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Go further with third–party apps

to stick with Photos’ built–in editing tools; you can also use third–party apps to enhance your images, either by using them as Extensions within Photos itself (with apps such as Pixelmator Pro) or as stand–alone apps. Photos has many limitations compared to third–party options. You can’t use Photos to creatively combine different images together via layers as you can with Pixelmator Pro. Photos is also limited when it comes to removing unwanted objects (especially if they are larger

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