Review by Bigdumptruck

I have used Photoshop in the past, as well as, Paint Shop Pro (for PC only, unfortunately), Elements and Adobe Lightroom. What I keep looking for is something as good and inexpensive as Paint Shop Pro is, but for the Mac. If I could afford Photoshop, that would end my search.

I can’t tell you if Pixelmator would be a good replacement for my old version of Elements because I had such a hard time trying to do even simple photo manipulation. Tools I expected to see weren’t readily obvious, and after a few frustrating starts at trying to figure out how to add a mask layer to darken the sky on my photo, I gave up and went back to my other tools just because it wouldn’t require as much research into finding and using basic functionality as I experienced.

The software installed quickly and easily, and launches fairly quickly (anything is quick compared to Adobe products).

If I have more time I’ll give it another try, and update my review appropriately, but for now, I found it lacking.