless to share stunning HDR photos with your family, friends, or clients.
  • Open ISO HDR formats like HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, PNG, and TIFF, as well as other HDR formats, such as OpenEXR, Radiance HDR, and 32-bit TIFFs from Photoshop and Lightroom.
  • Effortlessly work with RAW or ProRAW photos in HDR.
  • When sharing HDR photos, export them in formats specifically designed to preserve HDR, such as HDR HEIC, HDR AVIF, HDR PNG, HDR JPEG, HDR Video Still Image, and OpenEXR.
  • In Photomator settings, you can select to always load photos in HDR, with the option to revert to SDR editing at any time.
  • When you choose to always load HDR content, the HDR button will appear in the Photomator toolbar, letting you selectively enable or disable HDR in any photo.
  • To work with HDR content in Photomator, your device must be on macOS 14 Sonoma and equipped with a compatible display, preferably an XDR display.
Support for macOS 14 Sonoma
  • Photomator is now fully compatible with and works great on macOS 14 Sonoma.
  • The enhanced Select Subject algorithm now offers faster and more precise subject selection in photos when working with macOS Sonoma.
  • Photomator now lets you open JPEG XL files on devices operating with macOS Sonoma.
Other Improvements
  • Thanks to improved color processing in RAW images, you can now recover even more detail in the highlights of RAW photos.
  • With the addition of AVIF export support, Photomator now offers full compatibility with the AVIF file format.

Photomator for Mac

$99.99
In English
Version 3.2
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Dec 5 2023
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Dec 5 2023
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Version: 3.2
Affinity Photo is $30 cheaper than this and just as good, if not better.
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