![]() As yet, there is no date for any release in Thailand. On Oct 16 and 23, the new iPhones will be available in 14 more countries, including Malaysia. Last weekend the new iPhone 6s went on sale in another 40 countries. The current (and expected) applications that work in this way show the huge potential for users that Photos has, as updated apps begin to work with it and Apple introduces more features. When Pixelmator is updated with extension, there should be full-scale editing capabilities available within Photos - no need to export first before making adjustments. Like the other new applications taking advantage of this new feature of OS X, it works well within Photos. It can be run as a stand-alone application, but there is little point. For example, I had particular success with white flour on bread and with white road signs. BeFunky Express is mainly intended for editing images of faces, although these tools work with other images. Tools include Auto Fix, Skin Smoothing, Skin Tone, Teeth Whitening, Eye Brightening and HDR (Shadow and Highlight adjustments). With Tonality and Intensify showing me how well extensions work in Photos, I went looking in the Mac App Store and found BeFunky Express, an app newly created specifically to take advantage of extensions. The same features are available in a Mac version of the software although the range of tools is larger and the screen size makes the application easier to work with. It creates a monochrome image from a photograph then allows the user to add colour back to the image in specific areas. I first used it on the iPhone, but Colour Strokes was later developed for the Mac as well. I particularly like Colour Strokes, which I have been using for a while now. As a note, tomorrow, six of MacPhun's Pro apps will be available in a Creative Kit bundle for $89.99 - Focus, FX Photo Studio, Intensify, Noiseless, Snapheal and Tonality. Several more of the apps from this developer, such as Colour Strokes and Focus 2, would work well were they to be updated in the same way and I am keeping my fingers crossed. This used to require the image to be available in the stand-alone application, but now these applications can be used from within Photos. Both also have a wide range of editing tools so that sophisticated editing is possible. In both Tonality and Intensify, sliders allow the effect to be tempered. Likewise, Intensify provides a wide selection of presets that transform images in several ways. This can now be done from Photos on the Mac. A series of adjustable presets, which are mainly monochrome, enables the user to produce some stunning images. I have used Tonality since it was released, also downloading the Pro version which has a plug-in for Aperture. ![]() Macphun has also released Noiseless and Snapheal (US$14.99 or 535 baht) with extensions. In the last week, I have been experimenting with the two extensions I had for Photos, Tonality and Intensify, both from the developer MacPhun. It is already available in a similar way as an editor in the version of Photos on iOS devices. Reliable sources last week reported that this is to be updated soon and will then be available as an extension in Photos. Pixelmator currently only works as a repair tool (along with Markup), for example in Mail. ![]() These are all shown in System Preferences - Extensions, in the following panels available: All, Actions, Finder, Photos, Share Menu and Today.Ĭurrently, All, which shows any third party extensions, has five items listed. I already have a number of extensions, most are from Apple, but a few have arrived from third party sources. This means expanding the functions of the operating system or applications that were used on Mac OS - before OS X. Now that OS X has been updated to El Capitan (version 10.11) I have been indulging myself with the new extensions for Photos that I mentioned last week. Pixelmator - currently a standalone graphics editor for the Mac. ![]()
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