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Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by richbradshaw »

uptown wrote: post #35
apierre wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Sketch would be more suitable for web design.

Is Sketch a suitable replacement for Illustrator? I've been trying to find the right application to replace Illustrator for my very-infrequent needs which can't justify Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription pricing.

We use Sketch + iDraw. Both are not Illustrator, but they deal well with the vector stuff we need. (I'm a dev, not designer, so don't really know exactly what's going on, but we migrated from PS + FW to these tools over a couple of years).

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by uptown »

apierre wrote: post #40
uptown wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Sketch a suitable replacement for Illustrator? I've been trying to find the right application to replace Illustrator for my very-infrequent needs which can't justify Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription pricing.

It depends on your infrequent needs. Are you using advanced Illustrator features? I also cannot justify a subscription to Adobe CC and try to use Sketch as a Fireworks/Photoshop alternative.

I'm definitely not using the advanced Illustrator features. The one limiting factor I've found with Sketch is importing existing .AI files. Seems like I'm unable to ungroup the various elements of a file to work with.

I'm a pretty heavy Photoshop user, so I'll probably take advantage of their photography offer for $10/month which is easily justifiable:

https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by seivan »

crazygringo wrote: post #26

Has anyone tried using this for web design? Any idea how it compares to Photoshop in that regard? (Obviously Photoshop is not great for web design, but it's still the de-facto standard...)

I use it for iOS design. It beats Sketch and Photoshop.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by Geee »

Wow, layer styles! This was the only major thing missing compared to Photoshop. Everything else was already far better than Photoshop for my use.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by demallien »

devindotcom wrote: post #57
mythz wrote: post #53

Pixemlator is positively awesome, one of the highest quality + polished native apps I've used, at insane value! It quickly became my primary graphics editor of choice. Though it's weird that I bought a copy years ago and am still getting free upgrades? I'd happily pay for an upgrade again.

I'm glad others like it, but I find it a massive pain every time I use it. A million things seem the opposite way than they should be to me. I really, really wish there were more all-purpose lightweight image editors on OS X so I could get away from it. I suppose it's high time I gave Gimp another shot...

Have you tried Acorn?

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by antimatter »

devindotcom wrote: post #57
mythz wrote: post #53

Pixemlator is positively awesome, one of the highest quality + polished native apps I've used, at insane value! It quickly became my primary graphics editor of choice. Though it's weird that I bought a copy years ago and am still getting free upgrades? I'd happily pay for an upgrade again.

I'm glad others like it, but I find it a massive pain every time I use it. A million things seem the opposite way than they should be to me. I really, really wish there were more all-purpose lightweight image editors on OS X so I could get away from it. I suppose it's high time I gave Gimp another shot...

Have you tried Acorn? http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by rbritton »

uptown wrote: post #62
apierre wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on your infrequent needs. Are you using advanced Illustrator features? I also cannot justify a subscription to Adobe CC and try to use Sketch as a Fireworks/Photoshop alternative.

I'm definitely not using the advanced Illustrator features. The one limiting factor I've found with Sketch is importing existing .AI files. Seems like I'm unable to ungroup the various elements of a file to work with. I'm a pretty heavy Photoshop user, so I'll probably take advantage of their photography offer for $10/month which is easily justifiable: https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom

The latest version of Sketch pretty reliably accepts clipboard input from Illustrator. It's not as nice as being able to import .ai files directly, but at least it's a hint of where they might be heading.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

vilius wrote: post #54

Remember "Google buys Sparrow"? I wonder if we'll see "Adobe buys Pixelmator" in the near future.

I’d rather it not be acquired, but if it were, I’d much rather that it be acquired by Apple. That company doesn’t currently have a full-fledged image editor in its software lineup and probably wouldn’t cancel or cripple the product. As Adobe already ships several full-fledged image editing tools, I don’t have much faith they would leave this product intact.

I use Adobe products for much of my day, but I still hate them for what they did to GoLive CyberStudio.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by jasonkester »

Did anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab, thinking it was broken before coming back here to discover that it was just a full-page screenshot of a desktop app?

I'd never heard of Pixelmator, so I made the natural assumption from what came up on screen that it was some form of web-based photoshop thing.

But it's not. And there's nothing but a screenshot above the fold. So it just looks broken.

I wonder how many potential customers they're bouncing this way.

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