While Adobe Photoshop may be the most popular image editing program for professionals, ask anyone who cannot afford to spend an arm and a leg what photo editing software to purchase for OS X and they will likely give you one of two answers: GIMP or Pixelmator.
For $60 Pixelmator gives you most of the functions and features found in Photoshop (aside from the new magical stuff in CS5). It is a small price to pay for excellent software.
Today the Pixelmator team announced the released of Pixelmator 1.6, code named “Nucleus.” Available as a free update to existing Pixelmator users, Pixelmator packs in a number of welcome features and improvements, including:
- major performance improvements (up to a 40% increase)
- 64-bit support
- layer groups
- an Import feature
- Flickr, Facebook and Picasa support
- redesigned transform tools
“Pixelmator makes it incredibly easy and fun for anyone to enjoy the best of image editing,” said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. “Now, with Pixelmator 1.6ʼs Nucleus foundation, which takes advantage of the latest Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator delivers the greatest-possible image editing performance ever.”
You can download Pixelmator 1.6 here, or through the apps auto update feature. [Pixelmator Blog]
