Tag: PIXELMATOR

Pixelmator, the Mac-only image editing software that's often pegged as a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop, is to become a Mac App Store-exclusive title. Pixelmator has a great number of dedicated fans, since it does almost everything Photoshop can, but for a fraction of the price. The app's developers have announced how the transition to the Mac App Store is going to happen. Unfortunately, ...

Google recently announced the WebP image format boasting 40% greater image compression over JPEG and JPEG2000, and just this morning we covered a plug-in that brings browser support for the fledgling standard. Now Pixelmator, the slick Mac image editing suite that we've covered several times before, has added "the world's first" WebP compatibility into its armory. In the words of the Pixelmator ...

Hot on the heels of stylish Mac OS X image editor Pixelmator hitting version 1.5, Acorn - the simple (yet powerful) image editor from Flying Meat software has reached version 2.0. This all-new release is one of the first applications we've seen to require Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and comes a tonne of new features including: layer-based screenshot capture; RAW image support; layer groups; ...

We've covered slick Mac OS X Photoshop chaser Pixelmator here before at Download Squad, and earlier in the week version 1.5 of the application shipped. There's plenty of new changes in this update, however some of my favourites include an all-new (and long-overdue) Save for Web option, a slicing tool for creating images for Web sites, Send to iPhoto and Mail options, and all-important Mac OS ...

Pixelmator has earned a following by doing the tasks most people use Photoshop for, but doing them much cheaper. That's truer than it's ever been in the new version 1.4, which adds a new painting engine, new brushes, and support for Photoshop brush formats. If you're a professional photographer, Photoshop CS4 might be worth $700 to you, but if you're someone who just needs powerful drawing and ...

We've not mentioned Pixelmator before, but our colleagues over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) have. Pixelmator is arguably one of the intriguing looking Mac applications in a while, and whilst the user interface looks great, so does the feature list. Layer-based editing, an array of selection, painting and editing tools, real-time filters and a metric ton of file formats with which it's ...