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I sincerely recommended Pixelmator Pro to anyone for image editing on Mac. if you are coming from Photoshop, some parts of interface will make you puzzled, but if you free you're mind, got will enjoy it greatly.

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I was expecting someone to post a comment along the lines of "Pixelmator is great for picture editing on macOS"; it is one of the best Mac editors.

But I'm also delighted to see your username pop up :) I used quite a few of your wallpapers back in 2002, when I was making desktop customization packs for Windows XP, and I have fond memories of them.

thank you very much :-) those were the times!

Goddamn what a small world, thanks for the memories Vlady. I was just a wee lad when I found your stuff way back.

I'm still drawing and publishing :-) although not as often, I must admit. Btw I do draw in Pixelmator Pro now, it fits my drawing habits really well.

I'm glad I've discovered you and your artwork thanks to these comments :)

Vlad your work circa ~2006 inspired me to go to design school (which I failed out of and went into computer science instead haha). So thank you :)

I haven’t enjoyed an image editor as much since Photoshop 5 in the 90s. Both the old Pixelmator and Pixelmator Pro have been commercial software I really felt like I needed and want to buy.

It feels modern and natural on macos. It’s pretty sophisticated, but the feature set I use is easily within reach and it’s intuitive to me. Modern Photoshop is an awkward behemoth. The GIMP has always been functional but painful.

The newer stuff like workspaces for different types of editing seemed odd, but I do flip between the illustration layout and photo layout and enjoy that.

I like the price for the software. It feels very reasonable to me and brings me back to the feeling of supporting developers’ work.

Adobe is so expensive and invasive. It just feels abusive. I also pay for Omnigraffle, but it’s high enough it feels like a burden vs supporting developers.

I am not a professional and just use it occasionally for design, documents, and personal photos. I thought I’d share that, since it colors my view.

Yup. Pixelmator pro is my go-to image editor. Right after Preview.

Unfortunately with Adobe I'm a victim of a self-imposed sunk cost fallacy. Even though Adobe drains my bank account every month for $20 I can't throw away 20 years of practice and muscle memory on Illustrator and Photoshop.

Why through away? stop for 1 month, try out Pixelmator. If you don't like it, go back. It's cheap.

If you are into the Photoshop experience, you might want to look at Affinity Photo. It is modeled after photoshop and the price is a very reasonable one time fee. You will have a little bit of a learning curve as it is not identical to PS but it is much closer than any other photo editor.

Unfortunately you are also kind of stuck of you have to deal with agencies or designers on a regular basis. Affinity Photo and Designer are really good and I use those sometimes for parts of workflows when I’m stuck elsewhere, but they pretty often misinterpret files created in Adobe proper

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