So what's happening with Pixelmator and Photomator?

[cjsuk]

I'm a regular Pixelmator user, mostly because I can never remember how to use Photoshop and it's good enough for what I need to do.

However I have been holding out for a decent Photomator release for a couple of years now with an objective to use it for light edits and library management instead of Lightroom. It's nearly good enough. But in the last 6 months since the apple acquisition, the change log has gone dead with updates only.

Wailing into the aether here but please can someone say or do something because I'm slowly resigning myself to be an Adobe stooge forever at the moment.

 

[whitestar27]

Apple bought Pixelmator just as I was evaluating it for a potential Adobe replacement. Unfortunately the missing features that were on their roadmap which I don't think we will see plus the generally dire state of Apple's RAW engine that Photomator uses, has made me go back to Adobe.

Even if Apple does integrate it's features into Photos or a new application, I wouldn't use it as Apple's RAW engine (if I'm correct in my research) has no support for lens profiles. By comparison, files from my DSLR processed with DXO or ACR are far sharper, show way more details and correct for lens distortion. Files processed with the Apple engine look subpar so I wouldn't use it now I know the difference.