A cheap alternative to photoshop, but without the need to relearn the system. This sounds too good and somewhat like a spam message. But don’t look back as Pixel is released, the Phtotshop clone is out the market.
It’s platform independent, but is it open source? Well sorry to ruin it for you open source hard core fans but this application isn’t completely free, you’ll have to pay the around $40 to get it. Which kind of sucks as I would have loved to see it ship for free. However we have to still consider the huge price cut compared to what Photoshop costs.
The interface in Pixel looks as if it’s copied directly from photoshop, sure there are maybe slight differences but the most important things seem to be at the same place as in the “original”.
At present Pixel still in a beta phase but contains the base function that you find in both Phtoshop and Gimp. You’ll find support for Layers, Paths, Channels, masks, selections and support for RGB, CMYK, grey scales, CIE Lab modes and HDR.
You can read more about it on the project’s official website. More screenshot can be found at this link. Pixel is platform independent and is available for among others Windows, MacOSX, Linux and FreeBSD.
Anyone that has tried this yet, I’d love to hear your comments on Pixel, also how much better is it than me downloading gimpshot, that makes Gimp behave like photoshop?
If you wonder why there has not been any posts made lately, it’s because I’m currently conducting my military service, this was the first break I had. It should get more relaxed in the middle of February.
that’s totally neat! time to replace gimp heh
but I wonder how’s the support for brushes, plug-ins, etc. hmmm…
Tofu
March 11th, 2008