Okay, I’m going to do it. For one project I’m going to try and use Pixelmator instead of Photoshop.

If you don’t know, Pixelmator is an all GPU-powered image editor based on the open source project ImageMagick. But it also has all the cool tools of Apple’s Core Image technology built right in. It is wicked fast! It has a nice clean interface and almost all the features of Photoshop that I need (except for layer groups, boo!). And at $59 (roughly 1/10 the cost of Photoshop) it is the bargain of a lifetime.

I’ve been meaning to use it from start to finish for a while, and today I decided to finally do it.