Pixelmator has been touting "CMYK Support" as a new feature since the fall yet a cursory Google shows people up through this week asking for CMYK support, so it's apparently not the kind of functionality that brings enough to the party. Me personally, I don't deal with it, since I just shoot and tweak. If some one I send images to uses CMYK they're using a tools made for it. I get the impression from the Pixelmator support forum that their team is bent on making it a strong and successful very cheap app for people whom 16 bit TIFFs and CMYK are not part of their workflow.
Pixelmator. I'm trying to cast my mind back to Photoshop 4 (which I loved on my Power Mac back in '97...) and wonder is Pixelmator any worse? I'd hardly call Pixelmator 'basic.' I'd say it's prosumer class. Easy. And if you get used to its workflow you'll be able to produce professional art easily.
Painter. Becoming less eclectic all the time. Approaching the Photoshop interface style. If you want to paint...well, you can see the work others get out of it. Some may argue that Photoshop can paint as well.
Mangastudio is getting better and better if you're a comic artist. A great drawing tool with many fx that you don't have to hand build from scratch. 3D import. Bank of tones and models to use. Symmetry drawing tool. Rulers. Grids. Built in 'real world' drawing tool settings.
And there's the brilliant Procreate on iPad. Give me a Jot Pen and an iPad 5 (when will Apple up the inches and product a 'pro' model?) and you'd be fairy happy I should imagine...(or I would! )
Adobe can 'stick' their Creative Cloud. I may well buy Photoshop's last boxed copy. Then it will be the clock ticking on how many years I get out of it before Apple break the OS support for it.
I'm with you on that LBB. I d/l'd a trial of Illustrator - the bloat ware is horrendous. Adobe DL Manager, Air (which I despise) and all the other crap that goes with Adobe these days. God, PS 4 used to weigh in at 45 Mb all up. The AI trial was around 1.3 Gb download ... never mind unpacked and installed god knows.
Pixelmator et al really do have an opportunity to knock Adobe off their conceited perch. I really hope one of them has a go at it. They'd get a huge chunk of the pro market very quickly imo
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Pixelmator has been touting "CMYK Support" as a new feature since the fall yet a cursory Google shows people up through this week asking for CMYK support, so it's apparently not the kind of functionality that brings enough to the party. Me personally, I don't deal with it, since I just shoot and tweak. If some one I send images to uses CMYK they're using a tools made for it. I get the impression from the Pixelmator support forum that their team is bent on making it a strong and successful very cheap app for people whom 16 bit TIFFs and CMYK are not part of their workflow.
I like Pixelmator.
Cheap.
Powerful.
Improving all the time.
Free upgrades.
Real time filter fx working off the gpu.
I like Photoshop. But it needs competition. Well, it does have some.
Pixelmator. Painter 12. Mangastudio. (...and others.)
Pixelmator. I'm trying to cast my mind back to Photoshop 4 (which I loved on my Power Mac back in '97...) and wonder is Pixelmator any worse? I'd hardly call Pixelmator 'basic.' I'd say it's prosumer class. Easy. And if you get used to its workflow you'll be able to produce professional art easily.
Painter. Becoming less eclectic all the time. Approaching the Photoshop interface style. If you want to paint...well, you can see the work others get out of it. Some may argue that Photoshop can paint as well.
Mangastudio is getting better and better if you're a comic artist. A great drawing tool with many fx that you don't have to hand build from scratch. 3D import. Bank of tones and models to use. Symmetry drawing tool. Rulers. Grids. Built in 'real world' drawing tool settings.
And there's the brilliant Procreate on iPad. Give me a Jot Pen and an iPad 5 (when will Apple up the inches and product a 'pro' model?) and you'd be fairy happy I should imagine...(or I would!
Adobe can 'stick' their Creative Cloud. I may well buy Photoshop's last boxed copy. Then it will be the clock ticking on how many years I get out of it before Apple break the OS support for it.
Lemon Bon Bon.
I'm with you on that LBB.
I d/l'd a trial of Illustrator - the bloat ware is horrendous. Adobe DL Manager, Air (which I despise) and all the other crap that goes with Adobe these days. God, PS 4 used to weigh in at 45 Mb all up. The AI trial was around 1.3 Gb download ... never mind unpacked and installed god knows.
Pixelmator et al really do have an opportunity to knock Adobe off their conceited perch. I really hope one of them has a go at it. They'd get a huge chunk of the pro market very quickly imo
At 45 megs all in. I'd take PS 4 over the bloat of now. Hands down. PS 7 was the last version I really liked.
I'm really rooting for Pixelmator.
Lemon Bon Bon.