Leave a Review Pixelmator
A Wonderful Addition to the Toolbox
Yes, the interface is a bit cumbersome, but Pixelmator is packed with features. It seems most of the poor review are from folks who are looking for yet another app packed with dozens of 'filters', where dropping $5 really would be a big 'splurge'. This is not one of those apps.
But if you're looking for an image program that can open up Photoshop files with layers, this is your app. If you need an app that supports layer styles (including strokes, color overlays, gradients, drop shadows, and blending modes), masking with feathering, smart shapes, healing tools, distortion tools, painting ability with over 100 brushes and smudge tools, along with a smart collection of color and level adjustment tools, all in one app, this is a great choice.
And it even has some nice filters. Just not hundreds of them. ;)Show lessTovokas
Great Photo Editor, missing a few features
Overall this is a great tool for doing photo manipulation. I use it for compositing images and annotating images for promotional graphics. The interface is definitely a little challenging to get your head around at first and I wish there were more video tutorials for it, but once you get your head around the limits and idiosyncrasies, you can really fly.
Probably the biggest missing thing for me is alpha layers... Without having some kind of alpha mask layer, compositing images is very frustrating. One of the more common things I do is duplicate a layer, mask off part of it them apply filters to one of the layers. This works well for applying an effect to only part of the image. With pixelmater on the iPad the closest I could do to replicating this was copying a section of the page and pasting that as a new layer. This works ok, but you can't adjust which portions of the image are masked after your initial copy/ paste which means if you make a mistake early in the process it's very difficult to fix it without repeating a bunch of steps.
Overall, I've been able to do some impressive stuff, but the problems with layer masks and a few UI issues really hold it back.
5 stars because it's the best on the iPad, But it's still missing some vital stuff.Show lessmtb_ogre
Missing most features of pixelmator for Mac
What few features are available are generally well thought out and adapted for touch - especially on iPhone. However, if you're expecting to have access to any of the vectormator features available on pixelmator for Mac, or even some of the more advanced raster features, like channel masking, you're going to be disappointed.
I understand that it's hard to port over all of the features for pixelmator for Mac. However, given that this app is missing so much of the Mac's features, it should be called 'pixelmator mobile' or 'pixelmator pocket'.
Finally, there are a few iOS features that this app needs to have: open-in-place on iOS is a must. It's no longer acceptable to only store items inside an app library in iCloud. Users expect to be able to store their files anywhere - iCloud Drive, Google Drive, etc, and edit them without the hassle of importing/exporting to a drive.Show lessajay.ganapathy
Terrible!! Missing the one feature I paid for!
I downloaded this with the intention of colouring in professional graphics via my iPad using the one tool that for some reason is non inclusive of the iPad app despite being on the Mac version: PAINT BUCKET!!!
How on earth could you guys leave such an important tool out?????
Usually when you pay for something you can hold the expectation that you are paying for a premium product.
As soon as you avenge your letdown I will be happy to modify my review!Show lessGreenly9595
THR BEST APP
I don't ever write reviews, but seriously Pixelmator has to be the best app on my phone, iPad and Mac.
It is beautiful, simple but powerful, super easy to use and you are almost unlimited in what u can do. I used to pay fully download and crack Photoshop every year, (I normally don't pay for software either) but happily would spend my dollars on Pixelmator again.Show lessJPThor
Very much worth it's price
Having been a graphic artist for most of my working life I have been looking for something to give me the flexibility on my mobile that I have been used to on my desktop and laptop devices. On those devices I use the professional version of a very common piece of photo-editing software so it was a big ask for an app.
Now I have discovered Pixelmator I am happy to be able to say that it is the most flexible, precise and functional photo-editing app I've ever used on my iPad and iPhone. Before buying this app I had tried quite a lot of mobile apps (including ones I have paid up to and around the £10 mark) that purported to make advanced photo editing possible but I discovered that I needed more out of them than they could offer.
I can now do many things that I would previously had to use my laptop for but with the convenience of editing them wherever I am with my phone. I'm not suggesting that it's a suitable replacement for the professional software available for desktop and laptop devices but in situations where there is no access to those devices this is a powerful little app.
It may take a while to get used to using it but that's because there are so many things it can do, however, if you're used to photo-editing it's pretty instinctive.Show lessC0ventryclare
Poor design
The app is poorly designed, the layer menu always appears when you swipe from the left edge, even while youre trying to draw something using a brush... Annoying.Alkor7
My favorite photo editor
What the h…. this app has only four stars??? How is that even possible? If there’s a 5 star app on my phone, it’s Pixelmator - comparing all the (dozens and dozens) of iPhone editors I’ve tried over the years, Pixelmator takes the crown. Every aspect of this app, every little detail, has obviously been tweaked to perfection.
I used to do most of my photo editing on a Mac in the past, but since the day I installed Pixelmator for iPhone I hardly ever open the Mac version anymore - it is such a joy to work with the iPhone app and the results I get are just stunning.
A big thank you to the Pixelmator team - these guys have an eye for pixel perfect UI design. I admire how they’re sweating every little detail and how their tools are not only fun to work with but also innovative, clever and inherently usable. 5 stars all the way, well deserved.Show lesssomepixiessong
Great app
Great app for editing photos, also manages workflow quite well. Since the update of iOS 9 it has gotten very clunky and slow to respond. If this could be fixed it would be great.Tna6000
LOW RES POS APP!!
I can't believe the positive reviews, this app saves in low res! Hello, Pixelmator, it's 2015! I can't think of any serious photo editing app that doesn't save at native resolution or high res.
When you bring in a high res photo from the camera roll and work on it in Pixelmator, the edges are pixelated and remain so when you save.
This app is useless. You can't print out work from it as the images are low res and fuzzy. Yeah, if you want a $10 app to edit for Instagram or FB fine, but there plenty, plenty of one dollar or free apps that will do the same and print out high resolution. The excellent Snapseed prints out high res. What the hell is so hard having a developer design a high res app?????
I've deleted this piece of crap app off my iDevices until they decide to stop being greedy and actually upgrade this app to high res. how anyone can rate this app higher than one star is beyond me unless they never print out photos. This is really a scam app on Pixelmator's part. Awful.Show lessluna noire
