Pixelmator update...

Categories: artwork, books, and-another-thing

Tags: Apple fanboy, Pixelmator, Artwork, and another thing

Date: 23 April 2009 08:10:41

Big fan of art software - as you know - and some packages more than others. Photoshop I use for when I'm teaching but it's not the best photo manip package out there (well, in terms of muscle and wealth of features it possibly is - everything really is under one box but like most supertankers it's not that easy to steer). Pixelmator gets the nod from me purely because it's nippy and a joy to use.

So I was very pleased to be asked if one of my pictures could be used in the new Pixelmator manual which was released on tuesday/wednesday alongside the 1.4.1 update. Truth be told the update is mainly for bug fixes and only includes one more filter to play with - noise - but a new iteration is always fun to play with and seeing my pic blown up over a whole page was tres exciting :) Not overly sure it was called leaves though - I thought I'd names it Pixeltree - but whatever and whichever was a pleasant surprise to see it in there. I've been mulling over doing this and a couple of other images as podcast/vodcast type things (we're looking into it as a dept at college so have been wanting to have a crack at it, especially as Boinx came with the latest Macheist and is calling out for a playthrough. We'll see... Depends what time offers.

Image below. Click on the pic to go to the PIxelmator website. If you're after an inexpensive photo manipulation package for the Mac platform it gets high recommendation from me, especially pge 63 of the manual ;P