Everyone is a photographer, with their smart phones and digital cameras, even music players and tablets take pictures nowadays – so it’s no wonder that there is a new craze surrounding photo apps that allow for the most basic options, like cropping, all the way to complex options like the removal of imperfections, or even people. Inpaint Pro is a desktop application that allows users to transform imperfect photos into perfection.
Affinity Photo has long been a top seller on the Mac App Store (although you can also buy direct from Serif), as it provides a really powerful selection of photo-editing tools for just under £50/$50. You are here: Home / Apple / Best Photo Editing Apps for Mac OS X by Robin C Last Updated On: January 8, 2015 Leave a Comment We capture our favorite moments using our Smartphone Camera or Digital Camera and then upload the photos to Facebook, Flickr, Google+ or store them privately in Cloud Storage services like Dropbox, iCloud and so on.
Overview
Getting started with the Inpaint app was rather confusing, which says a lot, being that photo retouching is something I typically do on a day-to-day basis using Photoshop. To get started, users open an image, which displays within the Inpaint photo editor window, which has a series of tools across the top, and left side. These tools are not foreign if you have ever used Photoshop, marker (similar to the healing brush tool), magic wand, lasso, polygonal lasso are the most easily recognized tools by avid Adobe Creative Suite users.
The tool that seemed to get the most use in the Inpaint program was the marker tool, this tool removes everything from wrinkles, all the way to people and buildings. The size of the marker can be adjusted depending on what you are trying to remove. If you don’t like the changes that were made, you can simply select the undo button. The biggest thing that seems like a no brainer now that I have used the program is once you use any of the tools, you must click the button that looks like the play button on a remote to process the changes.
Using the Inpaint marker tool is a relatively quick process, however the lasso, polygonal lasso and magic wand tools take longer to process. The major thing that seems to be lacking is basic photo enhancements options like brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, sharpen, etc. Inpaint seems to be for photos that are essentially perfect, aside from stray objects or people in the image. Things like unwanted people ruining a landscape, a date stamp, or scratches on old, scanned photos can be easily repaired using Inpaint.
While Inpaint makes it quite easy to remove unwanted objects from photos, it doesn’t seem to offer much else. Inpaint is not a one-stop shop program. Basic photo edits, aside from retouches, would most likely have to be done using a different program, being that there doesn’t seem to be photo enhancement tools available in the Inpaint program. With that said, Inpaint still offers users the great feature of removing unwanted items, which can be time consuming using programs like Photoshop, especially if you just want that person in the background removed from your vacation photo.
One last interesting option available using the Inpaint program, is the ability to clone things from other photos. Using the multiview option, users can select an item or person to clone from another photo into the selected photo. The cloning option makes placing a person or object into a photo relatively simple compared to the complex process in the other programs. Clone yourself into a family photo, or get silly by cloning multiple versions of yourself into a photo.
Verdict [rating: 3]
Overall, Inpaint is rather confusing to use initially, but like any new program or platform, it gets easier with time and practice. If you are a frequent traveler, take photos in busy places, or tend to have items in the background of an image that you would like to remove, this is the program for you.
Inpaint Pro is available in the Mac App Store for $19.99, there is also a free trial version available here.
Pros:
- Easy to remove unwanted items from photos
- Allows for basic photo/skin retouching
- Simple clone option
Cons:
- Processing changes can be a timely process
- Basic photo enhancement tools are not available
Photos capture the precious moments of our lives. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to take high-quality pictures on the first try – it’s not often that you actually want a random passerby or a misplaced finger to feature in your photos. And you know that good lighting would really enrich the colors in your pictures. And then there are the photographs that tend to fade and yellow with time. To fix these problems, you need Movavi Photo Editor for Mac – a simple program that’s equally good both for beginners and professionals.
Don’t waste your time trying to figure out how to use complicated desktop applications for photo processing. Download our easy-to-use photo editing software for Mac: it will enhance your images faster than many other image editing apps!
- Erase Unwanted Objects
- Enhance Image Quality
- Restore Old Photos
- Retouch Portraits
Erase Unwanted Objects with Photo Editor for Mac
Get Rid of Excess Stuff in Your Photos
No need to avoid shooting photos in crowded places. Take photographs wherever you want and then just remove unwanted objects, random people, trash, or bad graffiti from your digital images with Movavi’s photo software. The Object Removal tool uses great care to cover all those little flaws in just a couple of minutes!
Download Movavi Photo Editor and check out all the features of the program.
Enhance Image Quality
Make Your Photos Come Alive
Is overcast weather dulling down your photographs? Don’t panic! Mac Photo Editor will automatically amp up the brightness and contrast in your image at the touch of the Magic Enhance button. You can also change the settings manually to achieve the desired effect. See how the image adjustment works by dragging the slider under the picture.
Magic Enhance
Looking for a way to restore photos taken decades ago?
Movavi Photo Editor with its advanced image editing tools quickly removes fold lines, stains, and other small defects from old photographs that you’ve scanned. You can also automatically add color to your black-and-white photos. The program uses a smart fill algorithm to analyze and repair parts of the image that have suffered from aging. Just click the Restore button and wait for the image editor to do the photo processing for you!
Retouch portraits
Improve Your Look in an Instant
Professional photo retouching can be easy and fun. What’s more, it’s affordable with our user-friendly photo editor for Mac. Try new makeup or dye your hair. Remove skin blemishes or slim down your face. Get a Hollywood smile with the Teeth whitening tool. The only limit is your imagination!
Try All the Features of Movavi's picture editor for Mac OS
White Balance
Adjust the lighting in images. Make the photos in your library look natural.
Effects
Apply a range of creative and subtle filters to create different looks.
Text
Insert captions and titles, add decorative elements.
Sharpness & Details
Adjust clarity in blurred images and bring out textures.
Retouching
Remove blemishes, smooth out wrinkles, get rid of shine, and correct red-eye.
Crop, Rotate, Resize
Improve composition, straighten the horizon, shrink images for the Web.
Color Correction
Make your colors richer while keeping skin tones natural-looking.
Makeup
Airbrush digital eyeshadow, mascara, and lipstick onto your portraits.
Inserting
Combine images and image elements to make collages.
Noise Reduction
Use presets to reduce digital noise in low-light photos.
Reshaping
Alter face shapes and silhouettes, sculpt noses, enlarge eyes.
Change Out Backgrounds
Replace the background, make it transparent, or set any color as the new background.
Looking for a quick and easy way to edit pictures? Install Movavi Photo Editor on any Apple personal computer compatible with Mac OS versions 10.7–10.13, for example, OS X Lion, OS X Yosemite, OS X El Capitan, macOS Sierra. The app is so easy to learn that you don’t even have to know the basics about how to edit photos on Mac. You can get to work on your MacBook Pro or Mac mini right away.
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About
5.8.0
78.1 MB
29,95 €
System Requirements
Mac OS X® 10.7 or higher
64-bit Intel® processor
1280 × 768 screen resolution, 32-bit color
2 GB RAM
500 MB available hard disk space for installation, 1 GB for ongoing operations
Administrator permissions are required for installation
* Unfortunately, correct processing of large image files with dimensions greater than 6000×8000 pixels cannot be guaranteed.
Photo Editor
Photo Editor
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER
Edit your favorite photos and quickly organize images
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER
Edit your favorite photos and quickly organize images
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER + SLIDESHOW MAKER
Edit photos, organize images, and create great slideshows
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER + SLIDESHOW MAKER
Edit photos, organize images, and create great slideshows
Photo Editor
Photo Editor
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER
Edit your favorite photos and quickly organize images
Mac Pro Photo Editor
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER
Simple Photo Editor For Mac
Edit your favorite photos and quickly organize images
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER + SLIDESHOW MAKER
Edit photos, organize images, and create great slideshows
PHOTO EDITOR + PHOTO MANAGER + SLIDESHOW MAKER
Edit photos, organize images, and create great slideshows
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