Pixelmator Hits $1 Million in Revenue on Mac App Store

[Small White Car]

I thought this application already hit its peak market. I'd like to know more about the people making these purchases. It seems too impulsive.

Apple is selling over 10 million Macs per year. They claim 50% of the ones sold in stores go to first-time Mac owners.

I'm honestly confused by your comment. It's almost as if you didn't know those facts, but that can't be right. How else can you justify your statement, though?

 

[BornAgainMac]

It is a good alternative to folks that pirate Adobe PS for home use.

 

[Mattsasa]

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app store.........
pixelmator...........

 

[gnasher729]

Well, this million might be their last one. No need to purchase it twice. Most people do not need it.

Well, lilo, how is your first million doing then?

Are you really sitting on your computer and thinking - negative! negative! I have to post something negative!

 

[Blu101]

Plenty of chances to get it in a bundle with other applications. I've consider it several times but like my only bundle purchase, you never use the applications again.

Sounds to me like you just bought yourself something you don't need/use. That's your mistake.

Why spend the money? I'd be more inclined to use Toy Viewer or Irfanview over on Windows.

Yes, we all came here on a mac forum to check out a mac only app because we want to use Windows

As someone else said, there are many switchers from windows crossing over to mac, who have no idea of what apps exist or have existed for x number of years. This is just one of them. And since OS X doesn't have a native app like Paint for Windows, and iPhoto has no paint/brush tools, many will be looking for a free or low cost image editor solution as a replacement.

 

[kirky29]

I'm a big fan of Pixelmator, used it for awhile now.. Congrats to the team!

 

[mixel]

I'm really happy to see Pixelmator do well, it offers great bang for your buck.. I don't think they'll try to match or beat PS for features and I don't think they probably should! PS is crazy flexible and confuses a lot of people as a result.

There's never going to be an app that does everything.. I'd like to see some nice painting tools added to Pixelmator.

 

[dbales]

If you find yourself not using most of the features of PS and want a more responsive interface with faster rendering times then pixelmator is worth the buy. If not then stick with CS3. CS4-5 havn't really added anything worth the amount they charge for the upgrade pack imo so CS3 should be fine.

Thanks. That is what I was thinking, too.

 

[Blu101]

Question for those who already have Pixelmater:

If I'm in Pixelmator and within it, open a photo from iPhoto, edit the photo and save it - where does it save? Will the original in iPhoto be saved with the changes automatically? Or is there a manual process to then update the photo back in iPhoto?

 

[milani]

Since when is 30 dollars high priced? I think some of us are in the iOS distortion field...

 

[dhd]

Question for those who already have Pixelmater:

If I'm in Pixelmator and within it, open a photo from iPhoto, edit the photo and save it - where does it save? Will the original in iPhoto be saved with the changes automatically? Or is there a manual process to then update the photo back in iPhoto?

Just set Pixelmator (or whatever app you want/need) as external editor. If you do that from the iphoto interface it will keep track of the changes you made.

 

[Blu101]

Just set Pixelmator (or whatever app you want/need) as external editor. If you do that from the iphoto interface it will keep track of the changes you made.

Awesome - thanks!

 

[DrV]

Didn't know that gimp didn't work so well on Mac. I use it all the time on my windows machine with good results.

I have used gimp on my Mac. I do not recall it crashing a single time. gimp is powerful, highly customizable - and clumsy and has a steep learning curve.

Anyway, is there a similar program that does vector artwork?

The FOSS program for vector artwork is Inkscape. Very useful, but clumsier on Mac than on Windows or Linux, mainly due to some X11 related challenges. The user interface is Corelish, and there are a lot of very interesting features for those who want to draw photorealistic vector drawings. Again, powerful but sometimes clumsy. (And, yes, I have seen Inkscape crash many times, but the quality is improving.)

 

[Lone Deranger]

Pixelmator is the perfect example of just how good an App can be when it is written specifically for the Mac and thus gets to make full use of OSX technologies such as Cocoa, Core Image/Animation, Quartz, etc.
As opposed to a program written with multi-platform releases in mind, or worse, programs that originated on Windows and were half-heartedly ported over to the Mac.

It's amazing to see how fast Pixelmator performs on my 11.6" MBA. It runs circles around Photoshop.
The realtime filter updates are incredible, even on something intense as a heavy Gaussian Blur operation on a 6000x6000 image.

I bought Pixelmator to run on my MacBook Air after briefly considering installing Photoshop (of which I am a 17 year veteran).
My reasoning had much to do with not wanting an elephant squatting on my 128GB SSD drive. A PS CS5 install comes in at around 1GB, whereas Pixelmator's footprint is about 1/10th that.
Then there was the price. In the UK, Photoshop is about 39 times more expensive now with the new Pixelmator Appstore pricing!
And don't even get me started on Adobe's dodgy price-hike legerdemain outside of the US markets.

While Pixelmator is not as feature rich as PS, it still boasts an impressive arsenal of painting, photo manipulation, and general image editing tools.
I have no doubt that Pixelmator's developers, self proclaimed Mac-fans that they are, and especially now spurred on by increasing sales figures, will keep adding features that Photoshop refugees are asking for.

 

[fishmoose]

I always thought Apple should buy Pixelmator and make it part of iLife (it's that good) it would give them a tool that's missing from OS X and be competitive to Adobe.

Bought this on the App Store and it's truly great, they deserve their success.

 

[silentnite]

One thing we know for sure is adobe P.S. will never be that cheap.

 

[Bregalad]

Pixelmaker seems like a good app for "the rest of us" who have very basic image editing needs.

I'd like to know why anyone is buying iPhoto when it comes free with every Mac. Are there that many people who have to have the latest version even though it's almost identical to the previous one and hardly different from the one before that?

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Wow. They made Apple $300,000 in just 20 days!

Let's see; after they pay around 30% in taxes themselves, that leaves them about $300,000 too....

1/3 the money for 100% of the work. Apple and the government both have the sweeter deal I would say, getting their third for nothing.

 

[Eidorian]

Apple is selling over 10 million Macs per year. They claim 50% of the ones sold in stores go to first-time Mac owners.

I'm honestly confused by your comment. It's almost as if you didn't know those facts, but that can't be right. How else can you justify your statement, though?

Easily forgettable when you can not imagine buying another Mac again. But yes they do exist.

Well, lilo, how is your first million doing then?

Are you really sitting on your computer and thinking - negative! negative! I have to post something negative!

You are much too optimistic.

 

[Thomas2006]

Microsoft Outlook available?

Since Outlook:mac has been written from scratch using Cocoa, Microsoft should put it on the Mac App Store for people that just want it, and not the entire Office suite.

 

[weckart]

One thing we know for sure is adobe P.S. will never be that cheap.

Maybe not for the full blown edition, but I got two copies of PSE 9.0 from Amazon for £23 a pop at Xmas; not much more than Pixelmator. Not tied to the Appstore either.

 

[jav6454]

Sounds to me like you just bought yourself something you don't need/use. That's your mistake.

Where did he ever say he regrets the purchase or that he doesn't use it? He implies that's the case with many applications.

Yes, we all came here on a mac forum to check out a mac only app because we want to use Windows

As someone else said, there are many switchers from windows crossing over to mac, who have no idea of what apps exist or have existed for x number of years. This is just one of them. And since OS X doesn't have a native app like Paint for Windows, and iPhoto has no paint/brush tools, many will be looking for a free or low cost image editor solution as a replacement.

And? It's an application, he can check the Mac side and compare to the Windows side, it's a perfectly fine decision a well informed buyer would make. However, people like you just have money trees growing don't you?

There are many free apps that do it better.

 

[rmwebs]

Um...how is $29.99 a relatively high sales price MacRumors?!

Its a damn good price...this is NOT the iOS App Store.

 

[Steve Mobs]

Woah, this looks pretty comprehensive for 30 bucks! How does it compare to Photoshop?

 

[malachiman]

Wow. They made Apple $300,000 in just 20 days!

Let's see; after they pay around 30% in taxes themselves, that leaves them about $300,000 too....

1/3 the money for 100% of the work. Apple and the government both have the sweeter deal I would say, getting their third for nothing.

Great advice for you... never go into business.

Tax is on profit not revenue.