Over the last 3 weeks I have fallen in love with Pixelmator. It’s perfect for my daily web design, minor tweaking, prototyping tasks. Simply put, it just works:

• Quick launch times
• Super light on the system
• Neat and familiar interface (as I come from Photoshop)
• Focussed (doesn’t make me feel like I’ve rented an auto-workshop just to open the battery cover of a mobile phone)

Yes, there are some things that I miss, (so far) mainly:

• Text formatting features
• Auto aligning layers (depending on your level of fussy-ness, doing this manually can take a gazillion hours)

It serves my needs well and efficiently, my system loves it too. I didn’t have to give my wallet a colonoscopy to pay for it either.

Using Pixelmator does mean, that I will be buying a license to Lightroom as well. The thinking is, special tools for specific tasks means less time to get the task at hand done. So until I get pissed off by a fellow band member or do a Babes Illustrated photo shoot in my living room, I should be fine without Photoshop and it’s sneaky content-aware fill features.