5 steps from perfection

This is easily one of the most powerful & feature packed photo editors Ive ever found on a mobile device, & they update it often with lots of enhancements. It is missing some of the features the full Mac version has, but it is much more simple to use. And it has tons of features that Adobe leaves out of their mobile apps.

However, the Pixelmator developers still overlook some basic needs, which is baffling for an app that normally has incredible attention to detail....

1) The biggest missing feature by far is that there is no way to toggle between your current edits and the original version of the photo to track your progress.

This is a basic necessity of every photo editing app, and is hard to believe Pixelmator never thought it was important enough to include.

2) The painting tools need to have a permanent on screen shortcut for adjusting brush size & opacity, rather than making you tap through menus every time you need to adjust it.

3) The photo collage tool only has 6 templates available, and there is no way to adjust the layout options. So for example, if you want a grid of four photos all the exact same size, there is no way to do that.

Most apps offer dozens of templates, and you can adjust the dividers between photos to customize the stock layouts.

4) For more serious photo editors, a record feature to playback workflow edits would be massively helpful to show friends how Pixelmators tools helped transform the original photo into your finished version.

5) It needs a tool to alter the perspective of text. (i.e., text goes from small to large for a three dimensional perspective, like the text is going away from you)

With these 5 features added, this would be a 5 star app and would enable me to get rid of every other photo app out there.

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