Photomator tools and features

Photomator offers a range of powerful tools for adjusting colors, cropping, and enhancing image quality, among other features. You can access these tools from the toolbar, the More menu or by using shortcuts on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad with a connected keyboard.

Tools

Tool Description iPhone/iPad Shortcut Mac Shortcut

Tool	Description	iPhone/iPad Shortcut	Mac Shortcut
Auto Enhance	Auto Enhance lets you automatically improve color, contrast, and brightness of a photo.	`Command ⌘` + `M`	`Shift ⇧` + `Command ⌘` + `M`
Repair	Use the Repair tool to retouch your photos from subtly removing small imperfections to eliminating entire objects.	`R`	`R`
Crop	Use the Crop tool crop, rotate, straighten, adjust the perspective of photos and more.	`C`	`C`
Clone (Mac only)	The Clone tool lets you copy part of an image and paste it elsewhere using a brush.	n/a	`S`
Color Adjustments	Use the Color Adjustments tool to adjust the colors and contrast of a photo, and add sharpness, or other special photographic effects.	`A`	`A`
HDR	Turn HDR on or off to work with high dynamic range photos or use Smart HDR to convert regular images to HDR.	n/a	n/a
Match Colors	Match Colors allows you to match a photo's colors with another image from Photos, Files, or the Web.	n/a	n/a
Super Resolution	The Super Resolution tool uses machine learning to upscale photos, preserving and enhancing important details.	`Command ⌘` + `U`	`Command ⌘` + `U`
Denoise	Use the Denoise tool to remove camera noise and reduce JPEG compression artifacts, enhancing photo quality.	`Shift ⇧` + `Command ⌘` + `D`	`Shift ⇧` + `Command ⌘` + `D`
Deband (Mac only)	Deband improves image quality by eliminating color banding artefacts and preserving fine details.	n/a	`Option ⌥` + `Shift ⇧` + `Control ⌃` + `B`
Smart Deband	Smart Deband increases the color depth to 16 bits per channel to create even smoother gradients when removing color banding.	`Shift ⇧` + `Command ⌘` + `B`	`Shift ⇧` + `Command ⌘` + `B`

Auto Enhance

Auto Enhance lets you automatically improve color, contrast, and brightness of a photo.

Command ⌘ + M

Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + M

Repair

Use the Repair tool to retouch your photos from subtly removing small imperfections to eliminating entire objects.

R

Crop

Use the Crop tool crop, rotate, straighten, adjust the perspective of photos and more.

C

Clone (Mac only)

The Clone tool lets you copy part of an image and paste it elsewhere using a brush.

n/a

S

Color Adjustments

Use the Color Adjustments tool to adjust the colors and contrast of a photo, and add sharpness, or other special photographic effects.

A

HDR

Turn HDR on or off to work with high dynamic range photos or use Smart HDR to convert regular images to HDR.

n/a

Match Colors

Match Colors allows you to match a photo's colors with another image from Photos, Files, or the Web.

n/a

Super Resolution

The Super Resolution tool uses machine learning to upscale photos, preserving and enhancing important details.

Command ⌘ + U

Denoise

Use the Denoise tool to remove camera noise and reduce JPEG compression artifacts, enhancing photo quality.

Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + D

Deband (Mac only)

Deband improves image quality by eliminating color banding artefacts and preserving fine details.

n/a

Option ⌥ + Shift ⇧ + Control ⌃ + B

Smart Deband

Smart Deband increases the color depth to 16 bits per channel to create even smoother gradients when removing color banding.

Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + B

Filmstrip quick actions

In addition to letting you conveniently browse photos in the album or folder you're working in, the filmstrip also provides useful tools and features for quickly managing your photos. You can easily copy adjustments from one photo to another, apply your saved batch editing workflows, share, delete photos, and more.

To open the filmstrip quick actions menu, touch and hold an image thumbnail on your iPhone or iPad, or Control-click the thumbnail on your Mac, then choose any of these options:

Copy or paste adjustments: This lets you copy a combination of color adjustments from one photo to another. See the Copying and pasting color adjustments article to discover other ways you can use this feature.
Workflows: Shows your pinned batch editing workflows, allowing you to quickly apply a set of edits to your photo.
Favorite: Lets you add or remove the photo from your Favorites collection.
Duplicate: Creates a copy of your photo with all applied edits. You can create multiple copies of photos without consuming additional storage space on your device.
Revert to Original: Reverts all edits made to a photo.
Share: Lets you AirDrop the photo, send it via Messages or email, save it to your Photos library, or open in other apps.
Edit with Pixelmator Pro (Mac only): Send the photo for editing in Pixelmator Pro.
Delete: Moves the photo to Trash on your Mac, where it can still be recovered with its edits.

The Copy and Paste Adjustments feature currently works only with color adjustments applied to the base photo.

If your photo only has selective adjustments applied but has no adjustments on the base photo, the Color Adjustments Not Found message will appear when you copy adjustments.

Tools

Filmstrip quick actions

See also