Apparently professionals don’t make mistakes and don’t care to one-click check before and after versions of their complex, multi-step changes. One of the more glaring omissions is having no History panel.
The first place I looked was the Preferences window, however I was stopped dead in my tracks at the only two tabs on the screen: General and Rulers. There’s a sizable amount missing from an editor considered “Pro” by name.
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While the interface looks aesthetically pleasing, once work began on photo editing I started to notice Pixelmator Pro begin to unravel in its functionality. Pixelmator’s statement on the issue is that they “feel a dark interface works best for editing images,” continuing, “but we haven’t ruled out a light option in the future.” Functionality Nino Batista has a great article to explore more on the subject if you are interested. Dark interfaces also strain my eyes more because my pupils have to stay wide open to gather more light, just like when forced to read paragraphs of white on black text. Generally, a middle gray is what I find best for photo editing a dark interface will usually result in darker images since they appear to be lighter than what they actually are in comparison to the surrounding darkness.
Combined with low contrast gray tool icons and text, your eyes are in for a workout if you spend a lot of time editing. The non-optional near-black interface is definitely going to be a turn off for some users.
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I suppose this is a long way to say they followed Apple’s aesthetic and design language very well and Pixelmator Pro is a Mac app through and through. With this, Pixelmator Pro seems to have an extra polish in its design Nothing ever “just appears,” the fading and other animations always provide context and feedback that’s relatable to the real world where nothing just simply “appears” either. There are smooth fade-in-fade-out animations everywhere while moving through the tool panels and even simple operations within them provide subtle animated feedback, such as selecting a radio button. Once you can see what you’re working with, the interface does look very graphically pleasing. By clean, I mean that in a truer sense than you are probably expecting all the tool panels are collapsed or hidden away requiring an initial setup time to get things to be in a useful arrangement for photo editing. When first opening Pixelmator Pro, we are greeted by a clean interface. One month later, here’s my early impressions of Pixelmator Pro. Whether it was to finally escape the never-ending Adobe Creative Cloud subscription fee, or for those just getting started in photography and looking to get their toes wet, there was a good amount of hype and excitement leading up to its release. In late November 2017, Pixelmator Pro was released to those eagerly awaiting a new photo editing solution on the Mac.
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