Pixelmator 3.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by tnorthcutt » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

erso wrote: post #2

Note to Pixelmator folks: Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular. Perhaps that should say: Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular images. Or something.

There are several other grammatical errors or awkward sentence constructions. Pixelmator team: I think you could benefit greatly from hiring a native English speaker to comb through your website copy and fix these (admittedly small) issues. Please don't take offense at that suggestion; I honestly think it would benefit you and your business to do so.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by buzzkillr2 » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

What a fantastic application! I wish more companies operated like the Pixelmator Team

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by kawera » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

Can it save 16-bit tifs? I've searched but didn't find any mention.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by gedrap » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

antr wrote: post #39

gedrap wrote: post #38

This is probably the most successful Lithuanian IT startup (which is still based there, as far as I know). As a Lithuanian, I'm feeling really happy to see how far and awesome they got!

I've been using Pixelmator since they pushed it to the Mac App store, and all this time I thought they where German... good to know I was wrong!

That's interesting, I live in the UK and most of the people think I'm German as well :)

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by potatolicious » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

antr wrote: post #39

gedrap wrote: post #38

This is probably the most successful Lithuanian IT startup (which is still based there, as far as I know). As a Lithuanian, I'm feeling really happy to see how far and awesome they got!

I've been using Pixelmator since they pushed it to the Mac App store, and all this time I thought they where German... good to know I was wrong!

I've bought Pixelmator twice now. Once on the App Store and once before. $30 is IMO way too little to pay for an app of this quality.

Very happy to see Pixelmator continue to enjoy some well-deserved success.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by madoublet » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:50 PM UTC

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 have been moving more-and-more toward designing in code because CSS3 has replaced a lot of assets I use to create in PS. I purchased Pixelmator a few months back b/c PS was honestly too expensive for what I needed. It does take a little while to get use to all the new icons, but overall, I am pretty happy with it. It is easy to manipulate and re-size photos, and there are some nice built-in filters to quickly touch photos.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by shurcooL » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

Pixelmator is great (and I've bought it long ago), but I still have just one simple feature request:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwKIsQX...

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by weiy » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

Looks nice, but no thanks. I think I will stick with GIMP (it's free!)

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by kawera » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

kawera wrote: post #43

Can it save 16-bit tifs? I've searched but didn't find any mention.

I've found it in their forum. We'll have more to say about 16-bit support later this year when the new Mac Pro is out.

Re: Pixelmator 3.0

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Post by caycep » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 6:09 PM UTC

gedrap wrote: post #38

This is probably the most successful Lithuanian IT startup (which is still based there, as far as I know). As a Lithuanian, I'm feeling really happy to see how far and awesome they got!

OK, this belies my ignorant American self, but for some reason I got the idea in my head they were Greek and were based in Philadelphia....

Awesome to see indy Mac development in Lithuania...here's to them keeping it up. I haven't launched an Adobe product in years, in part thanks to them.