Pixelmator 2.0 For Photographers?

22 Nov Leave a Comment Filed Under: Opinion, Photography

With the upgraded release of Pixelmator 2.0, its time to update my pre­vious Pixelmator For Photographers? article.

When I wrote that article, I thought there were a few key things missing for photographers:

  • High pass filter
  • Healing brush or patch tool
  • Adjustment layers
  • 16-bit image processing
  • There is only rudi­men­tary local­ized sharpening
  • Huge sup­port com­mu­nity and resources

Version 2.0 has closed the gap some­what by adding:

  • A healing brush
  • 16-bit image processing

And as extras, we now have:

  • Content aware fill (although it’s not as strong an imple­men­ta­tion as in Photoshop yet)
  • Vector tools
  • Dodge and burn tools
  • Full Mac OS X 10.7 Lion studlyness
  • A $29.99 price on the Mac App Store

I still don’t think Pixelmator is ready as a Photoshop or Photoshop Elements replace­ment, but at thirty bucks, it covers a lot of ground. I have it and use it for light duty image editing.

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