When I was editing some night city shots RAW files that have a couple light signs in it that are overblown, when pulling highlights down, I can get quite a bit more out of the same image in Photoshop. I do not own PS myself but have tried it on a friends Mac. We just opened the image and didn't do anything else than pull the highlights down to see if there is a difference.
In PS one can get a better image out of it. When going down 90 or 100% on the highlights slider, the effect is quite a bit stronger on PS. In Photomator it is not possible to get the highlights down as in PS. Probably the same with shadows but I have not compared it.
Wondering if this is something that will be further improved in Photomator. As far as I remember there was an update last year that said it improved shadow and highlight recovery significantly. But looks like it is not quite on the level of PS.
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2023-11-03 15:01:05
2023-11-03 16:16:01
In Photomator try holding the option key it doubles the slider range.
2023-11-04 10:08:29
I can see that option key affects some sliders such as exposure or brightness as you say.
But it does not affect all sliders and also on highlights slider I can see no change and no added latitude.
Some other sliders like clearity or texture also do not seem to be affected by the option key.
2023-11-06 14:27:56
I also occasionally have trouble pulling as much texture out of light areas compared to what I've been able to do using another product (Darkroom, in my case).
This isn't a perfect comparison for a number of reasons, but here's part of a photo with a cloudy sky. In Photomator it's mostly an indistinct gray:
In Darkroom, the clouds have much more texture throughout. This is a result I've struggled to recreate in Photomator:
This isn't a perfect comparison for a number of reasons, but here's part of a photo with a cloudy sky. In Photomator it's mostly an indistinct gray:
In Darkroom, the clouds have much more texture throughout. This is a result I've struggled to recreate in Photomator:
2023-11-29 09:13:16
I have the same problem with Photomator
2023-12-05 16:42:51
Might be worth filling in the contact form to ask the pixelmator team if this is a known issue they are looking at or if not if they maybe could?