Don’t punish people who’re honestly trying to evaluate your program.
#Pixelmator filters cracked
Seriously, anyone willing to go to this length to avoid paying for your program is going to either pirate it or use a cracked Photoshop license.
After you’ve been using it for a few seconds it starts deliberately screwing up your image with really intrusive watermarking crap that, I assume, is intended to prevent users from using screen dumps to avoid registering the program. One final strike against Acorn is that its registration nagging is over-the-top. Don’t Treat Potential Customers As Thieves Its one strength - Python scriptability - remains, but I wonder if anyone really cares. For a program that various reviewers (including myself) have lauded as having a clean, simple, minimalist interface, Acorn has some remarkably rough edges.
#Pixelmator filters how to
I also discovered some really poor user interface quirks in the course of trying to figure out how to rotate the camera. It’s at version 1.2 and still lacking some really basic functionality. I was very negative about Pixelmator when it came out, but it may become my new favorite “quick and dirty” image editor. So, I have to say, this round goes to Pixelmator, which has improved by leaps and bounds from its beta quality (and that’s being generous) 1.0 release - it’s even launching a lot faster than it used to (instantaneous on my MacBook Pro). Above, Acorn produces the halftone effect I was after in a matter of seconds.
Pixelmator actually got the job done faster than Photoshop.īoth Pixelmator and Acorn feature incredibly slick support for Core Image filters which are, in general, faster than Photoshop’s, but not as flexible or useful. I couldn’t rotate individual layers in Acorn (a pretty staggering omission), the online help was useless, and I gave up. Note: Google seems to prefer this rather out-of-date review to my more recent comparisons.įor the sake of completeness and intellectual honesty, I decided to try the same basic task in Pixelmator and Acorn (the two most credible Core Image-based Photoshop wannabes).
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