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Pixelmator Updated With Improved 16-Bit Color, Locking Layers and an All-New Repair Tool

Too Good To Be True

I watched the video. It's too good to be true. The woman they removed from the image was obviously in a separate layer.

So I tried it on one of my own pictures from about six years ago. Kids playing in a leaf pile. I removed one of the kids. Again the result was too good to be true. The Pixelmator staff has obviously gone back in time and taken a picture of the same location at the same time, but without the kids. Then they went into my photo library and carefully cut out the kids and placed them in a separate layer on top of the empty landscape. It's just a trick. No other explanation makes sense.
 
MartinAppleGuy said:
Definite substitute to Photoshop. Hate it to brake it to you though, the repair brush (while better than both 3.1 and Photoshop) is not as good as it was in the video.
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Worked wonderfully for me the two times I've used it so far.

One was a picture of my daughter playing goalkeeper - there was a family (I don't know) sitting on the grass right behind her, with her overlapping them in the picture.

It took 4-5 "swipes", but it did such a good job that when I "A/B" between the original picture and the repaired picture, the family now looks like THEY are the ones who were "Photoshopped in"!
 
I've used PS for about 15 years and was very hesitant to move over to Pixelmator. I just deleted the last version of ( PS CS6e ) that will ever bloat my computer. I had converted to Pixelmator about 2 months ago and was holding onto PS to see if there was something I couldn't live without. Nope! Pixelmator does everything I need, easier, faster and without 2 updates per day. The workflow is just a little bit different and took about a week for me to get into a routine, but now I believe I can create/edit/mod even faster than with PS.

I'm finally found out what PS has that Pixelmator doesn't: about two more zeros in the price per seat.
 
Southshore said:
That's where the disappearing parents come in.

Who else was lucky enough to get this at $14.99? The price has bounced up and down over the past year.
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Me, plus some some discounted iTunes cards.

Definitely got my use out of it.
 
furi0usbee said:
For all the folks who say this isn't on par with Photoshop. For right now, they are right. But PS had how many decades headstart? However, within the next 3-5 years, with active development, Pixelmator will do probably 95% of what PS does for advanced graphics artists/designers. At some point, they could easily surpass PS. I've been using Pixelmator after I dumped PS and have never looked back. Of course, it hurt at first. I missed the pen tool, then Pixelmator got that. And slowly but surely they have been adding great features that PS users have come to expect for a long time.

For the general public, Pixelmator is all you will ever need in terms of a graphics/editing program. But for the advanced users, it's been taking steps to bring the into the fold as well.

This app easily could sell for $99, but I like how they are wanting to build a customer base by not going Adobe all over their customers and bleeding them dry.
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Does Pixelmator have separate adjustment layers yet?
 

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With each update I find myself needing Photoshop less and less. A lot of Pixelmators tools are far superior to Photoshops (real time gradients, vector tools, generators, their filters).

Now that I have Mari for texturing 3D models Photoshop doesn't get used much by me.

I do use Photoshops lens blur filter with a depth map a lot though and Photoshop has (albeit extremely limited) 32 bit support.
 
Unfortunately I still sit in the Photoshop camp. Pixelmator as of today is not even close. I think it is less about the actual toolkit (PM has a lot of functionality in it) and more about how you use the toolkit. PM's interface is kludgy and poorly optimised. I try to create new workflows in PM and it is haphazard and difficult. To be taken seriously as a PS replacement, PM needs to put some effort and thought into a U/I and tool chain that is consistent and reliable.

I did purchase Pixelmator for the same reason as I purchased Sketch 2 (and Sketch 3). To support development of an application that could perhaps replace a bloated legacy Adobe product for me.

However, I still subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud and still have Photoshop and Illustrator installed. (Honestly, Adobe has done a great job making CC a compelling package at a reasonable price.)
 
Awesome to see their continuing development. I find I only have to use Photoshop for our photography work now, & when I take the time to learn PhaseOne's CaptureOne, it'll be goodbye Adobe.

I'd really love to see an iOS side of Pixelmator with a decent large-file management concept.


...but not if it takes dev time away from the desktop version.
 
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