Pixelmator released today

[Kevin Callahan]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Chad Leigh wrote:

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> On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Michael Stearne wrote:
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>>> On 9/26/07, Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com> wrote:
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>>>> released today :
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pixelmator.com/
>>>
>>> I tried the demo quickly.  Very, very impressive.  Lightweight,  
>>> looks
>>> great and works a lot like Photoshop.
>>>
>>> Just yesterday I postponed doing something because I didn't want to
>>> start Photoshop.  This is going to very good for light image  
>>> editing.
>>>
>>
>> This pretty much rocks. The one photoshop feature I use a lot that  
>> pixelmator doesn't have is Save for Web. Otherwise, I can see this  
>> being an excellent alternative for 90% of the pshop work I do.
>
> Agreed  Save for Web is cool.  That is 99% of what I do with PS and  
> PSE.  I still bought a license for Pixelmator as it is pretty cool  
> and lightweight and I can do my own save for web pretty easily  
> without having the horrible PS UI  that wants to take over my whole  
> screen like a windows app.
>
> Implement some sort of save for web feature is going to be one of  
> my suggestions using the Provide Feedback option
>
> Chad
>
>>

Looks like Pixelmator has some nice automator actions that could do  
the trick such as:

- Add Effects
- Change Type of Images
- Enhance Images
- Resize Images
- Transform Images

Kevin

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