In the bright pre-recession days of 2008 I, and a bunch of my co-workers,
bought into MacHeist: get a bunch of Mac OS X apps
for about $30. One of those apps was Pixelmator.
Pixelmator is basically a lite Photoshop-clone for Mac OS X. Some thoughts on it:
It’s sexy. Popup-notices when undoing actions. Cute tool pallete
(especially like the [...]
In the bright pre-recession days of 2008 I, and a bunch of my co-workers,
bought into MacHeist: get a bunch of Mac OS X apps
for about $30. One of those apps was Pixelmator.
Pixelmator is basically a lite Photoshop-clone for Mac OS X. Some thoughts on it:
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It’s sexy. Popup-notices when undoing actions. Cute tool pallete
(especially like the eye-dropper).
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It works. It is fullfilling my needs for recent work (cutting up screenshots,
the odd tweak for images in Komodo. I’m
not a graphics guy but I’ve played enough with Photoshop to suspect that the
“lite” I mention above is a good thing for me. 1 -
If it helps others, here is my
hyperlink_color.pxm
Pixelmator file for the “Komodo color hyperlinks” screenshot in my previous
blog
post.
This set of free arrow
images
is a great resource for slapping arrows into your screenshots.
The version that was current when I bought it was a little crashy, but at some
point between then and now them seemed to have fixed whatever crashes I was
hitting. This is the best $30 I’ve spent on the web.
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I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has real experience with
Photoshop and Pixelmator if it actually is “lite Photoshop”. Poking
around the menus there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot less in Pixelmator.
Perhaps the big part of Photoshop is the set of 3rd party extensions and
integration with other tools like Illustrator? ↩
