Software to Watch: Pixelmator
If you are a Mac user and don’t want to fork over a ton of money for Photoshop CS3, I have some good news. Pixelmator (unreleased) is a true Mac OS X image editing software due out for public beta at the end of July. The software features an unbelievable UI (probably influenced by the HUD in Aperture from the looks of it) and is set to be priced at a mere $59 US! My source for the pricing and public beta release is an interview with the 2 developers [Salius and Aidas Dailide] behind the project over at wphj blog.
Not only is Pixelmator priced to please the masses, it boasts a wide variety of “Photoshop-like” features including batching, a ton of editing and retouching tools, iSight and iPhoto integration, just to name a few. The Dailide Brothers claim that Pixelmator is not meant to be a Photoshop rival at this point. I would say this little app has definitely caught my attention and I’m gonna check out the public beta for sure. Why? Well, yes I already have Photoshop CS3 but Pixelmator is built around OS X and claims to be a true image editor built for the Mac. I’m curious to see how the performance pans out, and the overall user experience.
If you head on over to the Pixelmator website, you can sign up for email updates to keep on top the release dates, and read more about the features of the soon-to-be-released software, look at screenshots, get tech-specs, and more.
I just can’t to try it ;) Anyhow, I really hope Pixelmator will absolutely bring n e w sphere from any former graphic softwares. Awsome article..
VERY cool.
Let us know what you think when you used it a bit…
this looks great, can’t wait to try it out. Despite how happy I am with Photoshop there is much needed competition in this area and I’ll be among the first to try something new.
Brilliant! I just can’t afford programs like Photoshop for personal use, so it’s great to see some top-quality but affordable apps like Pixelmator and Coda appearing. I’ll definitely be giving this one a try.
Want it under Windows! But i’m affraid it is not possible… :D
wow, for the price it looks amazing, but will it offer the same image egiting effects or is it more towards photos than photomanipulation?!
There is another similiar software, called PIXEL. Check out their webpage – it’s available in every OS and costs similiar price: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12
Looks interesting. I’ll keep an eye on it as well.
Not really related, but when I click on your link to their site in the third paragraph it comes up as :
http://www.bittbox.com/news/software-to-watch-pixelmator/www.pixelmator.com
I knew to clear out everything before http://www.pixelmator.com, but I thought you might want to know.
Bitt, tell the truth now. Have you been reading my blog?
I just blogged about this the other day :)
Seems like a good alternative to PS- I mean cmon. The CS3 sweet is cool bu it’s really expensive for freelancers and those not backed up by a corporate credit card.
PS- check out MySkitch.com
Glad you liked my interview!
Hope everyone looked around my blog a bit.
Thanks Collin,
Link fixed (forgot the http://)
~Bitt
Well iI’ve for one have been waiting a long time for this, but on the second hand, i hope those guys makes a new vektor program too.. Illustrator is just too buggy.
It always pleases me to see Mac users get all the cool gadgets.
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This looks incredibly colorful and compelling, and the price could put it in a category where few other faves of mine stand, like ArtRage (which is for Mac and PC yet still boasts an excellent cross-platform UI). Thanx for posting about this, bitt!
looks dam nice software man. i really envy people who can use mac. i am an indian and here people are more interesdted in windows and so i dnt have a choice other than that, but i am a die hard fan of Mac. and as an animator i know what speciality an Mac PC has over windows adn with this software you make me feel more jelous. anyways amazing softwares. looks are great, will follow up reviews about the software.
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They’re no longer planning on releasing a public beta… :(
“…if we release a public beta, we think our mailboxes would be more than full; we would get a lot of feedback, feature requests, even blames. While Pixelmator is not finished and has bugs, we would like to concentrate just on improving the application. That we would do better, faster, and without chaos with a small group of people (about 2000 plus MacHeist promo purchasers).”
For windows check out Serif’s software PhotoPlus for photos and I love DrawPlus (vector art) for nearly everthing. serif.com http://www.serif.com/
Looking forward to demoing this one, looks like it might be cool. I am surprised it doesn’t have more buzz in the Mac shareware/software community. They hyped the crap out of that Disco CD buringin aaplication – and who burns CDs anymore? Image editing though, who doesn’t, or doesn’t want to?
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It’s the first time I hear about these software…
But I’ll be very happy to start to use it!!!
;) I hope to win… :P
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