Pixelmator Pro update adds Light Leak effect and more

$29.99 for the app.... or I can just buy a crappy lens for $50

These filter apps which are creeping now into the desktop computer from the iPhones and Androids in this world are the death of creativity IMHO.
In the past picture editing was something where you had to work into it and in the end you were rewarded with skills and gorgeous pictures.
Now it's all bloated with a very simple filter apps where you can achieve results in no time.
For me it's very tempting to use Luminar 2018 where with a few clicks there is a nice result... at first sight...
The how and why you don't really care... with even more simple filter apps it's even more obvious that you are robbed from your creativity and are forced to do what other creative people in the development department of the software company intended.
So in the end we will see more and more pictures which were edited with less care in much less time an which will make serious work go under in the flood.
In the end it will go that way: why hiring a photographer when there is an app for that?
Photography?

that looks nice, i just wanted to buy this

windows 10 link anybody? o.O

Light leak... what a bloody useful option! certainly beats that pre-exposed film in its flexibility and saves boatloads of money.
Now, the next big thing to come: an airport x-ray plugin. That thing will be invaluable in making an impression of not only of being a real film photographer (who most likely listens to real vinyl records and eats kale), but also one who is a hardcore world traveler.

How about a filter that gives teenagers more pimples?

Lomography is fun!

I'm sure those that grew up only using digital cameras won't be as receptive as those growing up with Kodak Instamatics and Polaroids.

Analog idiosyncrasies/"imperfections" add a nostalgic characteristic reminiscent and endearing to film-originated photographers. I do hope youth can embrace that. And frankly, it's mostly youth that has embraced the Lomo movement.

Anyway, i think this is cool and hope is available for Windows PC.

Pixelmator Pro - now you too can emulate the masses without the embarrassment of putting a cheap lens on your camera..

Some great suggestions here. I want a roll film number filter that prints the frame number in a circle in the sky of each image. Like when your 120 film got x-rayed too many times.

When is the film flatness failure plugin going to come out? I mean how long do I have to wait for this.

In other news 3.M just released Scooch Digital Black Photo Tape at an introductory price of $43.33 per 10yd roll.

OK, so all-the-things-that-had-to-be-avoided-at-all-cost in the film era are somehow becoming a huge part of the modern “artistic vocabulary” and thus are (ineptly, often) replicated in software. I get it.

But one has to be very careful while replicating something as important as light leaks, and describe in detail what exactly is being replicated: there is a huge difference between the various kinds of uni and multi-directional light leaks due to the camera body leaking the light, and due to the film cassette/backing paper light leakage!

Looks like the "light leak" demand was higher than I believed. HOPEFULLY they are at work creating the "blurry back of the head at Disney" software.

I like it, it's yet another tool that people won't know how to use.

For all the animosity in these comments there are 100’s of influencers and so ial media celebrities making $100k posting similar images. It matters less what we think and more what gets clicks on Instagram.

I had the seals replaced on my old OM a few years back, specifically to eliminate this issue. Who knew I had the futuristic OM Pro

They still don't have a lens cap on filter....everyone has been asking for this and this update still doesn't have it. Fail!

What about some dead pixel and dust on sensor effects? Or a left my camera in manual mode effect.

Very good. I like the bit with pressing the O button for showing the original image. I would have went with that in the article headline, just to appeal to an even wider audience than just with the light leak thing.

So you have to pay $29 to screw up a picture.

Good solution! I used to drill holes into my Laeica M10-P to ge this effect. Now this saves me quite a bit of work.

Finally light leaks! I can now ditch Lightroom. I will use it to process the images from my Canon R pro bodies. Taking the card from the camera (note singular) and putting this into my MacBook Pro (using a pro dongle) I will look such a pro when I load it into this pro software.

Average light!

Who the hell adds a “light leak” effect to their photos!? I mean, come on now, seriously! 🤨

That's it!

Digital now has COMPLETELY replaced film...

what about the "dayham, I forgot to load the film in the camera effect"?

Maybe I should stop repairing all my film cameras that have light leaks?

I am the only one that thinks this should be called 'Pixelbator Pro'??

So now your photos can look like they were taken with a $50 camera instead of the $2000 camera you purchased... GENIUS!

Hey, Pixelmator. Remind me again why your glorified-instagram-filter software is more expensive than genuine-photoshop-competitor Affinity Photo?

when you don't know, F-itup, "art"

Was this made by canon? I have a few cameras already with this effect and they're all from the 70's.... Why only now???

I want a "Forgot to take off lens cap" effect.
All black!

Can confirm with factual certainty, that the world does not need more light leak effect software.

A step in the right direction, but I'm still anxiously awaiting the "botched B&W processing" effect, the "badly de-centered lens effect" and the "gear-head attempts to be a photographer effect".

Any product that calls itself "Pro" is by definition meant only for amateurs.

All these hipster filters basically destroy the perfect IQ we all pursuit with our shiny cameras lol.

Every bad image I've ever made was due to the Amateur Photographer effect I applied to my images.

where is the filter that simulates a bad lcd cracked with a distorted face selfie with awkward c0omposition ...and my personal favorite broken dot matrix printer
running out of one color filter is also proving popular

faded dry cleaner window posterfilter is a winner too

Oh... Finally!!!

Light leak was the feature keeping me from "upgrading" to Pixelmator.

don't think you're much of pro is you use Pixelmator pro in the first place

Oh now that's really "creative". Simulated light leaks are only the start. Next we'll have an "app" that simulates a soggy crumpled print that accidentally went through the washing machine. And some idiot will actually buy it.