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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: The View on August 17, 2007, 08:44:30 pm

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: The View on August 17, 2007, 08:44:30 pm

I found this Photoshop competitor on the web.

Pixelmator.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/09/tuaw-exclus...pth-screencast/ (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/09/tuaw-exclusive-pixelmator-in-depth-screencast/)

This is a short video about the app, and some info.

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: Mark D Segal on August 17, 2007, 09:31:57 pm

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I found this Photoshop competitor on the web.

Pixelmator.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/09/tuaw-exclus...pth-screencast/ (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/09/tuaw-exclusive-pixelmator-in-depth-screencast/)

This is a short video about the app, and some info.
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Only for Mac.

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: francois on August 18, 2007, 06:00:14 am

I wouldn't call Pixelmator a Photoshop competitor. They are simply not in the same league (features & price). As far as I know, Pixelmator is based on Apple's Core Image framework. You can get a pretty good idea of Core Image functionnality if you have the developer tools installed and play a bit with FunHouse (Developer>Examples>Quatrz>Core Image) application. Core Image is GPU dependant so you'll need a good video card to get decent speed.

We'll get a clearer idea of Pixelmator once it's released...

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: The View on August 19, 2007, 02:59:55 am

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I wouldn't call Pixelmator a Photoshop competitor. They are simply not in the same league (features & price). As far as I know, Pixelmator is based on Apple's Core Image framework. You can get a pretty good idea of Core Image functionnality if you have the developer tools installed and play a bit with FunHouse (Developer>Examples>Quatrz>Core Image) application. Core Image is GPU dependant so you'll need a good video card to get decent speed.

We'll get a clearer idea of Pixelmator once it's released...
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The thing is, that I need some application to design my promotional cards. So far I only have the option of getting pages.

Photoshop's price of 1000$ and the learning curve (I need them now, not in a month) makes it impossible to use that application.

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: francois on August 19, 2007, 03:20:20 am

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The thing is, that I need some application to design my promotional cards. So far I only have the option of getting pages.

Photoshop's price of 1000$ and the learning curve (I need them now, not in a month) makes it impossible to use that application.
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Have you tried something like Graphic Converter ([a href=\"http://lemkesoft.com/]here[/url])? Or you could try LiveQuartz (here (http://www.rhapsoft.com/)). Like PixelMator, it also draws much of its functions from Apple's Core Image framework.

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: The View on August 20, 2007, 04:26:21 am

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Have you tried something like Graphic Converter (here (http://lemkesoft.com/))? Or you could try LiveQuartz (here (http://www.rhapsoft.com/)). Like PixelMator, it also draws much of its functions from Apple's Core Image framework.
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Thanks, Francois. Can I actually design postcards with these applications? Can they do CMYK conversions?

Title: Has anybody here heard of Pixelmator?
Post by: francois on August 20, 2007, 04:50:03 am

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Can I actually design postcards with these applications? Can they do CMYK conversions?

I think that you can probably design postcards with these products but I doubt that any of these applications can output CMYK files. LiveQuartz is free and GraphicConverter works as a full-feature demo so you might want to try. I haven't seen if PixelMator supports CMYK conversion.

You could also try to download Caffeine Software applications (here (http://www.caffeinesoft.com/)). The company is dead but its software is still available for download. TIFFAny might offer what you need but, as far as I remember, the interface is weird and non-intuitive and I never had the nerves to try for more than a couple of minutes.