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Pixelmator |  | From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
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Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 210
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 231
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: PXMMBX2
Model: PXMMBX2
UPC: 717103891748
EAN: 0717103891748
Release Date: June 8, 2009
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| Features:
| • | Create Exceptional Photos and Stunning Images | | • | Made Exclusively for the Mac. | | • | Edit and retouch your images with 20+ tools, including crop, select, paint and erase and create editable text layers | | • | 16+ color correction tools for adjusting hue, saturation and contrast to make your images more vibrant | | • | Made for the Mac, Pixelmator takes advantage of built-in iPhoto support and one-click access to iSight and lets you export to 100+ file formats |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing program that has everything you need to enhance, edit and retouch your photos. Pixelmator's powerful toolset includes selection, painting, color correction and retouching tools that easily transform and enhance your photos and images. Layer-based image editing, filters and special effects help you quickly achieve impressive imagery. Add text to your pictures, analyze colors, crop, transform, rotate or move anything in your pictures. Made for the Mac, Pixelmator takes advantage of built-in iPhoto support and one-click access to iSight. This user-friendly image editor has everything you need to achieve professional results. Create Exceptional Photos and Stunning Images Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing program that has everything you need to enhance, edit and retouch your photos. Choose from powerful selection, painting, retouching, and color correction tools. Made for the Mac, Pixelmator takes advantage of built-in iPhoto support and one-click access to iSight. Use layer-based image editing, color management, filters and special effects to quickly achieve impressive imagery. |  Pixelmator is a user-friendly image editor that has everything you need to achieve professional results. Click to enlarge. |  Choose from 130+ filters and special effects to transform your images. Click to enlarge. | 130+ Filters and Special Effects
See results in real time--choose from standard filters such as blur, sharpen and distort, as well as many unique filters like comic-style halftones, tile, kaleidoscope and thermal camera. | | Layer-Based Image Editing
Stack portions of your image on top of one another and quickly create layers from photos, selections and more. You can also blend layers, change layer opacity and add layer masks to hide portions of layers. Add images as layers via drag-and-drop. |  Layer-Based Image Editing enables you to quickly create layers from photos, selections and more. Click to enlarge. |  Pixelmator offers more than 16 color correction tools for adjusting brightness, hue, saturation and more. Click to enlarge. | Color Correction Tools
16+ color correction tools help you make quick corrections to your images with Auto Enhance, Levels and Curves. Adjust hue, saturation, exposure, brightness, contrast and more. | | Select, Paint and Retouch Tools
20+ tools, including crop, select, paint and erase help you enhance your images. You can also import and customize Adobe Photoshop Brushes, and graphics tablet support enables you to draw by hand. Add Text to Your Images
Create editable text layers and use the type tool to create your own invitations and logos. |  Select from 20+ tools, including crop, select, paint and more to enhance your images. Click to enlarge. |  Access your iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums and Pictures folder with the built-in Photo Browser. Click to enlarge. | Made Exclusively for the Mac
One-click iSight support takes your picture and adds it as a layer in Pixelmator. Access your iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums and Pictures folder with the built-in Photo Browser. Supports Spotlight, ColorSync, Quick Look and many other Mac-only technologies, and takes advantage of Core Image and OpenGL. Built-in Automator actions let you quickly enhance, resize and transform images with batch processing. Supports Popular File Formats
Export to 100+ file formats including PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PICT, BMP and PDF. Also supports Adobe Photoshop files with layers. |
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 Well on the way to becoming a great image editor September 22, 2009
Andrew Otwell (Seattle, WA)
70 out of 71 found this review helpful
I've been using Photoshop for more than ten years, and I typically spend up to hours a day using it. Even though I (and every other designer I know) loves to complain about Photoshop, there really isn't a professional alternative. Even though every new release makes Photoshop feel more bloated, clunky, and complex, at the same time it's literally the only tool for many jobs.
Pixelmator is one of several new Mac-only image editing programs to try to compete. Well, I'm not sure that "compete" is the right word--it seems like Pixelmator's trying to fill the large gap between consumer-level image software like iPhoto's editing tools and Photoshop. That's a *big* gap, with plenty of room for new tools. I'm enjoying using Pixelmator for some tasks, though it's not nearly ready to replace Photoshop in my Dock. In any case, Pixelmator's clearly modeled very closely after Photoshop (its keyboard shortcuts are mapped to Photoshop's nearly identically thank goodness).
There are several genuinely impressive user interface improvements Pixelmator has over Photoshop, including the excellent gradient editor, and the lightweight info messaging that announces tool selection. You wouldn't think that a message flashing in the middle of the screen could be unobtrusive and helpful, but it is. The "Slice" tool for saving pieces of an image to various web formats works well, and previews the export quality "live". This is far better than Photoshop's Save for Web tool, a clumsily grafted-on version of what Adobe used to sell separately as ImageReady. Pixelmator's "Trim" tool is an excellent shortcut, though geared probably towards less-experienced users. The Crop tool is outstanding--an innovation where you wouldn't think there could be any: it lets you rotate the image your cropping underneath the crop area to adjust more accurately. It's hard to describe but instantly obvious.
Unfortunately the downsides of Pixelmator are what keep it from becoming a tool I'll use often. I am not a fan of the all-black, often cartoony user interface, which seems kind of kewl and idiosyncratic for its own sake, not for good UI reasons. The Pixelmator designers often can't restrain themselves from adding a needless zoomy animation where none is needed--these things get on my nerves the fiftieth or sixtieth time I see them. Type handling is simply awful, relying totally on OS X's Fonts pallete. There's no fine control of kerning, leading, or any other basic attribute of setting type; that's a gigantic hole in the product for a professional designer. Pixelmator also lacks some of Photoshop's most useful tools. For me, the things I miss most are layer effects and adjustments, which allow you to apply non-destructive changes to layers; and vector shapes, which let you draw and edit more precise shapes.
All in all though, Pixelmator is totally worth the price, which is what, 10% of the cost of Photoshop? If you're mostly doing photo editing and basic color adjustments, it's great. I think it's worth it simply to support someone competing with Adobe.
 Works fine for a clueless middle aged user who found the program easy to use September 16, 2009
Penmouse
37 out of 38 found this review helpful
I am a middle aged woman, almost a senior citizen, who did not work on a personal computer until my 30s and with little graphics software experience. I purchased and downloaded Pixelmator to my Intel Mac. I am running Leopard.
I found the software easy to download and install. No hang ups, no crashes, just download, open and drag the icon to the applications folder found on my Mac.
I then opened Pixelmator. I was in love. The program is so easy to use that I was able to create my own graphics using various pens, brushes, etc. to make my own pictures on my Mac.
I later sized the graphics using Pixelmator. This was easy too as the software allows you to choose between pixel or image size. You can also select constrain to automatically size the graphic proportionally.
You can also open and manipulate graphics using public domain or purchased images. Again, you can colorize or change image size easily with this program.
Highly recommend based on ease of download, ease of installation and ease of use.
Speed and Utility for a Bargain Price September 26, 2009
E. J Tastad (Marion, IA United States)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Test Setup:
Pixelmator 1.5 Spider (3901).
Mac Mini, 2 GHz, Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.1.
Pros:
Powerful layer editing program
Superb speed, most effects render instantly
Full Screen image editing with overlayed tool bars
Price for a layer editor with this usability
Cons:
A few glitches on occasion (one time I couldn't undo anything until I restarted the program)
Mac Only (con for Windows users, but there are probably more choices on that platform)
Bottom Line:
Bargain priced layer editing software, give yourself time to learn it and read online tutorials. Search popular video sites for: Pixelmator tutorial, or what ever you need to do in the program like: Pixelmator gradient tutorial, Pixelmator layer tutorial, etc.
What I would like to see:
A plugin to open files in Pixelmator in Lightroom.
More explanation in the directions on why you do something instead of just how you do something (like what exactly the layer blending modes are used for, why you would use a layer mask, etc).
Review:
There is a learning curve coming from an image editor/organizer like Lightroom 2 or iPhoto to a layer editing program like Pixelmator. Keep in mind that this program does a lot more than just your traditional image editing. However, Pixelmator is probably geared more towards photographs with some weakness in text formatting etc. However, my review is based around it being a photo editing program when you need more than Lightroom.
When I first jumped into the program, I found it terribly difficult to do a few things as my mind was in the Lightroom Paradigm. Everything has sliders, quick to make adjustments, and it is what I know very well. In Pixelmator it took me a bit of time to figure out how to do a few very simple things, but if you are familiar with Photoshop this should be much easier for you. Something as simple as a dodge in burn, I didn't know how to effectively use the layers to do this and was going about it all wrong. I finally searched for a tutorial and found one that explained how to make a duplicate layer, make the adjustment you want (like reduce exposure), and stick it under your main layer. Erase the main layer where you want to darken the exposure as the darker layer will show through from underneath. Very simple. What I had tried to do with no knowledge of layer editing programs, was select an area, make a layer from that, apply a filter (like gloom), and blend that layer with the other. Not so simple and complete wrong with sort of poor results. The instructions were not much help here, as they tell you how to make a new layer, but don't really tell you what to do with one. The instructions are very nice and easy to read though, and I think there is a link in the menu to some more how-to style documents/videos.
The program is fast and easy to use. I love the full screen image (edge to edge in full screen mode, just hit F), with the overlayed toolbars. This gives an awful lot of space to work on your image if you have a large monitor, and allows you to keep the toolbars near where you are working. Sometimes I do with the dialogs for the filters would open off center as they always seem to pop up right over where I am working and I have to move them, but this isn't a big deal. They do have cool special effects and are very easy to use.
Overall, I am amazed at how well this program performs for the price point especially given the price point of the computer I am running on (modest Mac Mini). It also shows how Mac OS X has come to a point where this is possible. I am sure Snow Leopard is of help here being a true 64 bit OS, and Pixelmator is built to take advantage of the graphics processing functions in the video card for extreme performance.
Great Job to the crew that made Pixelmator.
For its price and what the software provides, definitely an image editing software for the MAC worth checking out! September 25, 2009
Dennis A. Amith (kndy) (California)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
As a longtime user of Adobe Photoshop and older image editing programs such as Macromedia Fireworks and Corel Painter, I was interested in seeing how smithmicro software's "Pixelmator" would perform.
For my tests, I used an iMac 2.4 gHZ using Mac OS X 10.6.1. As many other reviews discussed the tools and GUI, I'll focus more on other functions and see how it stacks up as a budget image editing software. For the most part, installation is quite easy. Put in the CD and drag the software to your applications or desktop folder. Clicking on the application, software loaded up quickly and you are given a choice to create a new file, open a file or being using Pixelmator. Updating the software was a breeze as well.
I. OPENING DIFFERENT FILE FORMATS, MULTI-LAYERED FILES & LARGE IMAGES
The first thing I wanted to test out is how the software handled images with many layers and also images that are large.
MULTI-LAYERED IMAGES - For the test, I open a Photoshop built ad that had many layers. Ad opened up fine and I was able to access all layers on the file. I then wanted to test basic functions such as magic wand for removing white backgrounds and it worked well. Used the free transform and that worked well, moving layers around, large text... everything worked fine, no problems.
LARGE IMAGES - I pulled up our raw images which was shot at a recent concert. I was able to open up a variety of file formats, JPG, PNG, .PSD, .TIF, .GIF, .BMP, no problems whatsoever (according to the back of the box, the software can open up to 100+ file formats). Some files took a few second longer than what I get from Photoshop (but these were pretty huge files). So, overall, I was quite pleased that the software handled large images quite well.
In fact, even for PDF rasterized pages, for example a magazine rasterized in a single PDF. I wanted to see how fast it would open the PDF up and so I can select a page to open. And it opened up a heavy file, immediately. It asks which page and sure enough, it opened up immediately. With Adobe Photoshop, this sometimes would take a minute or more....this took less than 5 seconds. BUT just to be fair, in Photoshop, I tend to open up the file via 300 DPI (it typically asks what DPI you want to open it up as), whereas Pixelmator opens the file up at 72 DPI.
II. HUE & SATURATION, CURVES & SWATCHES
I tend to like experimenting with colors and adjusting the hue and saturation is important. In Photoshop, using sliders has been quite easy but with Pixelmator, they use a rotating dial and sliders. Not difficult to use and quite easy to rotate. Takes a short while to get used to it but it works.
On Adobe Photoshop, I tend to use the curve function a lot and color correction. And sure enough, Pixelmator has curves and I was able to tweak the images colors at ease.
As for swatches, you get your pick of RGB, CYMK swatches which is all the basics one would need. May it be a CYMK slider or color wheel or web-safe colors, it's all there. But for those wanting Pantone swatches, you won't find it in this software.
There is no back and forth arrow to switch from foreground or background colors but if you hit right click on it, you will see "switch colors"
III. TEXT, PAINTING & FILTERS
TEXT was easy to do. At first, I was wondering about where all the Open Type Fonts were but the software puts them way at the bottom of the font list. I typed in a large text and I'm used to inputting numbers, so for 180...at first I thought the software could only go up to 72 pts. but when you go to tool options and click on show fonts, then you can see the area where you can input size. You can easily use the multiply or overlay commands. I was trying to look for other basic commands such as "drop shadow" or "bevels" but I couldn't find it.
For basic painting, there are 20+ tools and you can import Adobe Photoshop brushes which is a major plus. The software also worked with my Wacom tablet. I'm so accustomed to using Corel Painter for digital painting but the fact that this software does have those tools, that's pretty awesome.
Filters were quite interesting as when you open it up, you get this animated string which you can move around and direct where you want the filter to take place on the image. Blur functions work great. For the most part, there are many filters that are available in this software. There are 130+ filters included.
IV. UNDOING previous changes & Other tools
Multiple undo's. I did about a dozen or so and it kept going, so that's a plus.
Testing the multiple tools, gradients, paint bucket, magic wand, eraser tool, clone stamp, blur, sharpen all seem to work well. Lasso is definitely not as intuitive as Photoshop but it works. Gradients are also quite basic. You can create your own but for the most part but it's a bit more tedious than Photoshop. But it works. For those who enjoyed Fireworks, slicing tool for images for the Web...Pixelmator also offers a pretty good slicing tool as well. I haven't fooled around with the function that deeply but it's there.
JUDGMENT CALL:
Overall, for the price of this software and what it offers is quite amazing. I was actually surprised by how quickly the software opened up heavy files that my Photoshop tends to take awhile at. For those looking for an affordable image editing program for their MAC, with what's offered, it's probably enough for basic/casual image editing users. The software works with iSight. Even for some professional work, some probably can get by with what is offered in the software. Learning curve is not difficult especially those familiar with other image editing software, especially Photoshop.
It's also important for people to know that it works great with Snow Leopard. No problems, no crashing and no slow down when other programs were opened.
A solid release that offers bang for its price! Definitely recommended for those on a budget (especially don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on Photoshop) and are looking for a solid image editing software on the Mac.
An (almost) Excellent Alternative to Photoshop. September 23, 2009
A* (New York, N.Y. United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
There are so many workable elements to Pixelmator that can't be ignored, making it a great alternative to Photoshop; among the most alluring are its simplicity and price.
The people behind Pixelmator are smart cookies. They don't try to reinvent the wheel. They take the best things about Photoshop and make them work for Mac in a way that doesn't befuddle and cause major headaches (if you have a working of Photoshop that is). You get your tools, masks, cropping tools paint, and some image filters but the real meat lies in what Pixelmator can do for your photographs.
Pixelmator can almost handle anything that Photoshop can handle and with its integration with Mac it handles them in a zip! I mean, truly fast! Large files opened quickly and without that nasty spinning beach ball.
For what it does and for its price, Pixelmator is a great bargain. But it won't replace Photoshop for those who are truly vested; editing, shortcuts, and controls are not its strong suits; those needing the more robust tools should pass, but if you're looking for great image editing on a budget with truly amazing features and speed, Pixelmator is a winner.
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