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Pixelmator 3.0
- erso 13y agoNote to Pixelmator folks: Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular. Perhaps that should say: Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular images. Or something.
- zachrose 13y agoThink different!
- trhaynes 13y agoThis sentence is grammatically incorrect, too: "With the new Layer Styles, a complete set of Liquify Tools, and support for the new OS X Mavericks features — creating advanced and polished compositions — is now so much simpler, faster, and more enjoyable." I suggest something like: "Creating advanced and polished compositions is now simpler, faster, and more enjoyable with new Layer Styles, a complete set of Liquify Tools, and support for the new OS X Mavericks features."
- Alphasite_ 13y agoIts very clunky, maybe 'into something spectacular' (i'm not sure if thats any better)?
- delluminatus 13y agoGrammatically speaking, you might be best off with, Make good-looking pictures spectacular. Or: Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular ones. I think "good-looking pictures" is an awkward phrase that negatively affects the whole sentence. Personally, I would go with: Turn a good image into a spectacular one or, brevis: Make good images spectacular
- MildlySerious 13y agoOr "Turn 'good looking' into 'spectacular'".
- tnorthcutt 13y agoThere are several other grammatical errors or awkward sentence constructions. Pixelmator team: I think you could benefit greatly from hiring a native English speaker to comb through your website copy and fix these (admittedly small) issues. Please don't take offense at that suggestion; I honestly think it would benefit you and your business to do so.
- tehwebguy 13y agoAnyone know how PSD read support has come along?
- quarterto 13y agoIt was pretty much flawless as of 2.2.1, with the obvious exception of layer styles.
- aaronholbrook 13y agoAny idea of how their layer styles are now?
- emehrkay 13y agoLayer styles are HUGE with photoshop work. Once they get that under control, I wonder what else they'll need to make a dent, maybe some design maven to vouch for the tool I am downloading now. I've always loved the simplicity of the app, very Mac-like
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI don't know much about this type of software but one of the big new features they talk about on the linked page is Layer Styles.
- aaronholbrook 13y agoThis is exactly what I wanted to know. Last time I tried it it was nice, but without the ability to read PSDs correctly (and not misinterpret things to be all over the place) it's quite useless to me.
- cseelus 13y agoI have to open PSDs that make use of layer styles on a regular basis, so I'd love to pay a much higher price, would it fully support PSDs.
- Schweigi 13y agoNice!. I was glad when I found Pixelmator as an easy to use image tool on OSX after working with Paint.Net on Windows.
- Ethan_Mick 13y agoI haven't downloaded v3 yet, but I love using Pixelmator for quick edits and tweaks to images. It loads much faster on my MacBook Air than Photoshop, and I've found the learning curve to be much lower too. All while having 80% of the features from Photoshop; which for my basic needs is 98% of everything I'll do. Version 3 looks like a huge win for customers, really excited to be grabbing the update for free from the App Store. Although honestly, I'd pay for it again at this point.
- princess3000 13y agoAlmost made this exact post... I was looking for a Photoshop clone for Mac and stumbled on Pixelmator years ago, it's definitely not as full-featured as PS but it's a fraction of the cost and it does what I need it to do 98% of the time. For $30 it's a steal, especially if they're upgrading it like this.
- asolove 13y agoI really wanted to love Pixelmator but this update finally makes it usable for me solely for baseline support in text.
- devx 13y agoIt would be nice if they made it cross-platform, like on Linux/Windows and even Android/iOS eventually. It might give Adobe a run for their money.
- TheCoreh 13y agoI doubt this will happen anytime soon. Pixelmator is heavily dependent on OSX-specific tech, like core graphics. Porting it to other platforms would require basically reimplementing all this functionality from scratch, making it performant, and then recreating the entire UI.
- stephencanon 13y agoIndeed; ~half of the technologies listed in their splash image for the "New Image Editing Engine" are Apple-specific: vImage, Accelerate framework, vDSP, Core Animation, ColorSync, Core Image, ... Some of these have rough equivalents on other platforms, but the interfaces definitely don't line up exactly, so it wouldn't be completely straightforward to shim them. Others simply don't have existing equivalents.
- tyleregeto 13y agoI would also really like to see this, but it doesn't look like it'll ever happen. Linux doesn't have any good alternatives to Photoshop, GIMP just isn't there in terms of usability. I use GIMP for quick edits, cropping, etc. But I just can't use it for more than that.
- deviltry 13y agoIsn't free Paint.NET sufficient on Windows as 'light' Photoshop?
- gibwell 13y agoEven if they don't make it cross platform, it will probably give Adobe a run for their money. Progress on this thing had been astoundingly fast, and compared to Adobe it's practically free.
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- deviltry 13y agoPaint is enough for my photo editing needs, but I still need to show some love. Because it's a product from my country - Lithuania. Yes, not a big deal to you, but when there's only 3 million people, it's something to be proud of.
- nailer 13y agoVectormator is awesome, but still can't export to either EPS or SVG. I'm hoping they add it soon - SnapSVG, the Raphael replacement, supports animating SVGs created in other apps: http://snapsvg.io/ http://snapsvg.io/
- nikso 13y agowow! I didn't know Pixelmator could do that. It's an instant buy for me! I've been looking for a replacement to illustrator for a long time. Please Pixelmator people give love to vector graphics!
- electic 13y agoI wish the color selectors were better. The pallets need work imho. Otherwise, love the update!
- thepumpkin1979 13y agoWow, I just checked all the tutorial videos. I've never seen such delightful Demos in my life, makes me want to buy the thing. I wonder how effective would it be to create UI's for Mobile apps in Pixelmator, I'm donwloading the Trial.
- todd3834 13y agoI am very impressed with this and for $30! Giving photoshop a run for their money!
- zack12 13y agoCan anybody spread some light on the business model they are trying to follow? I know they sell software, but with a single software for $29 and few employees. They need to sell quite a few licenses to make it. I know its an ignorant statement, but can anybody explain it to me.
- gibwell 13y agoThey sell millions of licenses a year. Their revenue per employee exceeds that of Google or Apple. Is more explanation needed?
- sgustard 13y agoDo you have a source for those numbers? I have no reason to doubt you, but you seem put off by the question. It's a legitimate concern before sending money to a company to ask how financially secure they are.
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- gibwell 13y agoI was put off by the idea they needed a business model other than selling the app for money. A little googling should provide the due diligence you require.
- seanalltogether 13y agoI'm also curious how well this will work in the long run. Apple doesn't have a good model for paid upgrades on the app store and so far they've refused to implement anything to deal with it.
- danudey 13y agoThey've made enough money at this point that they could just tell all their developers to work on whatever they wanted and they'd still be well off in the medium term. Their next big product should be a good standalone vector engine app that people can replace Illustrator with. That'd save a lot of designers I know several hundred dollars a year. Especially with Adobe's cloud stuff getting more and more mandatory…
- crazygringo 13y agoHas anyone tried using this for web design? Any idea how it compares to Photoshop in that regard? (Obviously Photoshop is not great for web design, but it's still the de-facto standard...)
- apierre 13y agoI think Sketch would be more suitable for web design.
- uptown 13y agoIs Sketch a suitable replacement for Illustrator? I've been trying to find the right application to replace Illustrator for my very-infrequent needs which can't justify Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription pricing.
- cormullion 13y agoSketch is good, particularly for smaller intricate work, but runs out of steam under stress. The focus is tighter - Illustrator does much more - and for some categories of work it's a delight to use.
- apierre 13y agoIt depends on your infrequent needs. Are you using advanced Illustrator features? I also cannot justify a subscription to Adobe CC and try to use Sketch as a Fireworks/Photoshop alternative.
- uptown 13y agoI'm definitely not using the advanced Illustrator features. The one limiting factor I've found with Sketch is importing existing .AI files. Seems like I'm unable to ungroup the various elements of a file to work with. I'm a pretty heavy Photoshop user, so I'll probably take advantage of their photography offer for $10/month which is easily justifiable: https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom
- atldev 13y agoI like the clever use of css-based animations on the marketing site. The Invision feature tour (http://www.invisionapp.com/tour http://www.invisionapp.com/tour) does a great job of this as well. It probably goes unnoticed by the majority of visitors, but I think it communicates great design and attention to detail in a very subtle way. Hats off to the designers and marketing team that built a great site to get the message out.
- gedrap 13y agoThis is probably the most successful Lithuanian IT startup (which is still based there, as far as I know). As a Lithuanian, I'm feeling really happy to see how far and awesome they got!
- antr 13y agoI've been using Pixelmator since they pushed it to the Mac App store, and all this time I thought they where German... good to know I was wrong!
- gedrap 13y agoThat's interesting, I live in the UK and most of the people think I'm German as well :)
- potatolicious 13y agoI've bought Pixelmator twice now. Once on the App Store and once before. $30 is IMO way too little to pay for an app of this quality. Very happy to see Pixelmator continue to enjoy some well-deserved success.
- caycep 13y agoOK, this belies my ignorant American self, but for some reason I got the idea in my head they were Greek and were based in Philadelphia.... Awesome to see indy Mac development in Lithuania...here's to them keeping it up. I haven't launched an Adobe product in years, in part thanks to them.
- daliusd 13y agoInterestingly Pennsylvania is the only place where I was suspected being Greek (I'm Lithuanian). Lithuanian and Greek surnames sometimes has the same ending "is" but in Pixelmator case it does not apply.
- buzzkillr2 13y agoWhat a fantastic application! I wish more companies operated like the Pixelmator Team
- kawera 13y agoCan it save 16-bit tifs? I've searched but didn't find any mention.
- kawera 13y agoI've found it in their forum. We'll have more to say about 16-bit support later this year when the new Mac Pro is out.
- shurcooL 13y agoPixelmator is great (and I've bought it long ago), but I still have just one simple feature request: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwKIsQXpSmsJ:support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D4%26t%3D8651+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwKIsQX...
- weiy 13y agoLooks nice, but no thanks. I think I will stick with GIMP (it's free!)
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- mythz 13y agoPixemlator is positively awesome, one of the highest quality + polished native apps I've used, at insane value! It quickly became my primary graphics editor of choice. Though it's weird that I bought a copy years ago and am still getting free upgrades? I'd happily pay for an upgrade again.
- devindotcom 13y agoI'm glad others like it, but I find it a massive pain every time I use it. A million things seem the opposite way than they should be to me. I really, really wish there were more all-purpose lightweight image editors on OS X so I could get away from it. I suppose it's high time I gave Gimp another shot...
- demallien 13y agoHave you tried Acorn?
- devindotcom 13y agoI have not, at least not in a long time. I think last I tried it it was still a little early so I ended up with Pixelmator. I'll give it another shot, thanks for the reminder.
- antimatter 13y agoHave you tried Acorn? http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/ http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
- gerry_shaw 13y agoTried v2 and didn't like it and actually got a refund from MAS for it. They are so good at marketing but Acorn is a better product.
- highwind 13y agoCan you give an example of an opposite way?
- vilius 13y agoRemember "Google buys Sparrow"? I wonder if we'll see "Adobe buys Pixelmator" in the near future.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoI’d rather it not be acquired, but if it were, I’d much rather that it be acquired by Apple. That company doesn’t currently have a full-fledged image editor in its software lineup and probably wouldn’t cancel or cripple the product. As Adobe already ships several full-fledged image editing tools, I don’t have much faith they would leave this product intact. I use Adobe products for much of my day, but I still hate them for what they did to GoLive CyberStudio.
- yardie 13y agoThose 2 have an obsessive, abusive relationship. Adobe cancels Premiere for the Mac, Apple releases Final Cut Pro. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has a mole in Pixelmator who calls the Apple batphone if Adobe starts to sniff around their office.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoI do agree with you that Apple and Adobe have a strained relationship, it has been so for decades. However, your example isn’t correct. Apple bought Final Cut Pro from Macromedia in 1998 and released its first version in 1999. At the time, Adobe had been releasing new versions of Premiere for both Mac and PC for years, and the product only went Windows-only in 2003 (when it renamed the product Premiere Pro.) In 2007, it started releasing Premiere for both platforms again.
- welly 13y agoI'm curious as to what reasons people think Adobe might buy Pixelmator other than to shut down the competition? They already have a budget image editor - albeit not as cheap as Pixelmator and is there any technology in Pixelmator that Adobe doesn't already have?
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago36MB to download the full app. It takes up 66MB on my disk. Photoshop CC takes up 1.1GB, that’s 20 times as much – quite a contrast.
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoI wonder what takes up that much space in Photoshop. I suspect the brush files, iirc those take up quite some space. I can imagine Pixelmator uses much more native / vertex images, like those you can create using PaintCode [1], which generates a bit of native Objective C code to produce the image you draw in that app. Paintcode is a great way to reduce the size of your app's downloaded content, btw. [1] http://www.paintcodeapp.com/ http://www.paintcodeapp.com/
- Geee 13y agoWow, layer styles! This was the only major thing missing compared to Photoshop. Everything else was already far better than Photoshop for my use.
- jasonkester 13y agoDid anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab, thinking it was broken before coming back here to discover that it was just a full-page screenshot of a desktop app? I'd never heard of Pixelmator, so I made the natural assumption from what came up on screen that it was some form of web-based photoshop thing. But it's not. And there's nothing but a screenshot above the fold. So it just looks broken. I wonder how many potential customers they're bouncing this way.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago> Did anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab Nope, sorry. Looked like a pretty obvious screenshot to me. The palettes in the screenshot are way too small for me to confuse it for a web app. Also, most people will probably get this from the Mac App Store, which has a very different presentation.
- jodi 13y agoYes, I did the same thing. I was trying to resize her star makeup for a bit.
- bsun 13y agoI thought it was interactive at first too, but it didn't stop my curiosity.
- Guest978120 13y agoI tried clicking the little white boxes, thinking they were tooltips, explaining how that part of the image used a particular Pixelmator feature. Then I realized it was just a screenshot, so I clicked free trial. Same image, but now no site navigation (it doesn't fade in). Refreshed, thinking it was broken. Then it took a few seconds, but I realized you could scroll down, and it had a download button. Why is this so common these days? Full screen images or giant headers filling the screen with no indication of more content? I've had this happen a few times this year. I also just noticed this happens on the homepage too, and it has actual information under the giant screenshot. Sigh, doesn't anyone test these things?
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- killertypo 13y agothis is awesome, i wish I had a mac to make use of it. Are there any good alternatives to this on windows?
- apunic 13y agoMy first thought when on the iTunes web page of Pixelmator: "$29.99, wow this is nothing for that many features" My second thought when on the App Store Page of Pixelmator: "Update [for free since I bought yrs ago Pixelmator]": WTF these guys are awesome
- lukeholder 13y agoBetween this and Sketch I think I am ready to never buy another copy of Photoshop or Illustrator.
- Sephiroth87 13y agoI was expecting a paid upgrade, and would have gladly paid because I love it, but this is just great :D
- antonyme 13y agoLooks like the v3 update still doesn't support NetPBM files (.pgm, .ppm, etc) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format A much earlier version did support this common file format, but for some strange reason it was removed in 2.x. A pgm/ppm file is a wonderfully simple format - it is basically a simple textual header followed by a binary dump of the image data. So it is trivially easy to parse and load or save. It is for this reason that it is so useful, for example when working on image processing algorithms, it is so convenient to export test data, intermediate results and so forth. I hope they will (re-)add support for pgm/ppm files soon. If you think this would be useful too, please vote on the support site.