Pixelmator Pro

[Craig Seeman]

So I guess the original Pixelmator becomes the equivalent of Photoshop Elements or maybe they’ll let it die.

I wonder what portion of the market looking to leave PhotoShop hasn’t already moved to Affinity Photo (and Designer as well) especially since it’s cross platform.

I guess Pixelmator users will move to Pixelmator Pro.

Of course maybe they have a super useful killer feature that Affinity doesn’t have.
Someone will have to do a head to head comparison.

Over time it means compatibility with client sent files might become more challenging.

It’s good to see quality competition for Adobe’s market.
I believe Affinity is going to come out with an InDesign competitor next year.

[Warren Eig]

I second Affinity Photo.

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[Oliver Peters]

Pixelmator Pro requires HS. I presume Pixelmator will continue to run on earlier OS versions. Unlike Affinity (which is also great), Pixelmator Pro seems to be designed around specific macOS technologies.

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[Michael Gissing]

I’m using my Ursa Mini 4.6 to do all my photography at the moment so Resolve is my tool to extract processed stills and if I can get my head around Fusion a bit better, they both make incredibly powerful free cross platform image processors. I wonder if RAW processing of Canon Sony etc stills cameras might turn up in either of those tools.

This sure looks like a viable alternative to Photoshop, especially as I am on the CS6 version. Shame in this day and age it isn’t cross platform, especially given the neighboring thread about Mac hardware vs PC

[Craig Seeman]

[Michael Gissing] “Shame in this day and age it isn’t cross platform, especially given the neighboring thread about Mac hardware vs PC”

Which is why Affinity Photo has a big edge IMHO. You should give it a look.

[Craig Seeman]

[Oliver Peters] “Pixelmator Pro seems to be designed around specific macOS technologies.”

I was under the impression so is Affinity Photo. They were originally Mac only and, I believe stated, they were using Mac specific technologies that PhotoShop wasn’t. They had mentioned the challenges in trying to match features and performance when they were working on the Windows version.

[Bret Williams]

[Craig Seeman] “I wonder what portion of the market looking to leave PhotoShop hasn’t already moved to Affinity Photo (and Designer as well) especially since it’s cross platform. “

I still wonder if Affinity’s long game might be to be bought by Apple. The markets they’re going after are still untouched by Apple. Plus Apple would get to kill something that’s popular on the PC side and they love to do that.

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[Craig Seeman]

[Bret Williams] ” Plus Apple would get to kill something that’s popular on the PC side and they love to do that.”

In this case I’m not sure if it would make sense (purchase and kill the Windows version). That would only make sense if the end user doesn’t have good exit strategy options. In this case they’d simply move back to Photoshop.

With Affinity, I think they’re offering Adobe customers and exit strategy cross platform and that may be more evident when they finally release their Desktop Publishing program.

Given the history with Filemaker, although it was years back, having a cross platform subsidiary is a (long shot) thought. Claris, now Filemaker Inc, is still an Apple subsidiary AFAIK. I’m not sure how another subsidiary benefits Apple unless they have a long range plan to tackle Adobe.

[Michael Gissing]

Thanks Craig. Yes it looks like a worthy Photoshop replacement and cross platform. I might add it to the tool set.

[Michael Gissing]

I decided to take a punt and buy it as I have a few work in progress psd files and the old photoshop is on the old computer and I suspect I can drive it better than mucking around with Fusion 9 at the moment.