Pixelmator releases version 1.1.2

Hey Mike I bought Pixelmator, Appzapper and Cha-Ching before Macheist 2 then bought the Macheist bundle for Vector Designer and a few other apps. Now I have an extra copy of the above 3 that I need to unload and trying to figure out the best way to unload it them. How about a Tuaw giveaway or something? I've already asked the companies in question how to transfer the license(s) still waiting...

Black menu icons on a transparent black background - now that's good UI design right there...

I got it as part of the heist bundle, but parts of the UI feel too much like a bad photoshop rip-off without anything to differentiate the product.

1.1.2 for the iPhone :p

If all you need to do is resize and crop, get ImageWell.

As for Pixelmator, I really want to love it, but it's just not there yet. It appears that more effort has been made on a slick UI than on actual functionality. It's buggy and missing critical features. Why would I pay so much for what is obviously beta-level software?

If you can't stand the GIMP and don't want to shell out for, or don't need the complexity of Photoshop, then Pixelmator alternatives include Acron and DrawIt. The following reviews are helpful too:

* http://jonwhipple.com/blog/2007/10/29/image-is-everything/
* http://www.macworld.com/article/60264/2007/09/pixelmator.html

Very slick interface, very buggy program. I've rarely gone for more than a minute without hitting a glitch of some sort. Most recently (on 1.1.2), I created a blank document, and then deleted the white background from the default layer. I got an error message saying that my scratch disk was almost full, even though my main drive has 31 GBs free (I don't have ANY drives connected with few than 10 GBs free).

Then, after I ignored the warning, I drew a little shape and tried to rotate it. At first, it put the transformation handles in the corners of my document, but after I canceled and tried it again, it correctly put the handles on the bounding box of my shape. Then, when I tried to rotate my image, it jumped up and to the right (although it did rotate it properly). This is a reproducible error, found in a VERY basic function.

My verdict is that this software, as handsome as it looks, is simply not ready for prime time.

I'm waiting for text alignment options. Aside from that, it's a pretty slick program.

Pixelmator may not be as full-featured as PS, but it's not as clunky as the GIMP, and has been a really great app for my needs (photo touchups and web graphics). There does not seem to be a huge community around it yet, but hopefully one will grow (especially with a large influx of users from MH2).

Is that Leopard? Is that ShapeShifter? Or is that just the program's UI?

I also got this as part of MacHeist, and have found it to be fairly buggy. It's been crashing and/or locking up on me a fair bit. This is being used with 10.5.1.

Biggest problem is that often when I hit "save" it locks up and crashes, and totally defeats any work I've done.

Hopefully this patch will fix that. Otherwise it seems like a fine program, but it's one of the buggier apps I've encountered in recent memory.