Pixelmator Development Update
I know you love these Pixelmator development updates. I wish I could do these more often and reveal everything that the Pixelmator Team is up to, but since we love to surprise and delight you, I hope you’ll forgive me for not being too open about things.
Anyway, let me give you at least a tiny sneak peak at what we are up to these days.
First of all, I must tell you that I am so freaking happy about the Pixelmator 1.6 Nucleus that has been out for a few months now. I really wish every single Pixelmator update was like that—high-quality, very successful in terms of sales, and very much enjoyed by customers. It’s simply awesome! If you don’t have it yet, you should get it.
Secondly, it is not a secret that the Pixelmator Team is always doing an enormous amount of work (yep, we always do). Currently (for almost two years now), we are working on significant improvements to the existing fundamental features of Pixelmator (in other words, we are improving quality):
- Selection tools are about to see the biggest update since version 1.0. We did a complete modernization of all of the selection tools. The Rectangular Marquee, Elliptical Marquee, Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, and the magical (since it is a click-and-drag tool) Magic Wand are to become not only much faster, but also much more precise. Selection tools are currently in test mode, and I must say, I enjoy them very much.
- Another tool which is receiving a huge quality and performance improvement is the Gradient tool. In addition to that damn banding issue being gone and increased performance, new Gradients look extremely smooth and high-quality. I greatly enjoy this type of development achievements. We also built some new Gradient types (reflected and diamond), but aren’t going to officially release those yet (or ever?).
- The Crop tool is also getting some very nice improvements in terms of performance and usability.
- There is definitely some more very cool stuff that is also in the works that, as usually, I can’t talk about just yet.
The reign of these amazing updates is coming soon (before the end of this year). I hope you get the idea of where Pixelmator is heading. You will sleep better knowing that every single part of the app is being modernized and polished and some very cool new features are on the way. I can’t wait to show those to you. We are working extremely hard to bring you the best image editing app in the world. We are almost done with those basic features…
P.S. Oh, and we are also very much aware that our Type tool sucks. Just stay tuned.
