If you look at Apple’s website showing Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro, click on the “Performance” tab at the top of the web page, and scroll down the web page until you encounter the “design and layout” section.
You’ll notice something interesting. In the past, Apple has extensively used Adobe Photoshop to show how much faster the new Macs models are compared to the previous Macs models.
Not any more. Apple is now using Pixelmator 3:
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve been using Pixelmator daily for years now and highly recommend the application.
Sleep tight, Shantanu.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mark” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Pixelmator unveils Pixelmator 3.0 FX – October 22, 2013
Book em’ Shantanu!
Isn’t surprising at all – they’re mac exclusive, they pride themselves on ease of use and clarity, and they use a lot of Apples Core APIs. What’s not to love about this company? Would be my dream for them to take on AE while they’re at it 🙂
And as a bonus, the app actually looks and works like a Mac app, not some bastardized app with UI elements from MacOS 9
I think Pixelmator is secretly owned by Apple. 😉
Regrettably, no. I WISH Apple would buy PixelMator and fold it into iWork. I’d love it if they revived the venerable name of “MacPaint” for the product.
-jcr
No way, there’s a deep-level elegance about Pixelmator that Apple wouldn’t be able to adhere to with everything else they are doing. That’s my one disappointment. Their applications get a lot of high-level love (new features), but still lacking in the low-level small details in so many ways.
Yes be so nice if they incorporated it and used it as the core of an attack on Adobe design software generally as an iDesign suite.
Pixelmator is a very nice toy.
As much as I hate to say it but photoshop is irreplaceable.
I would suggest apple buy adobe and do a repeat of the Logic Pro trick.
Radio, I have been saying that for years. Even if Apple doesn’t really want Adobe, buying it is a preemptive move to be sure MS or Google, for example, don’t make a surprise move and buy it.
Good.
Adobe can KMA!
Photoshop is dead to me.
What is this Adobe and Photoshop that you speak of?
A mud and straw brick place?
A place where you can buy cheesy pictures?
Hmmm
Best $20.00 I ever dumped into the App Store. I have adobe cs6. And I’ll never move to upgrade again. Adobe is too expensive and the new interface is like a windows user interface. Clunky,… If you haven’t bought pixelmator do it. It’s just too good a deal and a great program.
Same here.
Never thought I’d use photo editing software as much as I have since buying pixelmator.
After letting some others use pixelmator on my MBP.. They purchased it as well.
Photoshop? What’s that? 😉
Just like Microsoft, finished.
Pixelmator is a app that is on your computer. It is also sold through the App Store. Photoshop is now in the cloud as a subscription service. Apple wanted to show the speed of the speed of the Mac Pro. Photoshop would only show the speed of the internet connection and servers used. Good reasons to use Pixelmator is you can use it without being connected to the web, you don’t have to pay every year to use your work, and you have control of your security.
I don’t know why this got any down votes, it’s a perceptive point
E X A C T L Y ! ! ! !
If they had used Photoshop there would have been lots and lots of questions as to the speed of the link back to Adobe and the systems upon which things run at Adobe.
Photoshop CC (and the other CC apps) are NOT cloud apps. They are simply distributed via the cloud (just as Pixelmator is initially downloaded via the Mac App Store).
I agree with you about the subscription model (although for some people it comes out cheaper than what they were forced to pay previously), but Adobe CC apps only need to dial home via the internet once every 30 days to validate that the user’s subscription is still valid.
So, the choice to not demo Photoshop is more about Apple consciously choosing to feature Pixelmator over Photoshop – not because it wouldn’t have been a valid show of speed.
Very happy to see Pixelmator featured – it is a great app!
HTML5 Gordon & Peter
I stand corrected. Thank you for politely pointing out my misunderstanding.
Photoshop is an application that gets installed on your hard drive just like Pixelmator. You work on your photos on your hard drive just like you did before the CC. Photoshop (and other Adobe applications in CC) ping Adobe to make sure you’ve paid your rent and are qualified to use the app, but other than that it’s just like using any other application.
I use Pixelmator rather than PS and I really like it. It fits my needs a lot better than Adobe’s bloatware and I’m not a fan of renting software from a company as shortsighted as Adobe, but Photoshop and the other CC applications are still the standard for publishing.
Not surprising. Pixelmator is built on Cocoa and the CoreImage framework, taking full advantage of all of the performance work that Apple’s put into their frameworks. Photoshop suffers from Adobe’s refusal to adopt Mac-only technologies.
-jcr
Yup. And if they’re not careful, they’ll be the next Kodak.
Adobe is starting for emend me of Quark Xpress in the old days and look where they are now.
I still use Quark. I like Quark, I hate InDesign. InDesign is basically PaceMaker with interface elements borrowed from Illustrator and Photoshop. Quark can’t be beat for doing heavy typography work. It’s a pure true typography program. I hate the typesetting structure in InDesign. Plus the way it handles picture and graphic insertion sucks with the double bounding box. I still use version 7 of Quark. Too expensive to upgrade, but still better than the newest version of InDesign. Now with Adobe’s prescription plan for software, forget it. My clients are basically saying they won’t pay the Adobe tax and stick with CS 6 as long as it’s compatible on Mac running the latest OS X version. Now, if there was just a good program as Illustrator for doing vector art, I’d be set.
I’m sort of the opposite of you, I like InDesign, hate Quark. I don’t think InDesign is anything like PageMaker (having used just about every version of both), except they are both layout apps … which Quark is also. Even without its vector and bitmaps effects, focusing on typography and layout only, InDesign is far more powerful than PageMaker ever was.
Gregory, I too use and like Quark. Never had all the problems that a lot of folks had with it, so I was never tempted to “jump ship”. And though it is an expensive upgrade, (aren’t they all these days!), you might consider moving to Ver. 10; some of the features that were introduce in Ver. 9 are really nice, particularly if you are big into the use of styles and conditional styles for type and items. I’ve stuck with CS3 for most of my Adobe needs; Adobe keeps adding bells & whistles; just more stuff to wade through to get to what you really want. Plus, I don’t like the idea of renting software.
I’m still using Quark 6.5 on my plastic iMac, although I have had a newer aluminium iMac sitting on another table for a year or so, with all the new Adobe software installed, including InDesign. I just can’t summon up the energy to switch!
Pixelmator is excellent, fast and top
Just wish it wasn’t so buggy.
“Apple shuns Adobe Photoshop…”.
Fitting. I remember when Adobe cynically shunned Apple.
And when it comes to companies who in the past left Apple users high and dry, I have a long memory.
Right you are good man, I keep a list of those companies as well…
I do too, of course, it was uncouth.
Adobe is company that offered many useful programs over a long period of time and I offer no argument. But, of late their high handed attitude is not welcome.
This a classic example of a King becoming a tyrant. We all know how people react to tyranny. I am a Mac user from 1992 and immensely pleased that today they are strong enough to look after their flock.
As a Web designer, I used to be heavy into Abobe products. Over the last 5 years or so I’ve completely eliminated them all. Pixelmator is the last bastion. I’m using it instead of Adobe Fireworks. So fast!
I will never go back!
Out of interest what do you use in place of Dreamweaver?
Who uses Dreamweaver any more? I haven’t used it in about 7 years. You use MySQL and PHP on your server with the CMS of your choice (Drupal, WP, Joomla or whatever). You manage the website from your browser. You edit files with a good code editor.
Back-up is done on the server. But if you need to sync files for development, testing and staging, then you use Github or something similar. Though, good code editors (Coda, Espresso, etc) will also sync local files to files on a server, like Dreamweaver.
Oh please
Who uses dreamweaver?
We use Sublime Text, or Brackets from adobe, it works pretty well with live preview (browser plugin for brackets / Sublime)
I have to admit, Pixelmator is awesome.
If you don’t have it, go grab it. Because you already have a mac, and you’re lucky Pixelmator was made exclusively for mac.
What do you use to replace illustrator?
I use Sketch. Mostly output to Rgb PDF. Cmyk conversion happens in-rip or with Distiller and profiles from the printer. A lot of my press stuff is Rgb now. Never bothered me that pixelmator was Rgb only.
Haven’t used it for straight spot colour seps tho.
Ve don neeed no stinkin Adobe, HA!
I’ve never been a fan of PhotoShop. From day one it’s been bloated, overpriced and more of a program for designers than photographers. They should have called it DesignerShop from the very start. If you want a program for REAL photographers you should look at Apple’s Aperture. It’s for people who don’t fake their imagery.
Aperture is great for ALL snappers, pro or not And note being Adobe is a huge plus !
The only Adobe POS. I have left is Acrobat Authoring software.
Probably because Photoshop CSS will not run in Maverick.
Apparently CS6 (and earlier) runs just fine in Mavericks, with the latest patches: http://blogs.adobe.com/vikrant/2013/10/creative-cloud-creative-suite-6-and-mavericks-10-9/