Pixemlator is positively awesome, one of the highest quality + polished native apps I've used, at insane value! It quickly became my primary graphics editor of choice.<p>Though it's weird that I bought a copy years ago and am still getting free upgrades? I'd happily pay for an upgrade again.
This is probably the most successful Lithuanian IT startup (which is still based there, as far as I know). As a Lithuanian, I'm feeling really happy to see how far and awesome they got!
I haven't downloaded v3 yet, but I love using Pixelmator for quick edits and tweaks to images. It loads much faster on my MacBook Air than Photoshop, and I've found the learning curve to be much lower too. All while having 80% of the features from Photoshop; which for my basic needs is 98% of everything I'll do.<p>Version 3 looks like a huge win for customers, really excited to be grabbing the update for free from the App Store. Although honestly, I'd pay for it again at this point.
Vectormator is awesome, but still can't export to either EPS or SVG.<p>I'm hoping they add it soon - SnapSVG, the Raphael replacement, supports animating SVGs created in other apps: <a href="http://snapsvg.io/" rel="nofollow">http://snapsvg.io/</a>
Can anybody spread some light on the business model they are trying to follow? I know they sell software, but with a single software for $29 and few employees. They need to sell quite a few licenses to make it.<p>I know its an ignorant statement, but can anybody explain it to me.
Did anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab, thinking it was broken before coming back here to discover that it was just a full-page screenshot of a desktop app?<p>I'd never heard of Pixelmator, so I made the natural assumption from what came up on screen that it was some form of web-based photoshop thing.<p>But it's not. And there's nothing but a screenshot above the fold. So it just looks broken.<p>I wonder how many potential customers they're bouncing this way.
It would be nice if they made it cross-platform, like on Linux/Windows and even Android/iOS eventually. It might give Adobe a run for their money.
Wow, I just checked all the tutorial videos. I've never seen such delightful Demos in my life, makes me want to buy the thing. I wonder how effective would it be to create UI's for Mobile apps in Pixelmator, I'm donwloading the Trial.
Looks like the v3 update still doesn't support NetPBM files (.pgm, .ppm, etc) - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format</a><p>A much earlier version did support this common file format, but for some strange reason it was removed in 2.x.<p>A pgm/ppm file is a wonderfully simple format - it is basically a simple textual header followed by a binary dump of the image data. So it is trivially easy to parse and load or save. It is for this reason that it is so useful, for example when working on image processing algorithms, it is so convenient to export test data, intermediate results and so forth.<p>I hope they will (re-)add support for pgm/ppm files soon. If you think this would be useful too, please vote on the support site.
Note to Pixelmator folks:<p><pre><code> Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular.
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Perhaps that should say:<p><pre><code> Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular images.
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Or something.
I like the clever use of css-based animations on the marketing site. The Invision feature tour (<a href="http://www.invisionapp.com/tour" rel="nofollow">http://www.invisionapp.com/tour</a>) does a great job of this as well. It probably goes unnoticed by the majority of visitors, but I think it communicates great design and attention to detail in a very subtle way. Hats off to the designers and marketing team that built a great site to get the message out.
Has anyone tried using this for web design? Any idea how it compares to Photoshop in that regard?<p>(Obviously Photoshop is not great for web design, but it's still the de-facto standard...)
Pixelmator is great (and I've bought it long ago), but I still have just one simple feature request:<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwKIsQXpSmsJ:support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D4%26t%3D8651+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwKIsQX...</a>
My first thought when on the iTunes web page of Pixelmator: "$29.99, wow this is nothing for that many features"<p>My second thought when on the App Store Page of Pixelmator: "Update [for free since I bought yrs ago Pixelmator]": WTF these guys are awesome