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CNET Editors' review
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:
- Retina-Ready: Both Pixelmator's friendly user interface and its powerful image editing engine are now optimized for the Retina display.
- iCloud: Built right into the app and keeps your Pixelmator work up to date across all your Macs.
- Effects Browser: The best and the most fun way to browse: instantly preview and quickly apply special effects or add color adjustments to images.
- New Effects: Use the new Vintage, Miniaturize, Black and White, Rain, and Snow effe... See all new features
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"It's OK... for a cheap product"
Version: Pixelmator 2.1
Pros
Inexpensive, and sort of easy to figure out. It's good for snapshots. Some of the special effects are nice.
Cons
It crashes a lot. I like the apps I used on my PC a lot better, especially ACDSee. Unfortunately, ACDSee doesn't have a good Mac version. So I'm looking for something comparable. The tools are lousy in Pixelmator, especially "heal," "burn," and "dodge," which are essential! The text boxes don't have a professional look.
Summary
I got what I paid for. But I'm still looking. Maybe I'll bite the bullet and go with PhotoShop.
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Full Specifications
What's new in version 2.1
- Retina-Ready: Both Pixelmator's friendly user interface and its powerful image editing engine are now optimized for the Retina display.
- iCloud: Built right into the app and keeps your Pixelmator work up to date across all your Macs.
- Effects Browser: The best and the most fun way to browse: instantly preview and quickly apply special effects or add color adjustments to images.
- New Effects: Use the new Vintage, Miniaturize, Black and White, Rain, and Snow effects.
- Alignment Guides: Quickly position, align, and evenly distribute objects in your Pixelmator compositions with pinpoint accuracy.
- OS X Mountain Lion Support: Pixelmator takes full advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
General
- Download Type:
- CNET Secure Download
- Publisher
- Pixelmator Team
- Publisher Web Site
- http://www.pixelmator.com
- Release Date
- August 09, 2012
- Date Added
- August 09, 2012
- Version
- 2.1
Category
- Category
- Digital Photo Software
- Subcategory
- Photo Editors
System Requirements
- Operating Systems
- Mac OS X 10.8, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac OS X 10.6
- Additional Requirements
- Not available
Download Information
- File Size
- 29.91MB
- File Name
- Pixelmator.zip
Popularity
- Total Downloads
- 53,128
- Downloads Last Week
- 364
Pricing
- License Model
- Free to try
- Limitations
- 30-day trial
- Price
- $59.00
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