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If you're looking for a full-featured image editor at a relatively low price, Pixelmator fills the bill nicely. Sporting a smooth Mac-friendly interface, Pixelmator offers a layout much like Adobe Photoshop with separate toolbars offering standard selector and paint brush type tools, a color-picker, a layer manager, and a brush picker with large array of options, from "follow direction" to multiple jitter settings. Pixelmator also has support for Adobe Photoshop brushes.
Also like Photoshop, Pixelmator comes with all the image manipulation tools you might need for adjusting color, saturation, brightness and contrast, and many more. If you want to add effects to your images, you can pick from several different common filters like distortion, blur, sharpen, halftone, and stylize, along with more esoteric filters like clouds and noise. Essentially, Pixelmator gives you a lot of the same tools, effects, filters, and capabilities (like save for Web and trim) that you would find in Photoshop, though you won't find many of Photoshop's more advanced tools.
Perhaps the biggest difference most users with above average image editing needs will notice is Pixelmator's price ($59). It's important to note the demo version watermarks all your images, but once you see the amount of features this app has, you probably won't mind paying for all that functionality.
Publisher's Description
From Pixelmator Team:
Pixelmator is an image editor for Mac OS X that allows you to create, edit, and enhance your images. Interface designed for work with images, layers-based image editing, use over 20 tools for selecting, crop, painting, retouching, typing, measuring, and navigation. Use over 15 color correction tools, use over 50 filters, adjust image size and resolution. Transform images, layers or selections using transform tools, fill and stroke images, layers or selections, photo browser offers quick access to iPhoto Library, events, albums, smart albums, and pictures folder. Use your iSight camera to add pictures to your compositions. Includes automator actions for converting, resizing, enhancing, adding special effects, and transforming images. Image processing is powered by core image and open GL.
What's new in this version:
- Once launched, the app will ask whether to move itself directly to the Applications folder (thanks for inspiration on this to Potion Factory's The Hit List and Delicious Library from Delicious Monster).
- Old Automator Resize Images action is replaced by new Fit Images and Crop Images actions.
- Untitled document numeration is now according to Apple HIG.
- You can now drag the Welcome screen by clicking anywhere on it.
- It is now possible to Quit, Hid... See all new features
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3.5 starsout of 23 votes
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Current version:
3.5 starsout of 2 votes
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"What a deal!"
Version: Pixelmator 1.5.1
Pros
More intuitive than P'shop. Inexpensive! Fun!
Cons
Not perfectly intuitive and not quite as Rambo as P'shop.
Summary
Just the thing for the majority of the more common photo tasks.
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"Does what it needs to do, overly complex."
Version: Pixelmator 1.5.1
Pros
Lots of functionality.
Cons
The floating palettes and the arcane structure makes that one always seems to be spending lots of time looking for 'how to do it'
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I found no shortcomings for any of the work I need to do, but oh boy, I will never learn to use it as I find the complexity such, that I can't seem to remember how to get it done for a next project. The learning curve seems to get steeper instead of reaching a stage of intuitive working.
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