tiny art tool review
Sep. 27th, 2007 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashSo the much-hyped Mac-only PS clone Pixelmator finally came out.
I guess it might be kinda neat, if you're the kind of person who never multitasks.
Somewhat better brush tool response on my machine than ChocoFlop, not as snappy as Acorn. Photoshop ain't being displaced by any of these yet for me. Like ChocoFlop and Acorn, it fails to let me make layers that are nothing more than a blazingly-fast Core Graphics effect applied to everything beneath - that, I think, is going to be an OSX-only paint program's Killer Feature once someone writing these finally looks at PS's paltry handful of 'adjustment layers' and 'layer effects'. At least Pixelmator has its own swatch palette.
If I was gonna spend $20-50 on one of these OSX-only Photoshop Lites, I'd get Acorn. It's the closest to being usable in my brief experimentation with each of them. None of these know thing one about CMYK, but hell, neither does Painter. (And of course ArtRage is certainly worth $25 if you like the 'natural media' schtick.)
I guess it might be kinda neat, if you're the kind of person who never multitasks.
Somewhat better brush tool response on my machine than ChocoFlop, not as snappy as Acorn. Photoshop ain't being displaced by any of these yet for me. Like ChocoFlop and Acorn, it fails to let me make layers that are nothing more than a blazingly-fast Core Graphics effect applied to everything beneath - that, I think, is going to be an OSX-only paint program's Killer Feature once someone writing these finally looks at PS's paltry handful of 'adjustment layers' and 'layer effects'. At least Pixelmator has its own swatch palette.
If I was gonna spend $20-50 on one of these OSX-only Photoshop Lites, I'd get Acorn. It's the closest to being usable in my brief experimentation with each of them. None of these know thing one about CMYK, but hell, neither does Painter. (And of course ArtRage is certainly worth $25 if you like the 'natural media' schtick.)
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Date: 2007-09-28 01:48 am (UTC)Oh, and Safari looks very...odd in brushed metal. I installed UNO (http://gui.interacto.net/) a long time ago and for me that's the definitive OS X look. What theme are you using for the non-metal windows?
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Date: 2007-09-28 01:57 am (UTC)I'm using Good Grey via Shapeshifter. The flatness matches my art nicely. *grin*
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Date: 2007-09-29 08:44 am (UTC)