Pixelmator hits 1.0

Another lacking feature is the curves adjustment. Was one of the first things I noticed at my first look (http://mediakirsch.com/blog/2007/09/26/pixelmator-first-look-at-the-final-version). And yes, I, too, miss rulers and snapping palettes. I hope it will be added, that could convine me to buy Pixelmator.

I know I'm late to the party here, but I finally got to installing and testing a bit. I like it. It's like on older, simpler version of Photoshop, which I think is great (I still use CS1 and 8.0). I really, REALLY wish I could turn off the palette transparency, though. And where is CMYK? Kinda important (i.e. 100% necessary) in my work.

Last thought: How does this not run afoul of dozens...hundreds of Adobe patents?

Took it for a quick spin, Yep its fast even on my PPC Mini. Love the UI and the use of layers. It was really easy to drag in an image, add text, do some cropping and test out some of the blending modes. It reminds me of Fireworks as far as functionality only much nice UI and as other folks have pointed out its really fast. I was expecting a bit more filters and I'm feeling that I need some kind of tutorial because it seems that there is a lot I can do here but don't know to at this point.

I loaded a file I was working on yesterday and noticed that the exact same file is more then twice the size in PXM then in PSD. 3.5 MB vs 1.2 MB. Hopefully this gets worked out.

There is a lot missing or not acting like it should but its crazy fast... i mean really... amazing...

1.0 has no ruler. User error? At least I can't find it in Help either. To me, that's a pretty big missing feature.

Wow....I'm surprised I didn't get an email or something for a notification of this since I signed up a while ago at their website. I saw the first news of it here!

Finally... I've waited for this for a while now and so far I like what I'm seeing. I took it for a quick spin and here are my €0.02:

+ this thing is lightning fast. I could probably launch it and do a resize+crop+save in less time than it takes for PS CS3 to load on my macbook.
+ seemingly pretty loaded with features, considering the very affordable price.
+ did I mention how fast it is?

- the UI, while good looking, is a tad bit too much form over function for my liking. I found the half-transparent palettes to be pretty hard to read against my wallpaper. The main toolbar icons also need more contrast, somehow.
- the palettes need to be able to snap together.
- when you open a larger image, the window fills the entire screen including the space where the toolbox and palettes are. This leads to a lot of frustrating clicking and dragging before you've got the workspace arranged so the palettes and the image window don't overlap each other. This needs to be fixed, imo.

quandmeme: As someone who's never owned (or used) Photoshop, I'm hardly in a position to review it - that said, I do find it very easy to use.

Thanks,

Nik

If you download from their website, when you open it up after installation it give you an option to try it for 30 days. I think that's a pretty generous trial period.