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DESCRIPTION
Pixelmator is a beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
Pixelmator is a layer-based image editor. You can quickly create layers from your photos, other pictures, from selections or even your iSight. Yes, Pixelmator can add a layer to your composition directly from your Mac’s little camera. Not only can you link and arrange added layers, but Pixelmator allows you to blend layers, change their opacity, create clipping masks or even add layer masks to hide some portions of layer.
It even has iSight compatibility so you can have it take a picture and add it as a layer for editing.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5:
- The new Web tools in Pixelmator allow users to prepare and export images for the Web with minimal effort, whether it is an individual image or a complex page layout. Images can be optimized and saved in Web-standard JPEG, PNG, or GIF file formats with different quality settings.
- The new powerful Slice tool in Pixelmator can be used to slice an image into pieces, allowing each piece of an image to be optimized and saved using its own optimization settings. Saving an optimized part of an image is as easy as dragging and dropping it onto the desktop. The file size and preview of optimized slices or images are available in nearly real-time in the Pixelmator window.
- Pixelmator also comes with a useful Web Color plug-in for the Apple Color Palette, allowing Web designers to select and copy hexadecimal colors quickly to the HTML or CSS application.
- The new Info Labels feature unobtrusively shows useful information depending on the tool in use such as selection, crop and slice sizes, tolerance levels for Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, and Magic Eraser, gradient angle and radius, transform dimensions, and more.
- The new Trim feature allows quick and easy cropping of an image by trimming surrounding transparent pixels or background pixels in a specified color.
- Other new features in Pixelmator 1.5 Spider include:
- support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Italian language
- the Reveal All feature
- the Send To feature that allows the user to send images quickly to the Mail and iPhoto applications
- improved Export, Image Size, Canvas Size, and File Info features
- minor user interface changes
- compatibility and performance improvements
- and several bug fixes.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later
- Core Image supported graphics card (recommended)
- Some features require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and/or iLife.
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| Pixelmator User Reviews (89 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 17 2009 |
GOLDYN CHYLD Hey guys, is it at all possible to fix Barrel Distortion in Pixelmator? (For example, refer to this picture to see what I'm talking about: http://ebookfree.org/gimp/barrel-distortion.jpg) | |
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 | Nov 7 2009 |
JOEYA I've been watching Pixelmator for a while and it's really starting to mature into a useful product. That said, if this app aims to appeal to web designers it's in desperate need of layer groups, layer effects and vector shapes (perhaps even a pen tool). It also sorely needs some sort of sane palette management. Although it's a good looking app, it seriously has one of the most cluttered interfaces I've ever seen.
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| Oct 29 2009 |
JOHN MALIS My main image editor. Much more appealing then the very expensive Photoshop. Work like Photoshop but looks much more OSX-like. Top product !! Highly recommended.
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 | Oct 3 2009 |
MACINEN Would be nice to try Pixelmator, because so many people recommend it. But: There is no RAW format and I shoot exclusively in raw, so I don't even bother trying. Any chance of getting the raw support to Pixelmator?
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| Sep 12 2009 |
JAZZIEMAC I love Pixelmator. For years I have wanted to do more with my photo's, a week after owning this app I was creating great results. I really like the tutorial vids. At the price, it's just fab.
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| Sep 9 2009 |
BUMBLEB I have been an avid criticizer of Pixelmator because it has been unstable on my MBP. Latest version on Snow Leopard seems better. No graphics card related bugs it seems. Maybe due to Snow Leopard, maybe due to Pixelmator 1.5 code. Still a lot spinning beachball on large images (more than 3000x4000 pixels) but I guess that's due to its nature as a GFX card driven app. In the future, on better GFX cards that the one I have today (GeForce 8600M GT 128MB) it will probably rock'n'roll;-)
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| Sep 8 2009 |
TICE Requires 10.5 or greater is wrong. With my older PPC and 10.5.6 Web Export crashes regularly. I heard 10.5.7 is necessary. Looking foreward to test ist under 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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 | Sep 1 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Since I wrote my review on April 21, 2009, a fantastic new app called Brush Pilot has been released, which helps mitigate the brush management issues in Pixelmator. Not a perfect solution because I still feel Pixelmator's brush management is subpar, and you shouldn't have to run another app alongside it, but it's better than nothing. Brush Pilot can be found here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/31704/brush-pilot
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| Aug 21 2009 |
PETER_EARTHMAN For me the best OS X image editor. It is clearly a copy of Photoshop seeing all menus are exactly the same. Great use if HUD windows makes this a joy to use. For this price it is a absolute winner ! Thanks to all the programmers to make such a nice tool.
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| Apr 30 2009 |
MACSTUF2 This is an amazing application. Beautiful interface and very easy to use. Even though its not as powerful as photoshop it still gets the job, done doing 70% of what u would do in photo shop. the simplicity pixelmator has and at the same time the things it can do amaze me. And all these amazing features you get for only 60$ is a steal you should definitely try it out.Also if you need any help i do tutorials on my youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/macstuf2.
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