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When creating a web site design, it is easy to fall into the trap of trying to be all things to all people. In reality, the key to a good web site design is focus, focus, focus….

I think that pixelmator is too dumb even for “Dumb Blondes” right now and black, translucent interface is that “brilliant” only from a distance and for a very short period of time, what are those orange spills on the tool box anyway, placeholders?

That’s a good one: “Pants down, it is the most stunningly beautiful creative software I have ever used on any platform”, pissing on the wall isn’t the only way to draw FYI.

“and represents state of the art in Mac software design.” right now, I’d call it rather vandalism, not the art.

“it makes Gimp look like something from the stone-age”, well… it looks like that something is a flying saucer, an archeological find!

“In just a few hours, anyone can learn the basics of image editing and Photoshopping (apologies to Adobe for use of product as verb), without investing thousands of dollars in software that we “pros” use. Inexperience and lack of talent finally pays off!”, what is this bullshit anyway? Don’t apologize, they don’t care. Have you actually used pixelmator? or have you Photoshoped them so that they feature it?

“Even image exporting to .psd and other widely use image formats is available.”, some grammar mistakes over there.

“Sounds* like a good idea? Great, because I intend to collect royalties for it.”, but first you’ll have to go through the internship, fixing “a couple” of bugs. Sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it? Ow yea, I can hear the crowd is getting excited.
Let’s an “Ultimate”, “Home” and probably an “Enterprise” versions too then.

Judging by your blog design, you are an experienced designer, but a lousy reviewer. Wanna see
what the intended users think? Visit the forum hell then!

I adore well integrated OS X apps. I have the license for pixelmator. But the icon for it is not in my dock, yet. I’m looking to the future, with hope(not for the features you propose, Mr. Kent :P).

C’mon Devs - you CAN make it!

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php

If so, could you post a link on where to get it?

I have to agree with your comments about black icons on black backgrounds. I find that a little weird myself. I can’t even see what the top right most tool is. I looks like it might be a cursor with a plus sign down and to the right of it.

I personally don’t lean one way or the other when it comes to tools on the Mac. I get what I find useful and nice on the eyes. With Office suite’s for instance; OpenOffice is a nice idea, but doesn’t work well with the Mac. NeoOffice is a better choice, but I still use iWork simply because it’s clean and fast. I recently got a copy of Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac and am reserving judgment so far. My initial impression is that it is as bloated a program as any other Microsoft app is. However, that may be mute if the program works well.

If there is a native version of Gimp for the Mac, I would certainly give it a shot. There is a huge following for Gimp in the OS community for it.

Still, if you think Gimp is horrible, look at Amarok; a popular Linux based media player application. It is nothing less than the worst UI design ever conceived. And yet its users will tell you it’s the most beautiful (and best) media player available on any platform. In truth, it’s the worst. The UI is the ugliest I have ever seen among any app in any category, media or otherwise, and the layout of controls is astonishingly imbecilic.

Most of the navigation functions appear as vertically positioned tabs running along the left border of the app window. Now I’m not sure if the developers behind this app are simply amateurs (most likely) or they believe their users will be running this app while lying on the floor, curled in a fetal position, but any app that forces me to tilt my head sideways in order to use it is simply a waste of bandwidth and processes. iTunes has become increasingly bloated, but it still remains the best all-around media player/jukebox/content delivery engine available.

From the above examples I can only conclude that Open Source advocates simply have low standards in software design, from the OS they use (Linux) to the applications that run on it.

You’re obviously enamorated with GIMP, and you keep saying “to each their own”, yet you keep coming back and arguing how great GIMP is.

GIMP sucks on Mac. Period. There’s no other way to put. GIMP’s UI is the worst piece of crap ever invented and just because it’s free, it doesn’t mean it can suck.

And there’s also another thing, Pixelmator uses the GFX card to render everything, resulting in slick filters, while GIMP still goes at it the old CPU way.

But hey, to each their own, right? If you are happy using a sub-par program then go right ahead, but I don’t see a need to come bashing Pixelmator, in a review about Pixelmator.

I’ve downloaded and tried Pixelmator.
1. There’s no pen tool (and that’s what I use the most)
2. Black icons on black background (when you go to full screen) - bad idea for me. (I’m not happy with transparent tool windows as well)
3. When I tried to open new file by right-click -> open in Pixelmator - new instance of the program was launched. (and soon I have four Pixelmators running - each for one image).

Too bad you have those problems with Gimp - I running it on MacBook Pro 2.16 - and it’s sleek and fast.

But, as I said - lets each of us use the tools that we like - the final work is the most important here:).

Cheers