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Pixelmator and Acorn: economic, practical image editors

by Erica Sadun (May 14th, 2013)

Last week, after Adobe announced its move to a subscription-based cloud plan, our own Kelly Hodgkins asked me to look at software alternatives for some Creative Suite apps. We know that none of these apps provide a full replacement for Photoshop or Illustrator. What she asked me to do was to ...

Pixelmator 2.2 available with over 100 new features and improvements

by John-Michael Bond (May 9th, 2013)

Popular image-editing app Pixelmator has released version 2.2, which brings a slew of new features to the already powerful program. The update comes with an expanded collection of shapes, tools to manipulate them, enhanced gradient palettes and a new paint selection tool among the more than 100 ...

Consumer alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud: practical software choices

by Erica Sadun (May 7th, 2013)

Yesterday, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud, an on-line subscription based suite with $49.99 monthly charges that moves into the Creative Suite subscription space first started back in 2011. Existing customers of CS 3 to CS 5.5 and academics will pay $29.99 per month. Both Adobe and Microsoft are ...

OS X 10.8.3 fixes Pixelmator 'restarting' bug

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 21st, 2013)

In December we reported that a bug in OS X 10.8.2 would sometimes cause a user's machine to restart automatically when the user was intensively using Pixelmator. Pixelmator took the brunt of the blame for the bug, but actually the issue was caused by NVIDIA GeForce graphics card drivers and not ...

Pixelmator offers a sneak peek at version 2.2

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 12th, 2013)

Pixelmator has released a preview of a new text feature in Pixelmator 2.2 Blueberry in a short video. The new feature is called "Convert Text into Shape" and allows users to define any typed text as a shape. Users can then make stylistic changes to entire paragraphs, words or individual ...

Pixelmator's Shapes interface coming soon

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2013)

Pixelmator is one of my favorite apps on the Mac -- I've been following it for a long time, and whenever I want to do any photo editing beyond a quick resize (and sometimes even when I want to do that), I click the Pixelmator icon in my Dock. This week at Macworld/iWorld 2013, Pixelmator's ...

Daily Update for December 7, 2012

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Pixelmator announces big bug with OS X 10.8.2

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2012)

Ouch. You know it's a bad day for Pixelmator Team when they have to publicly announce a major bug in their marquee app. The bug causes some Macs to "restart when intensively using Pixelmator" -- like right when you're in the middle of a major project. The issue also causes other nice side ...

PIxelmator 2.1 offers Retina and iCloud support, more

by Mel Martin (Aug 9th, 2012)

Pixelmator has always been popular for the not-quite-ready-for-the-expense-of-Photoshop crowd. The image manipulation/retouching app for Mac is powerful, works well, and is good competition for applications like Photoshop Elements. Pixelmator 2.1 has just been released, and at a very attractive ...

Pixelmator updated to 2.0.3: Better memory management, more enhancements

by Steven Sande (Apr 24th, 2012)

Pixelmator today updated its self-named app to version 2.0.3, with a lot of improvements to the popular image editing application. Probably the biggest improvement is in the management of memory usage. Pixelmator says that most users will "see their memory footprint cut in half" which should ...

Pixelmator 2.0 released with new tools, content-awareness, Lion support

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 27th, 2011)

I ditched Photoshop for Pixelmator about a year ago, but there were a few things missing in Pixelmator which caused me to fire up Photoshop once in a while. I also recently bought Aperture in an effort to better organize and retouch photos I started taking on my new Canon Rebel. Pixelmator 2 ...

Pixelmator releases ... an iPhone game called Flapcraft

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2011)

I am a big fan of Pixelmator, the excellent image editor for the Mac, and was surprised to see that team's latest project: an iOS game called called Flapcraft, which hit the App Store today. Not surprisingly, the team used Pixelmator to create the game's look. What a clever way to show off your ...

Pixelmator 2.0 announced, coming to Mac App Store later this summer

by Steven Sande (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Today, the Pixelmator team provided a peek at the next version of their namesake image editing tool. With the code name of Chameleon, Pixelmator 2.0 is a major upgrade that is expected to ship later in the summer of 2011. Anyone who has already purchased the app via the Mac App Store for US$29 ...

Mac App Store highlights "apps for the creative home"

by Mike Schramm (Feb 11th, 2011)

Apple has set up its first highlighted section for the Mac App Store, in which it displays "apps for the creative home." There are five apps featured in each of four categories (covering things from design to music and photography), and there are some good picks in there, from Apple's own apps to ...

Pixelmator grosses $1 million in Mac App Store after 20 days

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 25th, 2011)

After just 20 days in the Mac App Store, the Pixelmator team announced that it has grossed more than $1 million through sales. When the Mac App Store launched Jan. 6, the software was made available exclusively through it. Pixelmator is currently the fourth top-grossing app in the Mac App Store. ...