Pixelmator is on sale at 50% off. Pretty awesome purchase for only $14.99.
http://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2014/04/17/sneak-peek-at-pixelmator-3-2-sandstone/
Thanks Gavin. I was just thinking about buying it the other day. Bought it now 
I haven’t explored this. I take it your recommend it? Or did you write it?
You can get a 30 day trial at their site to try it out
http://www.pixelmator.com/try/
Done, thanks.
Ha, I wish I had written it. I suck at artwork so I have someone I usually partner with to do it. For everything else, I use Pixelmator, it’s as advanced as I need an image editor to be (and no more). Some simple tutorials on their website to get you started.
I have Photoshop Elements 10. How does this compare (keeping in mind that I suck at artwork too)?
No idea, I haven’t used a Photoshop product since pre-CS days - but I’d have thought that if you’re already comfortable with Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator might not bring much to the table for you.
If I were comfortable with Photoshop anything, I’d be in a different line of work.
I was actually disappointed with Pixelator…
It seems to be more photo related than drawing related… and I need drawing, so I’ll stick with (shameless plug could go here)
[quote=80321:@Dave S] … so I’ll stick with … [/quote] PaintDS 
Does PaintDS handle both? I’ve never found a replacement for the old Canvas.
Didn’t wish to hijack this, which is why I purposely did not mention my app :)… but since you asked.
It is more drawing related (think MSPaint/Paint.Net)… but doesn’t have all of the features of either, but has a lot of features of neither
One feature I added because nothing else seemed to have it, was a Thumbnail Navigator, which shows a copy of your image scaled to fit where you can point at an area and have the edit window jump to that … so the edit window can be at 1600% and you can still easily navigate to a specific spot.
I have a new version coming out in a week or so… this new one is 100% Cocoa (current one is a carbon based life form), various declares were used to replace time consuming code. A Dodge, Burn and Sponge tool were added, as well as dashed, dotted line drawing for lines, rectanges, ovals etc.
It supports PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF and BMP (GIF and TIFF require you have the OSX SIPS utility installed, which most newer macs do)
It supports transparent for PNG and GIF… it does not support “layers”.
For version 3 (who knows when that will be)… I am planning multi-image editing, layers and other features yet to be determined.
Most of the updates are predicated on what I feel I need.
My old drawing programs won’t run on modern Macs, but since my needs are few and far in-between I can not justify spending for high end apps.
At the sale price Pixelmator looks like it is worth having… I’m also looking at iDraw.
Pixelmator is an awesome program, I highly recommend it.
+1 for the highly recommend. It’s fast and easy, and questions are easy to find answers to with google.
Must buy.
BTW they always do a promo just before a new major release. So we are going to see v4 soon. Great news
Was just on the App Store, Pixelmator is the #1 paid app.
[quote=80350:@Dave S]It supports PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF and BMP (GIF and TIFF require you have the OSX SIPS utility installed, which most newer macs do)
It supports transparent for PNG and GIF… it does not support “layers”.[/quote]
I’ve tried the PaintDS trial.
No png, No jpg - Trial Limitations?
[quote=80598:@Axel Schneider]I’ve tried the PaintDS trial.
No png, No jpg - Trial Limitations?
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WOW… I have never seen that reaction before… by default it supports “png,jpg,bmp,pict”
and adds “gif,tiff” if it finds the SIPS utility installed
I am working on an upgrade to PaintDS right now. So I will force my copy back to Trial Mode and see if I can replicate that error