![]() It is 40Mb for the 2009 v1.41 of the app. It’s been hard to find but on a Slovakian website I have finally found this vital reading. I’ve decided not to waste my money.Īs in the best Windows environments if you don’t read the manual you won’t have a clue. However I strongly recommend you read the customer feedback as the contents describing this convoluted picture editor are in black and white and are highly criticised by everyone reading it. I guess the programmers were geeks not artists.Īmazon sell a manual written by a third party. You will find the easy things very difficult (like cropping a single layer is impossible -see below) and the difficult things easy (like wonderful mathematical filters to transform coloured areas or even semi-transparent cloning). However there are so many basics that are not obvious these tutorials tend to contain large quantities of the same basic advice lumped at the start. I mentioned the large number of onerous YouTube and online tutorials but until you really start to need them you realise that because they took so much preparation the websites demand that you pay for them (remember all those books Windows 3.1 for Dummies etc ?). Other Sources Of Information Are Hard Work TooĪs its own Help is as user friendly as a rattlesnake one will need to turn else where for inspiration all the time. That seriously hampers ! Obviously processes may be a sequence yet there are very, very few cross-references within their own Help system. ![]() You’ll find that the Help is nearly all text so incredibly there are very, very few pictures to describe what’s going on in a picture editor. And worse.Īs I said Pixelmator uses its own phraseology and never mentions any other popular names for processes that you may have come across before. If you work on a laptop, say on a train, you’re scuppered. Yet, common to so many apps these days, annoyingly it’s an online feature only. Anyway we’ve gotta get over it, it’s published software now and they won’t change it. Fortunately, at the moment, ‘Cmd-Z’ is still undo. Throughout there’s confusion which just piles up my feelings of a complete lack of control. Do beware that a brush stroke is something different. Another example is ‘Stroke’ which is a line or border - I know of only one other niche application that uses this name. It also has a ‘Lasso’ variant of it which once joined up can’t be edited other by Lassoing areas nearby following the rules you forgot to set in another dropdown somewhere else. Another that you will frequently use is the area selector with the ridiculous name ‘Marquee’ which isn’t recognised by Wikipedia or used any other apps. Certainly the finger ‘Smudge’ is a complete disaster. The tools on the left of the work area you think you’ve seen in other apps work in quite a quirky way and their controls are not obvious at all. Throughout the rest of the industry are standard symbols and phraseologies but Pixelmator strangely applies them to other functions. Sadly the team that wrote it must never have used any other correction tool except Photoshop. To be honest I’m not very happy with some of them and so, as I mainly do overlay, I decided to write this webpage with that bias to help anyone interested - including me ! This’s why text webpages are better because they usually have a menu and can be searched - video can’t (yet). I hate having to plough through some nerd’s dribbling voice only to find he doesn’t actually answer the one little detail that I’m missing. This is why there are so very many tutorials on YouTube. Until a recent update none of the hovers worked on any function so you couldn’t learn what the non-standard symbols were called -let alone how they worked. Cutting their professional customer base down a little at present Pixelmator will only run on OSX.
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