New promising Core Image app- PixelMator
http://www.pixelmator.com/
Nice UI and ambitious featureset for a new app. I wish'em luck ..if they deliver I'll buy it.
See it in action
Nice UI and ambitious featureset for a new app. I wish'em luck ..if they deliver I'll buy it.
See it in action
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I only skimmed the features but if I can't make custom brushes in this program or have 3rd party filters, I would probably stick with Photoshop but I don't like running it for simple edits. GraphicConverter is quite good but this app looks even better especially concerning layer editing.
Sebastian
People who compare this to Gimp forget this is not an X11 app, and it also has a useable UI. I think it looks very promising, what a terrible, terrible name though. Give me 5 minutes and I'd come up with a better name than that.
Heh, you can always rename it.
Sebastian
People who compare this to Gimp forget this is not an X11 app, and it also has a useable UI. I think it looks very promising, what a terrible, terrible name though. Give me 5 minutes and I'd come up with a better name than that.
I think it?s rather befitting. Please, humour me with a new name. Time starts now?
Thanks Greg. It looks to be very worth the wait.
Took longer than I thought, but it's nice to see Adobe finally getting some competition in the image editing arena.
With Lineform, Xpress, Freeway and now Pixelmator, it's now possible to be a designer on the Mac without actually owning a single Adobe app.
I've been looking forward to this app since Greg hinted about it on these very boards late last year.
Thanks Greg. It looks to be very worth the wait.
Took longer than I thought, but it's nice to see Adobe finally getting some competition in the image editing arena.
With Lineform, Xpress, Freeway and now Pixelmator, it's now possible to be a designer on the Mac without actually owning a single Adobe app.
Can we get confirmation that Pixelmator is the app that Greg was talking about? How could would it be if it wasn't and two new applications were coming?
I think it’s rather befitting. Please, humour me with a new name. Time starts now…
I wont play that game, but I'm willing to bet if you told a class kids the name of two apps, Photoshop and Pixelmator, and asked each of them, individually, everyday for a week what they were again, I'd bet you most of those kids would remember Photoshop, but have a hard time recalling Pixelmator. Sure what's in a name right? I just think it's important. I don't think it's really that important what it's called, as long as it's easy to recall.
With literally two seconds thought, if I was forced to quickly think of a new name for the app, I'd call it Pixelhouse or Pixelbrush.. anything but Pixelmator.
Pixelhouse
and you think pixelmator is bad?
Can we get confirmation that Pixelmator is the app that Greg was talking about? How could would it be if it wasn't and two new applications were coming?
Nah, that's gotta be it.
It's got layers, levels, filters and for a 1.0 release the basics seem to be well covered. Adobe's execs will be concerned tomorrow. $59. is a great price and even makes Photoshop Elements seem terribly overpriced.
The only question is whether the interface is too different for the Photoshopsters to take a shine to. They seem to have kept things where you'd expect them to be and only messed with the overall theme.
If real world performance is fairly comparable to Photoshop speeds, this could get real interesting.
and you think pixelmator is bad?
That I do, I gave my reasons too.
While I know it's not yet a mature release, and $59. is more in line with Elements than the Pro version, this marks the first real challenge to the Photoshop monopoly on the Mac platform in a long while.
Nice looking software by the way.
There's also Gus Muellers Acorn
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
There's also Gus Muellers Acorn
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
This one too looks nice. If I understand well what it says in the site, Acorn is also based on Core Image, right?
Photoshop is still important, but no longer holds the monopoly on the Mac that it used to.
I wonder if Apple could do the same for InDesign?
I wont play that game, but I'm willing to bet if you told a class kids the name of two apps, Photoshop and Pixelmator, and asked each of them, individually, everyday for a week what they were again, I'd bet you most of those kids would remember Photoshop, but have a hard time recalling Pixelmator. Sure what's in a name right? I just think it's important. I don't think it's really that important what it's called, as long as it's easy to recall.
With literally two seconds thought, if I was forced to quickly think of a new name for the app, I'd call it Pixelhouse or Pixelbrush.. anything but Pixelmator.
Pixelhut! Pixelville! Pick-a-pixel! Pix-a-dix-a-ding-dong!