While Adobe does the same thing with their demonstrations, Pixelmator chose a VERY friendly image to showcase this feature. The lines of the stairs are pretty straight and overall it's a pretty predictable outcome. I'm not trying to take away anything from the new feature but let's not get too excited. Photoshop's "Content-aware" feature is the same thing and has it's limits as well.
True enough, though still fairly impressive. Yea, for example pick some photo of a person's face with glasses, and try to remove the glasses (or something like that) and you'll quickly see how it breaks down. But, for the first few images I picked to test it, I'd have to say I was pretty blown away.
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With pixelmator at the consumer, more user friendly end and affinity photo for more demanding stuff its looking good for an adobe free future.
I agree, as far as photo editing goes outside the 'pro' realm. But, most companies don't pick products based on what is best or the best value. And, Adobe's suite contains a bunch of other core products that many pros need. So, if you have Adobe CC anyway, which are you more likely to use?
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Pixelmator is quite good, and I find it's a fine replacement for Photoshop. It also feels more responsive and "native" to OS X than Photoshop ever did. (For what it's worth, the last version of Photoshop that I used was CS3, and I never did anything overly demanding or advanced.)
Agreed (at least what I can remember too, as I haven't used PS for a few years). That said, it's the whole bundle in CC that might win me back. I'm starting a couple podcasts, so Audition would be useful. I'd have a vector tool instead of having to buy one (i.e.: Affinity Designer, etc.). I'd have pretty much the top video editing and compositing tools (especially since Apple abandoned that market).
There is a lot of worthless garbage in there too, but even what I've mentioned above is well worth the subscription if you're a professional user.
So, I'm kind of torn... I love Pixelmator and Affinity Photo looks great too (and the price is right). But, the whole suite (and 100% compatibility) of Adobe might win me back over.
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Not quite sure I follow what youre saying. You do know that Pixelmator
already contains a full-fledged
vector-editing mode, right?
I mean I use iDraw as well, but Vectormator has existed for 2 years now.
Yes and no... there are vector tools within Pixelmator, but not having the ability to import/export is greatly limiting their usefulness for what most graphics professionals do.... let alone begin to compare vector toolsets.
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The modern software service programs just frighten my wallet!
Maybe, though Adobe did a pretty good job of this, IMO. It's easy to spread the cost for software out over time and if you use more than maybe 2 or 3 of the apps, CC is actually not a bad deal.
Who it hurts, I suppose, are really small shops that would just buy the suite and then use it for years and years without upgrading. Or, people who would just steal a copy and use it. But, I don't think these folks were ever Adobe's market in the first place.
I'm really glad to see apps like Pixelmator though, as many small shops and even people who might have stolen Adobe's apps might well buy Pixelmator. And, that helps the whole industry mature and puts gives Adobe some competition.
