CHANGE TOOLS PALETTE PIXELMATOR PRO PROFESSIONAL
So, Finn Beales is one of the professional photographers I mentioned above who I have a ton of professional respect for. I fully believe, after you’ve read through this section, you’ll agree that a photographer’s stylistic brand and color choices are not in jeopardy thanks to ML Match Colors. This whole section likely gets dicey, so I want to ensure I give credit where credit is due, and I want to ensure that the end result of “stealing” someone’s color does not actually happen. Using ML Match Colors to Match Someone Else’s Photos
After maybe a minute or two of experimentation, I came to this end result:Īs I mentioned above, ML Match Colors is explicitly designed to match colors - matching any other elements of exposure, saturation, hue, and more either has to be done manually or through other forms of Pixelmator Photo’s machine learning features. However, to get to my original end result, I had to jump into the color tools in Pixelmator Photo to dial back intensity, hue, and saturation of individual colors. In retrospect, it’s obvious: the colors are properly matched. Here’s the result:īut upon further inspection, Pixelmator Photo actually performed great work in matching the colors in these two photos. And since I originally came into this thinking ML Match Colors would also match saturation, hue, intensity, and exposure all at once, well, I was originally disappointed. In general, if an app can or can’t deliver on a promise, it’s usually due to improper expectations. Evidently, I’ve heavily edited this photo, so I exported a copy of the original photo and a copy of the edited photo from Lightroom to my camera roll.įrom there, I opened the original raw photo in Pixelmator Photo, dragged an instance of Photos into Split View, and dragged my edited into Pixelmator Photo to match the color palettes. To test the power of ML Match Colors, I used a single photo of my own from a few years ago. Clearly, these two photos are very, very different. The original photo on the left and my personal edits on the right. At first blush, ML Match Colors seems best designed for applying a relatively close color palette to all of your photos in a set. This is the method that I expect the Pixelmator team both wants and expects customers to implement when using ML Match Colors. Using ML Match Colors to Match Your Own Photos
ML Match Colors handles one specific variable: color. It promises to use all the powers of the iPad.īut does it promise the power of stealing your favorite photographers’ color palettes? Will it make your photos look as good as your favorite photographers’ photos?Īs is always the case in photography, there are a multitude of variables at play. ML Match Colors is wonderfully implemented, quickly performed, and easy to use.
CHANGE TOOLS PALETTE PIXELMATOR PRO UPDATE
Pixelmator Photo’s latest update brought the power of Pixelmator Pro’s ML Match Colors from the Mac to the iPad, promising the ability to match the color palettes between sets of photos. Work with prime lenses, learn to position your body and camera in the right spot, and ensure all the pieces of the puzzle fit into your photograph beautifully.Ĭolor is just the icing on top of the composition cake, and everyone likes different brands of icing, right?
I think the prevailing advice to improve your abilities as a photographer is to focus on composition. Their compositions are great - often, near perfect - and their colors are their own. I’ve developed a bit of a list for the second step - photographers like Kate Holstein, Sam Nute, Finn Beales, Dan Tom, and more are stunningly skilled and worthy of emulation. When gear and kit delusions subside, the drive to emulate your favorite photographers rises.Īnd finally, your own skill set not only grows over time, it also becomes the main source of your own inspiration over time. The inspiration derived from other photographers takes essentially an inverse effect as gear and kit do. This inspiration declines steadily over time, but rears its ugly head on occasion. Here, photography gear and kit starts out as the ultimate source of inspiration. The timeline for many a photographer - at least, this was the case for me - can be outlined somewhat as per the graph below:
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