Pixelmator does have controls to change canvas size, but that seems too annoying to change each time. The drawback is that the canvas size is set by the very first image you import, so if I start off by editing 8 Megapixel shots (from my iPhone 5S), all of the 24 MP shots from my Sony A6000 will be cropped to 8 MP by default. The easy answer is to keep a template PXM file and import photos as layers while the file is open. That’s a recipe for a crowded iCloud Drive. I don’t want to create a PXM file each time I edit a photo within Pixelmator. However, because importing a photo into Pixelmator from the home screen generates a Pixelmator (.pxm) file, this could get messy quickly. I don’t like fiddling too much with a photo because I’d rather be out taking more shots, but for the times when I really want to amp up a shot, I’ll throw it into Pixelmator.
Thankfully, Photos’ built-in editing tools are enough for my needs most of the time. I’m awaiting updates to photo editing apps before I can tell if extensions are still as limited on iOS 9. It wasn’t - and still isn’t - widely documented that extensions are heavily limited by available memory, and pictures edited with a photo extension will lower the output resolution to 2 or 3 Megapixels. Unfortunately, these extensions proved to be a disappointment. Photo Extensions in iOS 8 were a promising solution: they’d provide me with the advanced tools of third-party apps (like VSCO) right within the comfortable UI of the Photos app. The Photos app was much improved in iOS 7, but to this day it still lacks advanced tools, like sharpening, detail, or tinting sliders. Apps like Pixelmator and VSCO Cam could always import photos before, but duplicates were always the issue. This change to Pixelmator is great because it allows third party apps to output full-resolution changes to my photos, without having to deal with any duplicates. If I decide tomorrow that I don’t like my changes, I can edit that picture within the Photos app and tap the “Revert” button to go right back to the original. What’s more, these changes are non-destructive and completely reversible from within the Photos app. Pixelmator 2.1 changes things around by letting me save edits to the existing photo in my library. I’d then have two such photos in my iCloud Photo Library - the original and the edited version. Previously, opening one of my photos within Pixelmator would create a copy within the app, and saving that photo to my camera roll would create another copy. However, the larger change to my workflow comes in the form of the “Save to Photos” feature. Once the WordPress app is updated to support iOS 9 multitasking, I can see myself running WordPress right alongside Pixelmator as I finish up longer reviews. On the surface, this is already enough to change the way you use Pixelmator on an iPad Air 2. Pixelmator 2.1 includes a few housekeeping changes: iOS 9 support with bona fide Slide Over and Split View.
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