Photomator update brings 5x faster file browsing and 2x smaller sidecar files

[Samanta]

The latest Photomator update introduces major improvements to the Files browser performance. Now, when you're browsing photos on your Mac, the thumbnails will load up to 5x faster!

The update also brings significant optimizations for sidecar file sizes across all devices, with storage-demanding edits now requiring only half the usual storage space.

Learn more about the update in this blog post.

[Ken Haley]

So pleased that you’re continuing to work on improving the performance of the app and I would really appreciate an update of your roadmap for the additional features you announced when the app was launched, e.g. video editing, watermarking etc.

[Jordan Langley]

Ok, but when are you going to improve Super Resolution? It's behind the competition and it doesn't actually improve quality, especially with noise and text. Pixelmator Pro and Photomator are falling behind the competition with outdated AI features, lack of AI features found in the competition, lack of generative AI, and many other missing features. Please stop playing it safe and make these apps great again, so people aren't tempted to go back to Adobe, which sucks because they're a greedy corporation

[mauro.delromano]

…but not fixed thumbnails problem.

[short_no_spaces]

Additionally, when making simple color adjustments in the Photos browser, the edits will now be saved directly to the photo.

can you explain this a bit more?

* is this still non-destructive?
* how will this affect photos opened up in other apps?

[Nadeem]

can you explain this a bit more?

* is this still non-destructive?
* how will this affect photos opened up in other apps?

When using Photomator via Apple Photos (rather than via files browser) edits will still be non-destructive. It's basically saving your edits to the Apple Photos catalog.

If you open those photos in Apple Photos or do something like share the image to instagram on your phone it will share the edited image. If you were to open the image in say Darkroom, you won't see the edited image because editing apps can't read edits from other apps (photomator can't read and apply edits from Lightroom, etc.)

[Martin Chalifoux]

can you explain this a bit more?

* is this still non-destructive?
* how will this affect photos opened up in other apps?

It means that if you work with the Photos library (and not the file browser), the smaller edits are now saved directly as extension data in the photo library itself, rather than a sidecar file. However larger edit that necessitate a new bitmap (like Denoise, super resolution, etc) will still create a sidecar file because this large pieces of data cannot be saved tot the Apple Photos library.

[BarbaraKnight]

When using Photomator via Apple Photos (rather than via files browser) edits will still be non-destructive. It's basically saving your edits to the Apple Photos catalog.

If you open those photos in Apple Photos or do something like share the image to instagram on your phone it will share the edited image. If you were to open the image in say Darkroom, you won't see the edited image because editing apps can't read edits from other apps (photomator can't read and apply edits from Lightroom, etc.)

Thanks for the info, I will keep it in my mind.