When it comes to photography, Pixelmator Pro 2 is something of a halfway house between Lightroom and Photoshop. Pixelmator also lets you customise the menus, so if there are only one or two illustration tools you’ll ever need, you can add those to your menus and hide the rest, which is smart thinking.
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(Note: all the screenshots you see here are in the Default look, where the full range of tools are on offer.) This cleverly adapts the toolbars in the software so that, for example, if you’re only interested in tweaking photos, you only see the tools that are relevant to that job.
Talking of Preferences, this is where you’ll find the option to choose one of four different workspaces for Photography, Design, Illustration or Painting.
The software has been tweaked to match Big Sur (the latest version of macOS) and it will work with either older Intel-based machines or Apple’s new M1 Macs.īy default, the software has the dark black look that every app seems to shoot for at the moment, but you can pick a lighter design in Preferences. One of the biggest changes in this new version of Pixelmator is the revamped interface. Don’t fear that you’re buying an old version. Although the Pixelmator team refer to this new version of the software as “Pixelmator Pro 2”, it’s simply labelled as Pixelmator Pro in the Apple App Store (it’s Mac only, sorry Windows fans). One other thing to note before we get cracking. Pixelmator Pro 2 does have tools for illustrators and designers, and I will touch on these, but I simply don’t feel qualified to offer a definitive opinion on them. In this review, I’m going to look at it largely from the point of view of a photographer, because that’s where my skills lie. That’s £38.99 full stop, not every month. Pixelmator Pro 2 doesn’t cover anywhere near the full breadth of Adobe’s Creative Suite, but if all you really use is Lightroom, Photoshop and Illustrator, then it could be a genuine replacement – and it costs only £38.99. If you want the full suite of apps, Adobe will relieve you of £50 per month. Adobe Creative Suite is magnificent, but also magnificently expensive.
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