![]() With that out of the way, let's get to the first task. Still, keep in mind that Iris is still in beta. It may be slightly unfair to include an unfinished application in this comparison, but since it actually managed to do one of the tasks Acorn could not do, I decided to include it anyway.Iris is still in beta and not a finished application. I am testing Pixelmator 1.1.2, Acorn 1.1, Iris 1.0b3 and DrawIt 3.3.3, which are the most recent versions of these apps at the time I'm writing this.Since I am used to Photoshop, and since Pixelmator works most similarly to Photoshop, I am most likely slightly biased towards Pixelmator.Of all the reviewed applications, I have the least amount of experience with DrawIt. I used the DrawIt demo for this comparison. I bought licenses to all reviewed applications except DrawIt with my own money, and have no financial (or other) ties to any of the companies which make them.I would have liked to also review Photoshop Elements 6, but I haven't got a copy of it yet. ![]() I am using these apps on a MacBook Pro 2GHz Core Duo with 2 Gigabytes of RAM.I will not look at fixing levels, exposure and the like, since iPhoto does a pretty good job at that, and I think most people will use these editors in conjunction with iPhoto or even Aperture or Lightroom, using them to do tasks that involve layers and selections and pixel-level operations, features which iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom don't provide. Stitching a few shots to create a panorama image.In this review, I'll look at three different tasks: I'd like to do something different here Instead of simply looking at their UI, I'd like to look at how these applications handle tasks I typically do. I've seen a few reviews of these applications, but the reviews mostly concentrate on user interface concerns. New APIs from Apple such as Core Image have allowed small, indie developers to create quite sophisticated image editing tools. In recent months, a lot of new image editors have appeared on the Mac platform. I typically turn Caps Lock off on my Macs, so I never noticed this Joshua Lund alerted me to the fact that you can push Caps Lock to get Pixelmator to draw the brush cursor in the correct size.Acorn 1.1 is now officially out, so I've changed the review to take its changes into account (new features pertinent to this review include a new drop shadow filter, drag and drop support for moving layers between images, web export and speed improvements).Due to popular demand, I've added DrawIt to the list of reviewed applications (I originally did not include it since I felt it was more of a vector image application).This is a greatly enhanced version of my original comparison of Pixelmator, Acorn and Iris. FebruPixelmator, Acorn, Iris and DrawIt doing real-world tasks
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