inPixio Photo Studio 12 Review: Is It Any Good?

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InPixio photo editor for beginners

In this inPixio Photo Studio 12 review I test the software first-hand to tell you all about its features, pricing, use cases, and more.

The tool is currently gaining a lot of attention, but does it live up to its hype? You’ll find the answer in this piece.

Features

inPixio Photo Studio 12 gives you photo editing features suitable for both photography and graphics professionals. Let’s look at them one by one:

1. Photomontage

The Photomontage feature on inPixio Photo Studio 12 allows you to put together several photos and create unique graphics with them.

You get a rich template library that you can explore to create personalized photomontages for different kinds of graphic designs.

photomontage

Furthermore, you can use this tool to generate a family portrait from individual photo cutouts. This feature offers every basic and advanced design capability to revamp an image or a set of images.

2. Erase Objects

This tool makes it possible to erase any selected object or person from a shot. This feature makes use of artificial intelligence to reconstruct the area behind the removed object.

Erase object

You can also use it to erase blemishes and reduce wrinkles. The tool can also remove stamps, texts, and even logos from images. Additionally, it does a good job of fixing old photos by removing scratches and stains.

3. Background Eraser

inPixio Photo Studio 12 offers an excellent tool that lets you remove backgrounds in just one click. 

Background eraser

What’s more interesting is that you can remove the background of any photo and introduce an entirely new one. You can select from a library of high-quality photo backgrounds or use your own images.

4. Image Correction

This feature allows you to enhance the quality, appearance, and correctness of a photo. Image correction involves adjusting light, colors, contrast, sharpness, and brightness. You can use the feature for noise reduction, geometric adjustments, and fixing distortions. 

Image correction

5. Sky Replacement

This is an AI-based feature that can detect the sky in an image and let you edit it very quickly. You can select a new sky image and seamlessly integrate it to suit the overall composition of the original image.

Sky Replacement

The app allows you to introduce a colder or warmer feel to the sky by tweaking the sky temperature settings. You can also adjust the exposure to brighten or darken the sky.

6. Editing Tools

inPixio Photo Studio 12 also gives you additional editing features that are worth a mention. These include Background blur, which can make a subject in a photo stand out by blurring the background. It also has Tilt Shift and Soft Focus. Those are also blurring tools that you can use to add horizontal soft focus to images.

Background blur

Additionally, Color Effects can refine photos with the selection of LUTs present in inPixio. The app also gives room to import custom filters to suit your needs. There’s also Photo Maximizer which is an ultra-powerful zoom function useful in producing enlarged versions of images to up to 1000%.

Pricing

inPixio Photo Studio 12 offers three different pricing plans.

Photo STUDIO Standard costs $49.99/year. However, it’s the basic plan won’t allow you to use features like Photo Maximizer, Sky replacement, and other creative effects.

Photo STUDIO PRO is a bit ahead in terms of functionality, and it costs $59.99 per year. It gives you Sky replacement, AI background removal, Automatic correction, and more.

Photo STUDIO ULTIMATE costs $99.99 a year, and gives you access to every tool available on this platform.

There’s a limited trial version that you can download to test the software risk-free.

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inPixio Photo Studio 12 Review – Verdict

inPixio Photo Studio 12 is an easy-to-use image editing tool that does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

The system requirement is also low allowing smooth running on Windows versions as low as 7. Admittedly, there’s a lack when it comes to advanced features, but if you want quick and easy results, give this tool a go.