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You can tell this in the key equivalents added to both Pixelmator and Acorn - they responded properly to many of the Photoshop-standard text shortcuts I tried such as G for gradient, M for marquee selection and W for the magic wand. Both Pixelmator and Acorn have seriously targeted ex-Photoshop users, creating tool suites intended to seduce that audience. I quickly discovered that GIMP is not in the same class as Pixelmator or Acorn. What she asked me to do was to spend time, hands on, to get a sense of what kind of options were out there.įor Photoshop, I looked primarily at Pixelmator (US$14.99 "sale" price, but it's been on "sale" since November 2012) and Acorn 4 ($29.99), with a glance at the donationware GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP.
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We know that none of these apps provide a full replacement for Photoshop or Illustrator.
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* Pressing the fx button in the tool palette will now toggle showing the filter sheet if there aren’t already filters on the current layer.Last week, after Adobe announced its move to a subscription-based cloud plan, our own Kelly Hodgkins asked me to look at software alternatives for some Creative Suite apps.
* It is no longer to move layers into or out of locked group layers via the layers list. In addition, if a color handle has the focus of the color palette, it will now draw a little highlight on top of the handle letting you know this. Better drawing and handling of the gradient palette color handles. * QOL improvements for the gradient palette: Single click to select and change the color of a color stop. * The “Monitor Resolution” preset now does the right thing for retina displays. You can now use this processor to stack all your shapes into a single pile. * Changed the minimum radius of the “Arrange Shapes in a Circle” processor to 0.
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* New code for matching your image’s color space to the display color space. Why didn’t anyone notice that we had two different menu items for the same thing till now? * Removed the View ▸ Select Color menu item, in favor of the Edit ▸ Pick Color menu item. * Rolled back the bits from 5.4 where shape layers would draw in a linear RGB colorspace if your document was set to run pixels through a linear colorspace as well. It also didn’t match what most other image editors did as well. As part of the color profile overhaul, Acorn 5.4 changed the default WPPP to Linear Light and in while this is awesome for doing things with brushes and most other alpha blending scenarios, it probably wasn’t the right choice for general webby use and setting colors in general. * The return of no working pixel processing profile (WPPP for short?) as default.
* Tightened up some colorspace issues when using the system color loupe from the color panel. * The Layer ▸ Rotate and Transform ▸ Rotate 90° layer menu items now work on a selection. Hold down the option key for more menu items. * Layer alignment options: Select multiple layers, and use the various options under Layer ▸ Rotate and Transform ▸ Align to have edges line up or center in canvas, or so on. Bonus- combine this with the Translate shape process to make shapes do a loop across your canvas. This means that shapes can either not make it all the way around the circle, or even go around multiple times. Any other value between 1-360 is the distance (as an angle) between shapes. A setting of 0 will mean shapes are auto-spaced around the circle evenly. * New “Spacing” option in the “Arrange Shapes in a Circle” shape processor. * Color profile, bit depth, and DPI of an image are now listed in the Metadata window.
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As well as “Dither”, which is a filter which lets you choose from four different types of dithers: Atkinson (old school Mac OS), Floyd Steinberg, Gaussian Blue, and Ordered Reproducible. * Two new dithering filters under Color Adjustment: “1Bit” which will turn your layer in a (seemingly) one bit, black and white image.
And if your hands are on the keyboard instead of mouse, you can use the keyboard shortcut Control-C to pick a color out. (You can also use the arrow keys to move it by single pixel increments). And finally if you’d like to get finer control when choosing your color, click and drag the mouse and let up when you’ve chosen your color. You can also scroll in and out with your scroll wheel (with shift+option down) to change how far in the loupe zooms. New color picker! Hold down the option key (while in the canvas) when using the brush, pencil, gradient, or fill tools, and you’ll get a fancy new loupe to select a color from anywhere on the screen (just click to pick your color).