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Created for urban photography, these presets improve the look of shots taken in cities dominated by buildings, manmade structures, and urban life in general. Designed for shots taken in low light, this collection works especially well with photos of cities taken at night.
The presets bring out details in the highlights and add tasteful color tints for an artistic finishing touch. This group contains all the presets from Pixelmator Pro, including presets for creating black and white photos, vintage looks, and eye-catching landscape shots.
These presets are especially playful and artistic and can work great with a variety of different photography styles. Save any combination of color adjustments as a custom preset to quickly apply them to any of your photos and even share presets with others.
Pixelmator Photo was designed exclusively for iPhone and iPad, featuring a gorgeous native design and taking full advantage of iOS technologies like Metal, Core ML, and Core Image to deliver blazingly fast editing, zooming, and scrolling, even in large images.
Overview What's New. Pixelmator Photo for iPhone is here. Tools powered by machine learning. Pixelmator Pro runs natively on Macs powered by the Apple M1 chip, taking full advantage of its incredible performance. Using Metal, Pixelmator Pro harnesses the full graphics processing power of every Mac.
The groundbreaking machine learning features in Pixelmator Pro are integrated using Core ML, which brings the best possible ML processing performance on Mac. Swift is a modern programming language built for efficiency, reliability, and top-notch performance.
Core Image greatly speeds up processing images, enabling blazing fast, nondestructive editing. What's New in Pixelmator Pro 2. Learn more Redesigned Layers Sidebar The Layers sidebar has been redesigned with a fresh new look and a range of usability improvements. Color Adjustments and Effects Layers Nondestructively change the look of entire layered compositions more quickly and easily than ever. Edit the colors in your photos in any way you want. Built-in synth Obsidian is among the best on iOS, and is hugely versatile in the noises it can create.
Otherwise, this usable, feature-rich music production environment is a must-have for iPad musicians. For free, there are limitations: an hour of recording, ten-minute projects and three tracks. Go Pro and Ferrite gives desktop editors a run for their money: 32 tracks, projects up to a day long, and recording time limited only by the space on your iPad.
The pro version adds further handy tools for improving recordings, such as effects, auto-leveling, MP3 chapters and dead air removal, bt the most impressive thing is how this all comes together. Virtual cabling might not sound sexy, but it hugely boosts creative potential. You can send live audio or MIDI data between apps and through effects, mix the various channels, and then send the entire output to the likes of GarageBand. Much of these features are new to Audiobus 3, and this latest update also adds Audio Unit support, enabling you to open some synths and effects directly in the app.
With support for over iOS products in all, Audiobus 3 is an essential buy for anyone serious about creating music on an iPad. Fortunately, Poison opens in new tab is ideal for all such sets of circumstances. The moody black and red graphic design is very s, but it's Poison's sounds that hurl you back to the halcyon days of electronic music. Aficionados of The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Orbital will be overjoyed at the familiar and brilliant sounds you can conjure up simply by selecting presets and prodding a few keys.
And if you're not satisfied by the creator's frankly awesome sound design smarts in which case, we glare at you with the menace of a thousand Keith Flints , all manner of sliders and dials enable you to create your own wall-wobbling bass and ear-searing leads. There are iPad synths that have more ambition, and many are more authentic to classic hardware; but few are more fun. This music app is inspired by layered composition techniques used in some classical music. You tap out notes on a piano roll, and can then have up to four playheads simultaneously interpret your notes, each using unique speeds, directions and transpositions.
For the amateur, Fugue Machine opens in new tab is intuitive and mesmerising, not least because of how easy it is to create something that sounds gorgeous. For pros, it's a must-have, not least due to MIDI output support for driving external software. It took us mere seconds to have Fugue Machine working with Animoog's voices, and the result ruined our productivity for an entire morning.
Unless you count composing beautiful music when you should be doing something else as 'being productive'. In which case, we salute you. Korg Gadget opens in new tab bills itself as the "ultimate mobile synth collection on your iPad" and it's hard to argue. You get well over a dozen varied synths, ranging from drum machines through to ear-splitting electro monsters, and an intuitive piano roll for laying down notes. This is a more expensive app than most, but if you're a keen electronic-music-oriented songwriter with an iPad, it's hard to find a product that's better value.
Our favorite iPad apps for writing, email, editing PDFs, spreadsheets, coding and file management. Specifically, you move your lips from side to side to turn the page, or wink in a somewhat exaggerated manner. Smartly, the app is configurable. You can invert the control direction and adjust the turn threshold and time between page turns.
The app can pull in events from your Apple calendar data, and augment them with imagery, links, and PDFs. A task-based to-do list is included, along with a project manager, for grouping complex requirements by topic. But the flip-side of that is gaining access to a lot more information at once. Textastic opens in new tab is a text editor for coders. When using just an iPad, the custom keyboard row provides fast access to a range of characters. Fonts can be customized, and new themes selected.
The built-in file transfer manager enables you to access documents stored remotely; and although Textastic cannot be used as a Files location, you can get at local content via On My iPad.
Want to go old school? Try printing off your code on paper. Cardhop opens in new tab reimagines the Contacts app — in a manner that makes it far more usable and useful. It uses existing iCloud data and can integrate other address books , but rethinks how you get to data and actions. A powerful search field utilizes natural language. When browsing, notes are always accessible — handy if you use that field.
Every detail feels considered and polished. Top stuff. Memento: Modern Reminders opens in new tab is an alternative to the Apple Reminders app. It uses the same database, meaning you can at any point switch between the two apps; the main reason for splashing out some cash on Memento is speed — the app just makes it much easier to do stuff.
For example, when creating or editing a reminder, a smart keyboard row gives you speedy access to time and location alerts. Pages can be rearranged by drag-and-drop, and you can add or extract pages with a few taps. Adding pages from another document sadly remains beyond the app, but you can merge two PDFs in its file manager.
As a reader, PDF Expert fares well, ably dealing with large PDFs, and the text-to-speech mode can read documents at a speed of your choosing. Similarly, the app makes short work of annotations, document signing, and outline editing. Elsewhere, you get an optional live character count, iCloud sync, and a robust Markdown preview. On the desktop, Scrivener opens in new tab is widely acclaimed as the writer's tool of choice. The feature-rich app provides all kinds of ways to write, even incorporating research documents directly into projects.
Everything's always within reach, and your work can constantly be rethought, reorganised, and reworked. On iPad, Scrivener is, astonishingly, almost identical to its desktop cousin. Bar some simplification regarding view and export options, it's essentially the same app.
You get a powerful 'binder' sidebar for organizing notes and documents, while the main view area enables you to write and structure text, or to work with index cards on a cork board.
There's even an internal 'Split View', for simultaneously smashing out a screenplay while peering at research. LumaFusion opens in new tab plugs a Final Cut Pro-shaped gap in the mobile app ecosystem, providing desktop-quality video editing on your iPad. The interface on iPad is flexible and fluid, making it a cinch to edit 4K footage on the go. The app is packed with audio and visual effects, along with a robust titler.
It understands modern pro workflows, with version 3 adding support for third-party plug-ins, ProRes and direct editing from external USB-C drives. The last of those is vital with the increasing size of media files and the inability to expand internal iPad storage. In all, LumaFusion is superb and has a bargain price-tag for a desktop-grade product. Halide opens in new tab has long been known as a first-rate iPhone camera app.
The design has been rethought for the bigger screen, placing key controls near to your thumbs. A manual focus strip sits along the bottom edge, but with a large swipe area. An optional Pro View shrinks the viewfinder to sit within your field of vision. Pixelmator Photo opens in new tab is an iPad app designed to make your photos better. Its machine learning button, trained on 20 million pro photos, corrects lighting, exposure and shadows with a tap.
The results are pleasing and natural compared to the over-saturated fake-looking fare produced by rival apps. Film-like filters, together with a sidebar of buttons and sliders, let you unlock your creative and experimental side, and the tools within the sidebar are befitting of pricey desktop-grade software. But here, too, efficiency is key. Batch editing lets you edit an entire photoshoot with just a few taps.
And pictures can be resized during export. Darkroom opens in new tab is a photo editor for iPad. Open the app and it immediately presents your existing images. Tap a tool and a sidebar slides in, providing fast access to a superb range of tools for cropping and making adjustments. Throw some IAP at Darkroom, and these expand into even more professional territory by way of curves and color-correction tools.
Glitch Art Studio opens in new tab is an effects app that aims to make even dull photos and videos look interesting. The filters are based around glitches and animated distortion, and can be edited to the point you can barely tell what the subject was. On iPad, the larger canvas lets you fully appreciate the effects on offer — which are deeply impressive. VideoGrade opens in new tab is a color-grading app for video, giving you a taste of Hollywood on your iPad.
On launch, it finds all your videos. Select one and tools are displayed at the right-hand side of the screen. Open a menu, drag a slider, and changes are made instantly.
Any tool used gets a handy green dot next to its name, helping you keep track of complex adjustments. Filters color changes, levels, pixelation and so on are applied live, and a single tap fires up a full preview. Combinations of settings can be saved for later reuse. Retrospecs opens in new tab is a photo filter app that revels in the history of computing and gaming. Rather than turning any photo or image into a tiny Picasso with a tap, it instead reimagines whatever you load as if it was on the screen of a Game Boy, Apple Mac or C For properly authentic retro output, you can edit dither modes, add glitch animations, tweak CRT effects and more.
Typorama opens in new tab is about adding text to your photos — or creating typographic designs from scratch — with a minimum of effort. Other apps in this space let you select fonts, but Typorama has you select designs. Enter some text, tap a design style, and what you typed is instantly transformed.
You can add multiple type layers, and apply shadows and gradient effects to each one. The live filters and liquify tools are particularly impressive, responding to edits in real time. Unlike most competing apps, this one has many settings for adjusting properties, such as vignettes, stroke width, hatching angle, and color saturation.
The iPad may not be an ideal device for shooting photos, but its large screen makes it pretty great for editing them. And Mextures opens in new tab is perhaps the finest app around for anyone wanting to infuse their digital snaps with character by way of textures, grunge, and gradients. The editing process is entirely non-destructive, with you building up effects by adding layers. On launch, the app helpfully rifles through your albums, making it easy to find your videos.
Load one and you get access to a whopping 13 colour-grading and repair tools. Despite the evident power VideoGrade offers, the interface is remarkably straightforward.
Select a tool such as Vibrance, Brightness or Tint , choose a setting, and drag to make a change. Drag up before moving your finger left or right to make subtler adjustments. Smartly, any tool already used gets a little green dash beneath, and you can go back and change or remove edits at any point. All filters are applied live to the currently shown frame, and you can also tap a button to view a preview of how your entire exported video will look.
Want to compare your edit with the original video? Horizontal and vertical split-views are available at the tap of a button. Usefully, favorite filter combinations can be stored and reused, and videos can be queued rather than laboriously rendered individually.
Apple's Photos app has editing capabilities, but they're not terribly exciting — especially when compared to Snapseed opens in new tab. Here, you select from a number of from a number of tools and filters, and proceed to pinch and swipe your way to a transformed image. You get all the basics - cropping, rotation, healing brushes, and the like — but the filters are where you can get really creative.
There are blurs, photographic effects, and more extreme options like 'grunge' and 'grainy film', which can add plenty of atmosphere to your photographs.
The vast majority of effects are tweakable, mostly by dragging up and down on the canvas to select a parameter and then horizontally to adjust its strength. Brilliantly, the app records applied effects as separate layers, and each remains editable until you decide to save your image and work on something else.
Combinations of edits can be saved as custom filters you can subsequently apply to more images with a tap. Our favorite iPad apps for being productive with notes, to-dos, reminders, mind-mapping, calendars and calculators. Dashkit opens in new tab comes across like a spiritual successor to the dearly departed classic Status Board. But Dashkit neatly keeps modules contained, they are simple to rearrange and re-edit, and you can have as many dashboards as you choose.
It all feels very coherent and solid. Reeder 5 opens in new tab aims to simplify and consolidate online reading. You can use the app to subscribe to website RSS feeds, thereby ensuring you never miss a headline from favorite sources.
But also, you can send individual articles to Reeder from Safari to read later at your convenience. The reading view itself is primarily concerned with efficiency. Rather than the original web page, you just get its content, and text settings can be adjusted to suit your needs.
Should you wish to make reading more mindful, you can opt to activate Bionic Reading opens in new tab. With support for a range of third-party RSS and read-later services, Reeder 5 is a beautifully designed and carefully considered one-stop-shop for all your online reading needs. GoodLinks opens in new tab is a read-later service. One of the cool things about Evernote is that you can record audio while sketching, meaning that you can work as you listen.
But the fun doesn't stop there, the Evernote app also offers automatic palm rejection, as well as pressure sensitivity, meaning that you can really fill your notes with expressive lines strokes. LiquidText is the perfect app for reading and annotating. LiquidText prides itself on its ability to support active reading, which means that you can highlight sections of what you're reading to come back to later, or collapse parts and sections of the document so you can refer to different parts at once.
Again, having the Apple Pencil will benefit you greatly when it comes to using these iPad Pro apps. The Apple Pencil will make it faster to use the app with its pressure and tilt sensitivity features, making LiquidText feel similar to the real thing.
And if you've bagged yourself the Apple Pencil 2 then you can also use LiquidText's adjustable double-tap compatibility. Adobe's Illustrator CC is one of the industry-standard programmes for digital art, so it stands to reason that the vector art iPad Pro app is a great addition for the Apple Pencil, allowing you to design on the go with your Apple device. We tried it out it in our Illustrator for iPad review and found, though it is a streamlined version, it still works brilliantly as a standalone program note: we tested a full version of Illustrator for iPad on the inch iPad Pro M1, , using an Apple Pencil 2.
We especially love how the Apple Pencil works seamlessly with the software and the fact it is way more accessible and simple to navigate than the desktop version.
Illustrator for iPad lets you create lines, shapes, type, gradients, and effects, and you can use your Apple Pencil to merge and cut graphics with quick gestures, removing unwanted areas. You can add effects such as point gradients, radial repeats, patterns, and symmetry, and invite others to edit your projects, too.
There are over 18, fonts, as well as seamless cloud integration so you can work across your Creative Cloud apps. There's also a large community accessible via live streams on the app, including tutorials and inspirations from creative professionals. For the best current prices on an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which includes Illustrator in all its versions, see the details below. One of the best iPad Pro apps for digital painting, Inspire Pro offers a surprisingly realistic art experience with an impressive feature set that can deliver truly professional results.
With mediums such as oil, chalk, pastels and paint, the app offers multiple blending options including blending paint with the dry brush , which are based on painting using real materials. The software is intuitive, and the Apple Pencil works with it like a dream. Rendering time is super-fast, and the neat Canvas Playback feature lets you watch your process afterwards, stroke by stroke. Astropad was built by former Apple engineers with the objective of turning the iPad Pro into a graphics tablet for the Mac.
When we tested Astropad see our Astropad 2. The result gives you the high-end experience of a Wacom pen display without actually having to buy a Wacom tablet , and you can connect it to your Mac wirelessly or via USB. Adobe's drawing app, Fresco, mimics other fine art drawing apps, bringing a natural painting and drawing experience to the iPad.
It has a lot of strong features, including brilliant brush capability, an intuitive interface and super-smooth running, although when we tested it we found it does fall short in other areas and needs some depth to be added to make it truly great see our Adobe Fresco review. Its full integration with the Apple Pencil combined with its powerful brush features plus the ability to invite others to edit make it one of the best iPad Pro apps around, though. See our full for more details.
Procreate is the king of iPad Pro natural media apps, and the addition of the Apple Pencil offers a wonderfully fluid analogue-like experience. In part, this is due to the Apple Pencil's fine tip, its low latency and double-speed sampling rate, and in part it's because its palm rejection is nearly flawless. But all the technical stuff fades into the background when you experience the joy of sketching with a 6B pencil, turning it flat to block in big areas of shade, or playing about with paints.
When we tested Procreate 5. Find out more about those, and the other remarkable updates, in our Procreate 5. Photoshop for iPad is included with all Creative Cloud opens in new tab subscriptions and can be downloaded from the App Store. While we're including it in our list of the best iPad Pro Apps for Apple Pencil, note that it's designed as a complementary companion for the desktop version of the photo-editing software, and it can't replace it.
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