The Creative Kit’s app(s) can easily be launched, like any other extension, from within Photos, and the rest is history. The award winning apps which function as standalones and as a Photoshop or Lightroom plugins or extension possess amazing, 21st century photo editing capabilities that perfectly complements Photos for Mac, and transforms it into a super photo editing powerhouse. Skylum’s Creative Kit features some of the most intuitive, powerful and efficient Photo’s extension available to Mac users.

User’s editing options and experience on Apple’s Photos can indeed be further enhanced or expanded by means of extensions. Skylum’s Creative Kit Extensions (Plugins) There’s indeed a whole lot more that one can get done on Photos for Mac when used with extensions. The somewhat limited user-friendly Mac photo editor, depending on the user’s skill level, when used with the appropriate software extensions, can become a far more powerful and effective package than one could ever imagine. One of such is its excellent compatibility with extensions. There are several other features that still make Photos for Mac indispensably a photo-editing-utility app. This feature is similar to Apple Aperture’s. The app also highlights a powerful organizing tool, the Smart Folders, that enables you have all their photos’ grouped together into an easy browsable album by means of keyword or tag with which the photos were previously saved. A feature that lets you decide what you’d rather use your several hundreds of gigabyte storage space for. You could also decide to have only one of your library synced to iCloud while the others remain device-bound or local. Photos somewhat limited capabilities notwithstanding, it features fantastic options like support for multiple photo libraries that enable you separate personal photos files from work photos.

Focus - blur, bokeh, tilt shift and lens effects.