Amazon.com Product Review
Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing program that has everything you need to enhance, edit and retouch your photos. Pixelmator's powerful toolset includes selection, painting, color correction and retouching tools that easily transform and enhance your photos and images. Layer-based image editing, filters and special effects help you quickly achieve impressive imagery. Add text to your pictures, analyze colors, crop, transform, rotate or move anything in your pictures. Made for the Mac, Pixelmator takes advantage of built-in iPhoto support and one-click access to iSight. This user-friendly image editor has everything you need to achieve professional results.
Create Exceptional Photos and Stunning Images Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing program that has everything you need to enhance, edit and retouch your photos. Choose from powerful selection, painting, retouching, and color correction tools. Made for the Mac, Pixelmator takes advantage of built-in iPhoto support and one-click access to iSight. Use layer-based image editing, color management, filters and special effects to quickly achieve impressive imagery. |
Pixelmator is a user-friendly image editor that has everything you need to achieve professional results. Click to enlarge. |
Choose from 130+ filters and special effects to transform your images. Click to enlarge. |
130+ Filters and Special Effects See results in real time--choose from standard filters such as blur, sharpen and distort, as well as many unique filters like comic-style halftones, tile, kaleidoscope and thermal camera. |
Layer-Based Image Editing Stack portions of your image on top of one another and quickly create layers from photos, selections and more. You can also blend layers, change layer opacity and add layer masks to hide portions of layers. Add images as layers via drag-and-drop. |
Layer-Based Image Editing enables you to quickly create layers from photos, selections and more. Click to enlarge. |
Pixelmator offers more than 16 color correction tools for adjusting brightness, hue, saturation and more. Click to enlarge. |
Color Correction Tools 16+ color correction tools help you make quick corrections to your images with Auto Enhance, Levels and Curves. Adjust hue, saturation, exposure, brightness, contrast and more. |
Select, Paint and Retouch Tools 20+ tools, including crop, select, paint and erase help you enhance your images. You can also import and customize Adobe Photoshop Brushes, and graphics tablet support enables you to draw by hand.
Add Text to Your Images Create editable text layers and use the type tool to create your own invitations and logos. |
Select from 20+ tools, including crop, select, paint and more to enhance your images. Click to enlarge. |
Access your iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums and Pictures folder with the built-in Photo Browser. Click to enlarge. |
Made Exclusively for the Mac One-click iSight support takes your picture and adds it as a layer in Pixelmator. Access your iPhoto Library, events, albums, Smart Albums and Pictures folder with the built-in Photo Browser. Supports Spotlight, ColorSync, Quick Look and many other Mac-only technologies, and takes advantage of Core Image and OpenGL. Built-in Automator actions let you quickly enhance, resize and transform images with batch processing.
Supports Popular File Formats Export to 100+ file formats including PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PICT, BMP and PDF. Also supports Adobe Photoshop files with layers. |
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(124 customer reviews) 164 of 168 people found the following review helpful
Well on the way to becoming a great image editor,
September 22, 2009 Andrew Otwell "heyotwell" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pixelmator [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
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I've been using Photoshop for more than ten years, and I typically spend up to hours a day using it. Even though I (and every other designer I know) loves to complain about Photoshop, there really isn't a professional alternative. Even though every new release makes Photoshop feel more bloated, clunky, and complex, at the same time it's literally the only tool for many jobs.
Pixelmator is one of several new Mac-only image editing programs to try to compete. Well, I'm not sure that "compete" is the right word--it seems like Pixelmator's trying to fill the large gap between consumer-level image software like iPhoto's editing tools and Photoshop. That's a *big* gap, with plenty of room for new tools. I'm enjoying using Pixelmator for some tasks, though it's not nearly ready to replace Photoshop in my Dock. In any case, Pixelmator's clearly modeled very closely after Photoshop (its keyboard shortcuts are mapped to Photoshop's nearly identically thank goodness).
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83 of 86 people found the following review helpful
Works fine for a clueless middle aged user who found the program easy to use,
September 15, 2009 Penmouse - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pixelmator [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
I am a middle aged woman, almost a senior citizen, who did not work on a personal computer until my 30s and with little graphics software experience. I purchased and downloaded Pixelmator to my Intel Mac. I am running Leopard.
I found the software easy to download and install. No hang ups, no crashes, just download, open and drag the icon to the applications folder found on my Mac.
I then opened Pixelmator. I was in love. The program is so easy to use that I was able to create my own graphics using various pens, brushes, etc. to make my own pictures on my Mac.
I later sized the graphics using Pixelmator. This was easy too as the software allows you to choose between pixel or image size. You can also select constrain to automatically size the graphic proportionally.
You can also open and manipulate graphics using public domain or purchased images. Again, you can colorize or change image size easily with this program.
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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Speed and Utility for a Bargain Price,
September 25, 2009 This review is from: Pixelmator [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
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Test Setup:
Pixelmator 1.5 Spider (3901).
Mac Mini, 2 GHz, Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.1.
Pros:
Powerful layer editing program
Superb speed, most effects render instantly
Full Screen image editing with overlayed tool bars
Price for a layer editor with this usability
Cons:
A few glitches on occasion (one time I couldn't undo anything until I restarted the program)
Mac Only (con for Windows users, but there are probably more choices on that platform)
Bottom Line:
Bargain priced layer editing software, give yourself time to learn it and read online tutorials. Search popular video sites for: Pixelmator tutorial, or what ever you need to do in the program like: Pixelmator gradient tutorial, Pixelmator layer tutorial, etc.
What I would like to see:
A plugin to open files in Pixelmator in Lightroom.
More explanation in the directions on why you do something instead of just how...Read more