Some people need to work with 16 bit images at least part of the time, so it's a moot point how good Pixelmator is. They stil need something that does. Many keep pestering the developers about this and they've always been a bit evasive. The latest is that they made a cryptic statement about this and the arrival of the new Mac Pros, so if that becomes a reality there will REALLY be some dropping of PS for it.
Blah. That's because the Adobe shills convinced you that allocating 16 bits of data to a very limited number of stops was a good idea. The very best digital cameras can actually make use of 14-16 bits, but they use it to store quite a few stops, not the compressed range of a processed file.
Yeah, agree with feynman here, if they can eventually bring out a rival to Illustrator too, that'd make some serious competition to Adobe%u2019s dominance (I'm trying to hold back from upgrading to the Creative Cloud as long as I can).
If the guys at Pixelmator could motivate Andrew Stone of Stone Design to bring Create.app up to speed with the latest in Vector Graphics you'd have your Illustrator replacement.
Yeah, it is an excellent application .. only one suggestion .. lose the floating windows in the next major release.
You made this comment on their blog. Keep the option. The Photoshop All-in-One is obnoxious. Stored state floating windows that NeXTSTEP had were far superior. Then again NeXTSTEP for its time had me more productive than OS X.
I've been using Pixelmator for a few years now, it covers 99.9% of what I do i.e. quick touch up and resize before uploading to the web.
As far as the floating windows go one of my desktops has a plain background and I find it works quite well there, especially since I upgraded to a 15" retina.
I work professionally with Pixelmator. It does not have all Photoshop tools, true, but that does not mean you cannot use it as a pro. I just finished a movie poster using just Pixelmator for the first time. I liked Adobe, but I refuse to shovel my money into their purses for an eternity. And because of this, I have discovered Pixelmator, Sketch, iDraw, Intensify. Aperture-Pixelmator-Intensify is wonderful if you are a photographer! If you have never seen Intensify, look at it! It is not cheap, but once you have tried it, you will never leave it!
I remember my first copy of Photoshop. What a great program! I ran it on my Mac II with only 8 Mb of RAM. I got it free with a scanner I had bought. Back then I also bought Freehand, another great vector draw ing program. Loved it. Gone now... assimilated into Adobe, never to be seen again.
I ran Photoshop 2.5 on my Mac Classic with 2.5Mb of RAM! :)
New to Mac and Aperture - Where does Pixelmator fit into the workflow with Aperture?
Aperture has a few enhancement tools, purely made for photography. Pixelmator is designed for artwork, including photography. To enjoy both tools, use both software packages. There is an overlap, but also distinct feature set.
"Pixelmator was born in 2007 when brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide went searching for an OS X-native image editor and came up empty handed."
What does that mean? PS was born decades ago. Am I missing something?
It is quite possible they meant something designed for the Mac as the primary platform? We would have to ask them to clarify.
On top of all that, PixelMator has the advantage that it is affordable, without the need of a business budget. The only thing I don't know is whether photographers would consider the feature set good enough to compete with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements? I would be interested in finding out.
Thanks. I thought Illustrator was a prosumer app versus PS.
Tallest Skil is correct. However, the important thing to know is that the more complex the drawing the more appropriate a bit map is. If you are creating a logo, which generally is made of simple geometric shapes, you should create it using vector software (iDraw or illustrator). If you want to edit a face or a natural landscape (very complex), you take a picture (bit map) and modify the pixels using Pixelmator. Vector drawings are better at scaling but bit maps are easy to create because you can just take a picture.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned image editing app Acorn in the comments. When I Google "Acorn vs. Pixelmator," I find lots of comparisons, but none that crowns either the definitive winner.
Still for sale but needs Rosetta and OS X 10.5. The first time Adobe acquired Freehand from Aldus they gave it back to the original developers Altsys who then sold it to Macromedia, When Adobe acquired Macromedia they didn't really want Freehand because Illustrator was the de facto standard for professional vector graphic, still is, but at that time they gave Freehand MX away for free. You can't really fault Adobe. Why should they spend development resources on something they don't even want? I don't think any other company wants it either. It would require a complete rewrite. It is just not worth it.
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Some people need to work with 16 bit images at least part of the time, so it's a moot point how good Pixelmator is. They stil need something that does. Many keep pestering the developers about this and they've always been a bit evasive. The latest is that they made a cryptic statement about this and the arrival of the new Mac Pros, so if that becomes a reality there will REALLY be some dropping of PS for it.
Blah. That's because the Adobe shills convinced you that allocating 16 bits of data to a very limited number of stops was a good idea. The very best digital cameras can actually make use of 14-16 bits, but they use it to store quite a few stops, not the compressed range of a processed file.
Yeah, it is an excellent application .. only one suggestion .. lose the floating windows in the next major release.
If the guys at Pixelmator could motivate Andrew Stone of Stone Design to bring Create.app up to speed with the latest in Vector Graphics you'd have your Illustrator replacement.
Yeah, it is an excellent application .. only one suggestion .. lose the floating windows in the next major release.
You made this comment on their blog. Keep the option. The Photoshop All-in-One is obnoxious. Stored state floating windows that NeXTSTEP had were far superior. Then again NeXTSTEP for its time had me more productive than OS X.
Making it an option should satisfy both worlds.
I've been hoping that Apple would buy Pixelmator and merge it into Aperture to make a start to finish non-destructive editing workflow. Why not?
Gawd, no.
I've been using Pixelmator for a few years now, it covers 99.9% of what I do i.e. quick touch up and resize before uploading to the web.
As far as the floating windows go one of my desktops has a plain background and I find it works quite well there, especially since I upgraded to a 15" retina.
Originally Posted by [B]mdriftmeyer[/B]
Gawd, no.[/QUOTE]Why not?
I use Pixelmator to open EPS. I have not tried AI yet.
I work professionally with Pixelmator. It does not have all Photoshop tools, true, but that does not mean you cannot use it as a pro. I just finished a movie poster using just Pixelmator for the first time. I liked Adobe, but I refuse to shovel my money into their purses for an eternity. And because of this, I have discovered Pixelmator, Sketch, iDraw, Intensify. Aperture-Pixelmator-Intensify is wonderful if you are a photographer! If you have never seen Intensify, look at it! It is not cheap, but once you have tried it, you will never leave it!
Yes, rob53, you are right! I totally agree with you!
Smaller is better. And that's not what she said.
I'm sure you have a point ¡
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Aperture has a few enhancement tools, purely made for photography. Pixelmator is designed for artwork, including photography. To enjoy both tools, use both software packages. There is an overlap, but also distinct feature set.
It is quite possible they meant something designed for the Mac as the primary platform? We would have to ask them to clarify.
On top of all that, PixelMator has the advantage that it is affordable, without the need of a business budget. The only thing I don't know is whether photographers would consider the feature set good enough to compete with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements? I would be interested in finding out.
I use Aperture for first treatment of my photos, then Pixelmator and or Intensify for something extra!
Thanks. I thought Illustrator was a prosumer app versus PS.
Tallest Skil is correct. However, the important thing to know is that the more complex the drawing the more appropriate a bit map is. If you are creating a logo, which generally is made of simple geometric shapes, you should create it using vector software (iDraw or illustrator). If you want to edit a face or a natural landscape (very complex), you take a picture (bit map) and modify the pixels using Pixelmator. Vector drawings are better at scaling but bit maps are easy to create because you can just take a picture.
http://www.adobe.com/products/freehand/
Still for sale but needs Rosetta and OS X 10.5. The first time Adobe acquired Freehand from Aldus they gave it back to the original developers Altsys who then sold it to Macromedia, When Adobe acquired Macromedia they didn't really want Freehand because Illustrator was the de facto standard for professional vector graphic, still is, but at that time they gave Freehand MX away for free. You can't really fault Adobe. Why should they spend development resources on something they don't even want? I don't think any other company wants it either. It would require a complete rewrite. It is just not worth it.