Filed under: Design, Photo, Macintosh, Productivity
Pixelmator 1.4 adds new paint engine
by Jay Hathaway Feb 20th 2009 at 9:00AM
With Pixelmator's existing tablet support, and the new brush customization features, you should be able to use Pixelmator for just about any drawing task. It's compatible with practically every image format, and has lots of intuitive little shortcuts that make it behave the way you'd expect from a good Mac app. The main gripe I've seen from commenters on the Pixelmator blog is the lack of a Photoshop-like "save for web" feature. Word on the street is that it will implemented in the next version, but that one feature should hardly deter you from checking out this great app.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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blogward said 9:37AM on 2-20-2009
Reminds me of the Onion headline - Man Buys PhotoShop!
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Insomnic said 9:41AM on 2-20-2009
I've been using the program for awhile now and I've been very happy with it as a replacement for Photoshop (I'm an intermediate Photoshop user). The price makes it very worth it by comparison.
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Jordan said 10:33AM on 2-20-2009
This is for Mac OSX only, that wasn't clear in the article.
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Jay Hathaway said 5:42PM on 2-20-2009
Sorry. I did tag it Macintosh, but I should have put something in the article, too.
sdfsdfsdf said 5:42PM on 2-20-2009
Errm... this is for Mac. How is it supposed to be useful?
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Seraphiel said 3:53AM on 2-21-2009
Don't forget the Pixelmator Tutorials video podcast!
They are available on http://pixelmatorpodcast.com
and on iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=284768359
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JRH said 1:39PM on 2-21-2009
Or you could just use the GIMP, which is 100% free, easy to use, very customizable, and becoming more and more equal to Photoshop with every new version.
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Quikboy said 2:29PM on 2-22-2009
How hard is it to make a Windows version?
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lars said 6:33PM on 2-22-2009
For windows, try Paint.NET and/or GimpShop :)
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