Archive for July, 2008

We have some great news for anyone willing to learn Pixelmator. Though Pixelmator comes with great Help documentation that covers nearly everything available in the app, and, as you may have already noticed, our forum community is always available to help with problems, we all know that this is not enough for someone who is very new to Pixelmator and to image editing concepts.

That’s where our long-time forum buddy Sebastiaan van der Velden enters, with his collection of video tutorials for Pixelmator! The new Pixelmator podcast offers exciting tutorials that cover basic as well as advanced features of our favorite image editor.
What’s more, Sebastiaan has made it available on iTunes (click here) and on his website. The podcast available through iTunes is in medium resolution while those on the website are exclusively optimized for your iPhone, iPod, or AppleTV.
Enjoy the show! And I am sure Sebastiaan is looking forward to your feedback.

At last, I am happy to announce that we just shipped the latest update of Pixelmator, version 1.2.2. This version is not a huge update, but we are working on two versions of Pixelmator these days, so shipping the application was a bit harder than usual.

The two versions I mentioned above include (1) the currently released 1.2.2 update and (2) the soon to be released 1.3 Tempo, which, by the way, will be the best major (and free) update we have ever done. But let us not talk about the Tempo yet.

For the most part, the changes in Pixelmator 1.2.2 involve the Gradient tool and bug fixes. The Gradient tool now works live, which means you see the result while dragging the mouse. Expanding the Gradient tool’s function in this way might appear to have been an easy task, but it was not - we had to convert all the gradient types from simple Cocoa to Core Image kernels for performance. Fortunately, the conversion was successful, and I believe Pixelmator now has the most fun Gradient tool to work with. Try it and let us know what you think.

Of course, Pixelmator 1.2.2 includes many more enhancements and bug fixes that you may check by clicking here or by simply downloading it and putting it through its paces.

That’s it for now. Going back to work on 1.3 Tempo, which is what I believe we are all waiting for…