Pixelmator

[Justin]

Morning all,

I'm pretty much ready to take the plunge now into a MacBook of some sort, but I want to have a decent Image Editting software with it. I'm currently using Photoshop on my laptop which does me fine. I'm not wanting to pay hundreds for Phtoshop though.

Went into Apple this week and had a good play with Aperture, but TBH I didn't think it was very good. It seems its more of a basic edit/organising program? Anyways, has anyone used Pixelmator? How does it differ from Photoshop?

TIA

 

[Rob182]

I have not used Pixelmator but i got have Photoshop elements for mac and fine this is very good.

I am not a big photoshop user but elements is very powerful too. Maybe worth trying the free demo?

 

[dunganick]

Try Lightroom 3.

You wont find processing software capable of editing to the levels of photoshop, thats not their intended use.

If you want to quickly adjust contrast, hue, saturation, noise control/sharpening, exposure, cropping, adding and editing metadata etc.. then Lightroom and Aperture will allow you to do so much faster than photoshop.

 

[Justin]

Ok thanks. I'll maybe try Lightroom, or Elements.

Aperture just didn't seem to have half the things I normally use

 

[sn00p]

Aperture and Lightroom are equivalents, aperture and photoshop are not comparable.

Pixelmator is a really decent piece of software.