: Is pixelmator a viable alternative for photoshop? I've always been a photoshop user, i know the ins and outs and know my way around all the tools i need for my webdesign work. But now i'm

@RJPawlick971

No.

Pixelmator is quite nice--especially for the price. And I've been using it for a while for my own personal side projects. 2.0 came out and added some nice features.

Alas, it has issues. The big ones:


it's buggy. I think it's a bit premature to call it '2.0' IMHO. Still feels a little beta.
doesn't support full range of PSD layer information. It can open PSD files, but since it can't bring over all the layer effects and styles, it's really not practical.
very limited export abilities. The big one is PNG files. If you let it compress them, you get big color shifts. If you export it as a non-web PNG, it's huge, and then you have to use 3rd party tools to further compress.


I think it has a lot of potential, and eventually will be a great runner-up, but it still won't be PhotoShop.

As for slicing, it does do that (aside from the PNG issues). (I'd suggest not using a 'slice n dice' workflow anymore, but that's a different discussion...)

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@Cugini998

If your job isn't too long you could rent PS: www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/cssubscription.html
I tried Pixelmator for about an hour, then i switched back to PS.
For me it was too confusing because very much is a little different there.

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