London-based Pixelmator probably ruffled a few feathers in Adobe's Photoshop team when they announced they pushed a whopping $1 million of sales in just 20 days on the recently launched Mac App Store.
Pixelmator is a lightweight image manipulation tool aimed at graphics professionals who may not need all of Photoshop's tools and filters, and want to save money on Adobe's hefty pricing. Pixelmator is currently on offer at just $29.99 in the Mac App Store and offers many of the fundamental features that Photoshop has such as layers, layer groups, gradients, transform tools, image/canvas size, typography formatting, optimization for web, and not to mention 64-bit performance.
There are of course a few features still absent that Photoshop die-hards (such as myself) won't be able to live without, such as layer styles and character spacing & line-height, but as Pixelmator has demonstrated, there is a sizeable demand for a lightweight graphic app to rival Photoshop, even just through the only recently released Mac App Store.
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