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Apple Completes Pixelmator Acquisition
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It's because Aperture never had a chance competing with Lightroom. A huge aspect of Adobe's core business (and their engineering staff) is image science and processing. Apple's is not. Day and night difference.
Glad (and very lucky) I bailed from Aperture when I did around 2009 and moved over to Lightroom. Converting the edits of many tens of thousands of edited images at this point would be impossible.
I'd pay that just to bring back Aperture 1.0
Am currently in the middle of a Pixelmator Pro trial. Tried Affinity Photo and it just was not intuitive to use - and kinda looks and feels like a Windows port. 👎
The only con with Pixelmator Pro so far is the lack of multi-monitor support. This makes for a clunky workflow, at least when compared to Pixelmator Classic. In this regard, I hope Apple adds the "pro" back into Pixelmator. 🤞🤞
The only con with Pixelmator Pro so far is the lack of multi-monitor support. This makes for a clunky workflow, at least when compared to Pixelmator Classic. In this regard, I hope Apple adds the "pro" back into Pixelmator. 🤞🤞
Once I used Photoshop, but Adobe killed with its subscription only plan. Then Pixelmator appeared and it replaced Photoshop. Now Apple is going to kill it like many apps before. Darksky was once a great app, now it is dust in the wind …
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I want to like this but at the moment, it does not appear they support the camera RAW format for my camera. Nikon Z50II just released in November. I doubt Apple will support it before summer and when they do, it will only be the lossless file, neither of the high efficiency files. I see Photomator supports HE and HE* for the Z8 and Z9 so thats good, just need to know when the Z50II is supported. Also, with access to my photo library, that will be odd to load files I cannot see in Photos just so I can see them in Photomator
FTC Takes Action Against Adobe and Executives for Hiding Fees, Preventing Consumers from Easily Cancelling Software Subscriptions
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It was a misinformed action that went nowhere. This is what happens when regulators get their brain twisted by social media campaigns by anons and scammers.
If you are a life long Adobe user you don’t fall for such stupid things. You buy the discount sub every year and you expense it. What kind of ‘creative’ doesn’t do that? A hobbyist? OK, if you’re a hobbyist buy the budget software first to learn with.
I really hate Adobe's monthly payment gouging. Now that I'm proficient with DaVinci Resolve, I'm going to try out Pixelmator and, if I like it, will finally be cancelling my Adobe subscription.
Pixelmator last year announced that it was being acquired by Apple, and today the company confirmed that the acquisition has been completed after Apple received regulatory approval. The Pixelmator for iOS, Pixelmator Pro, and Photomator apps were today updated with a new splash screen announcing the deal.
Pixelmator is a well-known image and photo editing app that competes with Photoshop and other Adobe image editing tools, while focusing on ease of use and performance. The apps are exclusive to Apple's platforms.
No changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, or Photomator apps have been made at this time. Apple could eventually integrate these apps into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, but for now they remain separate and available from the App Store.
Apple has photo editing tools available in the Photos app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but the company used to maintain a separate photo editing app called Aperture. Aperture was discontinued in 2015, and the app was removed from the Mac App Store at that time.
Article Link: Apple Completes Pixelmator Acquisition
Everyone missing Aperture: You should definitely try Nitro (by Gentlemen Coders, as far as I understand a former Aperture programmer). I had been looking for a good Lightroom alternative for years, and I didn’t know Nitro until a week ago. Really nice.
Apple should have bought Adobe a long time ago and scrapped their rip-off subscription pricing model.
Get the 50% discounted plan every winter duh.
FFS these people. We’re permanently online and yet some people don’t know companies do sales twice a year.
Imagine these expression on their faces if they saw how much Autodesk, Avid and Foundry charge.
I disagree, there's very few examples of Apple making an acquisition and leaving the acquired product as a standalone app.
It's possible they continue to charge for it, but whether or not they do I expect they will start to push some pretty strong integration between the native Photos app to make it even easier for people to manage workflows between Photos, which is more of a Lightroom competitor, and Pixelmator.
Right now, Lightroom has far more advanced editing capabilities than Photos and Pixelmator can fill that gap nicely.
Maybe they're like me. I don't do software subscriptions, ever. No exceptions.
Last thing I need is more Ai garbage shoved in my face. Hoping they don't integrate things from this app into the basic photo editor. I am glad to hear they have an adobe competitor though-- Adobe keeps jacking up subscription fees and it's getting ridiculous.
I've used Pixelmator for years, and my concern is that Apple will force people to enable AI on the entire platform to be able to run the "integrated" version. Sorta like you have to allow Spotlight to run in order to be able to search in Mail.
You really need to take off those rose tainted glasses.
"Buying Adobe" would mean buying all of the Adobe employees, which includes all of the (some say nasty) Macromedia employees from the merger. I often wonder whether or not the previously solid Adobe would ever have built the IP-stealing CC if Adobe had not been polluted by Macromedia.
I love Pixelmator, so I hope Apple honors all current licensee holders and we don’t have to pay again just for access to the app.
Hopefully, more innovations are coming to the app with deep pockets of Apple.
Hopefully, more innovations are coming to the app with deep pockets of Apple.
As a consumer of other Apple acquired pro apps, Final Cut Pro and Logic, this is fantastic news. It finally fills in the photography and design arm of Apple's creative.
The Pixelmator team have always acted as a third party extension of Apple's own creative apps team. They follow the API and UX down to the T and are early adopters of Apple's new APIs as they're announced.
I'm anticipating that Pixelmator becomes an Illustrator and Photoshop design app called Creative Pro and that Photomater a Lightroom-like app becomes Photos Pro — or if they want to tickle pro photographers' nostalgia, they bring the name "Aperture" back.
As an Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator user since the early 90s, I've already started migrating my Lightroom workflows into Photomator and will begin adopting Pixelmator today.
The Pixelmator team have always acted as a third party extension of Apple's own creative apps team. They follow the API and UX down to the T and are early adopters of Apple's new APIs as they're announced.
I'm anticipating that Pixelmator becomes an Illustrator and Photoshop design app called Creative Pro and that Photomater a Lightroom-like app becomes Photos Pro — or if they want to tickle pro photographers' nostalgia, they bring the name "Aperture" back.
As an Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator user since the early 90s, I've already started migrating my Lightroom workflows into Photomator and will begin adopting Pixelmator today.
I really miss both Lightroom and Aperture but I won't pay the extortion prices that Adobe charges for an app I only use to catalogue and retouch family photos.
I didn't even know that Photomator was a thing so I'm really interested that there's something with some level of parity with Adobe Lightroom that could make its way to our desktops sometime in the next year as a native part of MacOS.
