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Pixea for Mac
Pixea is a modern image editor & media viewer for macOS, featuring a clean, minimal interface. Pixea works great with HEIC, JPEG XL, PSD, RAW, WEBP, MKV, MP4, and many other formats. Enjoy the all-new way to browse media folders, photo lib…
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Pixea version 8.2Mac App Store · macOS 11.0 or later
Pixea 8.2 features new adjustment tools, photo library file support, and other improvements.
New adjustment tools
- Lens correction
- Vignette
- Brilliance
- Vibrance
- Depth-based adjustments: brilliance, vibrance
- Improved highlights adjustment
Photo library file support
- .photolibrary and .migratedphotolibrary files support
- View and edit locally synced originals in photo libraries.
Other improvements
- Export to HEIF and AVIF fixes
- Liquid glass theme improvements
- Other bug fixes and improvements
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Pixea
Pixea is a modern image editor & media viewer for macOS, featuring a clean, minimal interface. Pixea works great with HEIC, JPEG XL, PSD, RAW, WEBP, MKV, MP4, and many other formats. Enjoy the all-new way to browse media folders, photo libraries, and archives. Search, filter, sort, or shuffle your media files, then enhance them with precise adjustments and intelligent tools. All in one streamlined app.
Explore your media with speed and clarity: • Open images, videos, and archives instantly • Search, filter, sort, or shuffle your library • Navigate seamlessly with keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures
Take full control over light, color, and detail: • Adjust exposure, contrast, hue, saturation, brightness, temperature, and tint • Apply LUT filters, tweak color curves, and adjust HSL per channel • Adjust focus and apply depth-based adjustments • Straighten the horizon and correct perspective with ease • Apply lens corrections • Remove unwanted objects, people, or defects with built-in intelligent tools • Upscale images 2× or 4× with intelligent detail enhancement
Work efficiently at scale: • Apply edits to multiple images at once • Convert formats in bulk • Optimize entire collections in seconds
Supported Image formats: JPEG, HEIC, GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG XL, AVIF, Photoshop (PSD), BMP, Fax images, macOS and Windows icons, SCV sequences, Radiance images, and Google's WebP. RAW formats: Leica DNG and RAW, Sony ARW, Olympus ORF, Minolta MRW, Nikon NEF, Fuji RAF, Panasonic RW2, Canon CR2, CR3 and CRW, Hasselblad 3FR. Sketch files (preview only). Photo library files, ZIP archives, CBZ comic books.
Video formats: MP4, MOV, A4V, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, VOB, RM, MKV.
Export formats: JPEG, JPEG-2000, JPEG XL, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF.
* Some features require Pixea Plus subscription.
What's New
Pixea 8.2 features new adjustment tools, photo library file support, and other improvements.
New adjustment tools • Lens correction • Vignette • Brilliance • Vibrance • Depth-based adjustments: brilliance, vibrance • Improved highlights adjustment
Photo library file support • .photolibrary and .migratedphotolibrary files support • View and edit locally synced originals in photo libraries.
Other improvements • Export to HEIF and AVIF fixes • Liquid glass theme improvements • Other bug fixes and improvements
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