How to remove haze from landscape photos with depth-aware dehaze?
October 15, 2026
Atmospheric haze can make a beautiful landscape look flat and washed out. Distant mountains lose contrast, forests fade into the mist, and colors become less vivid. A dehaze adjustment can help restore detail, but applying the same correction across the entire image may also make the foreground look too dark, harsh, or saturated.
Spatial dehaze takes a different approach: it uses depth information to make haze removal sensitive to the distance of objects from the camera. In Pixea, this lets you control not only the strength of the effect, but also how it is distributed through the scene.
In this tutorial, we'll explain how spatial dehaze works, how it differs from conventional dehaze, and how to use it to restore clarity while preserving the natural atmosphere of a landscape.
How to brighten a dark subject without overexposing the background?
October 14, 2026
Have you ever taken a photo where the background looks perfect, but the person in front of it is too dark? This is a common problem in backlit photography. It often happens when you photograph someone against a bright sky, a sunlit landscape, or a window.
The challenge is to brighten the subject while preserving the details, colors, and atmosphere of the background. Increasing the exposure of the entire image can make the background too bright, so the trick is to adjust different parts of the photo independently.
In this tutorial, we'll explore two ways to fix a dark subject in Pixea: depth-aware adjustments and masks.
E-mail alerts for high CPU, GPU, or memory load
October 27, 2020
With iStatistica Pro you can set up alerts that will trigger different actions when CPU load is high, the temperature of key system elements is critical or your Mac is running low on RAM. These actions include notifications, execution of Automator workflows, and terminal actions. To set up e-mail notifications open Automator app bundled with macOS.
How to get notifications when your laptop switches to a dedicated graphics card?
October 13, 2020
A dedicated graphics card may drain your laptop battery fast. macOS provides a seamless switch between internal and dedicated graphics cards. Sometimes you may not notice that your laptop uses Radeon card instead of Intel integrated graphics. In most cases, Metal-enabled apps may ask the system for access to a dedicated video card. Simply closing such apps may dramatically increase battery life when you have no charger nearby and battery life is more important than solid performance.
How to change the default Mac app for specific image types?
July 18, 2020
Follow these steps to change image files associations in macOS:
- Right-click on an image that uses the file type you'd like to change the default for. For example, one with a .jpg or a .png extension.
- Click on "Get Info" in the pop-up to show a window with file details.
- Click "Open With" to expand the setting.
- Select "Pixea" or any other image viewer from the list.
- Click "Change All...".
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