Pixelmator

[Latro]

Just stumbled across this but its suppose to be a great image editor.... for the mac..

Jed, I'll let you know if it should be tossed into another reason why you need to get a mac.


http://pixelmator.com/

[Labyrinthine]

Just stumbled across this but its suppose to be a great image editor.... for the mac..

Jed, I'll let you know if it should be tossed into another reason why you need to get a mac.


http://pixelmator.com/

False.

Correct answer: photoshop.

[Latro]

Wow, quick to make an assumption without finding out about the comment..  Its a low coast new photo application that's suppose to be lightweight, fast and easy to use.  Photoshop is not any of those. 

I didn't say it had any functionality that photoshop doesn't already have...

Based on that type of thinking everyone would still be saying how wonderful Microsoft is and that they always put out the best products.

[Labyrinthine]

I will agree that photoshop can be expensive, but it is however very fast and easy to use if you bother to spend 20 minutes to learn.

The depth of photoshop is what makes it an industry standard, but it is also very accessible. Any computer competent, design inclined person should have no problem picking up photoshop. This software looks like a mac'ced out version of photoshop elements; all the video showcased was opacity, eraser, blur, layer blending options, rule of thirds tool, and crop. Looking on their website, they don't really include much that isn't found in elements. The interface makes it look like this program is much easier to use than elements, but that's about it. The only useful thing other than a few features and the layout was the rule of thirds tool, which I'm assuming is built in to Pixelmator. You can still do this in photoshop, but you need to define it as a stamp.

Moving right along. No, that logic would not present that microsoft has the best products ever, regardless of what they are releasing. If I hadn't bothered to skim the website and find a dumbed down photoshop clone, making my assumption entirely on opinion, it would have. However, I did bother to look at the features and come to my conclusion. If someone walked up to me and said, "Hi, here is my new OS. It looks like windows, operates like windows, but includes half the features and is half the price." Then I told them that it was just a windows ripoff, I would stand mostly correct. Saying that I'm a moron who thinks that M$ always releases the best products because I didn't like their ripoff is worse than presenting ripoff in the first place.

So, in the end, the program warrants a few nifty features here and there. Overall, though, there is no reason to consider it if you have photoshop or are doing anything more serious than dinking around.

[Mongoose]

And since when is photoshop expensive?

[mikehale]

And since when is photoshop expensive?

when you buy it.

[Latro]

If someone walked up to me and said, "Hi, here is my new OS. It looks like windows, operates like windows, but includes half the features and is half the price." Then I told them that it was just a windows ripoff, I would stand mostly correct. Saying that I'm a moron who thinks that M$ always releases the best products because I didn't like their ripoff is worse than presenting ripoff in the first place.

Your argument is completely flawed as I didn't initial compare it to photoshop because I was never saying it was competing with photoshop. And I never called you a moron, I just showed that I was suprised that you'd come to such a quick conclusion and bluntly state that a product I didn't compare it to is better.  My analogy with microsoft software was poorly chosen but not to the extent that you took it.

Its a mac application for photo editing and I figured Jed would find some kind of interest (even if he doesn't like it) in knowing about it as he works in that industry and often mentions how some day if the stars align correctly he might try one out.  Photoshop is not a Mac only application and probably would not have any impact on him using a mac.

Its impressive these two brothers put together good photo editing software in the past 9 months and plan to continue to build upon it.  Thats something not many people could accomplish. 

[Labyrinthine]

You didn't initially compare it to photoshop, I brought that up later. I brought it up because you told Jed pixelmator is a reason he needs to try out a mac. I said that your statement was false because Jed already uses photoshop, a superior application, hence this not being a reason to migrate to the mac. Regardless of whether you compared it to photoshop or not, it is a very similar product in a very similar field.

Photoshop is not a mac only application, so yes, it is less likely to have an impact on him using a mac. However, pixelmator would give him no reason to migrate to a mac if photoshop already does everything pixelmator does and more. In regards to pixelmator having any effect on Jed moving to a mac, this is probably the most important point; pixelmator presents very few, if any, advantages over photoshop. If Jed can get all things pixelmator has to offer on windows photoshop, then neither pixelmator nor mac photoshop would influence jed to move. One doesn't offer anything better, one offers the exact same features on a different platform.

[Jedakiah]

That is a cool looking ap.  I'm excited that it puts a great deal of it's processing on the video card.  That is the way to go in applications like this IMO. 

As someone who has never used Elements but has used a competing product, I thought that pixelmator looks like it had many additional features. 

I hope the program is stable and works as good as it looks on paper.  I would love to see a strong competition for Photoshop in the market.  Even if it isn't as full featured yet, the 10 fold price reduction could prove it's initial selling point. 

I love Photoshop as much as the next guy, but I have noticed many things that could be streamlined.  The program sometimes feel clunky in areas where simpler programs have done it better.  And the program does seem to make pretty good use of system resources, but to the best of my knowledge it doesn't utilize any GPUs large potential.  However, I also have not yet used CS3.  And I hear that CS3 improves the interface and completely revamped the engine. 

Thanks for sharing.  I guarantee you that the day the sell Mac OS for custom builds is the day I'll switch.  Until then, it's up in the air.  I'd certainly rather run my business software on a more stable OS, as my hate for Windows grows with each passing day. 

[Jakestaby]

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[Latro]

yeah what she said... Who speaks.. what is this French?

[Jedakiah]

I'm curious what I was supposed to get out of that, besides bloobity blobity blah blooh blah...

[Jakestaby]

I'm curious what I was supposed to get out of that, besides bloobity blobity blah blooh blah...

Exactly.  That's what I got out of all the preceding posts.  Probably because I didn't read them.  But still.

[ikonoclast]

I'm curious what I was supposed to get out of that, besides bloobity blobity blah blooh blah...

Exactly.  That's what I got out of all the preceding posts.  Probably because I didn't read them.  But still.

at least she was nicer to look at. not by much, but still nicer.