Pixelmator for Freeway owners

FYI and Enjoyment:

Softpress offers Discounted Pixelmator as a Companion Product -
Published on 11/05/10

Softpress is rewarding its design-minded user base with a special deal
on a great companion application, Pixelmator. With their visual-design
approaches and powerful new features, Freeway and Pixelmator combine
seamlessly to create beautiful sites, presentations and email
newsletters without the need to write code. Famous for its visual-design
model and ease of use, Freeway is the tool of choice for professionals
and home Mac users who prefer to focus on their design, not the code.

Oxford, United Kingdom - Following the release of Freeway 5.5, the
acclaimed upgrade to its award-winning family of web-design tools,
Softpress is rewarding its design-minded user base with a special deal
on a great companion application, Pixelmator. Together, Freeway and
Pixelmator, with their visual-design approaches and powerful new
features, combine seamlessly to create beautiful sites, presentations
and email newsletters without the need to write code.

“Freeway 5.5 has been a great success, with rave reviews and lots of
excitement from our users,” Softpress Managing Director Richard Logan
said. “As a ‘thank you’ for our supporters, we have arranged to add
Pixelmator 1.6.2 to our list of deeply discounted companion products.
Alongside Intaglio and Easy Web Animator, Pixelmator will make it a real
joy to create modern leading-edge websites, reliable email newsletters
and stunning presentations within Freeway. Both professional and novice
users will benefit from the innovative and powerful features of these
applications for the creation of stylish, dynamic and standards-
compliant output. Thanks to all and Enjoy!”

Pricing and Availability:
Award-winning Pixelmator from Pixelmator Team Ltd. will be offered
exclusively to registered Freeway owners at $39 (USD), nearly 35% off
its normal retail price (RRP $59). Intaglio from Purgatory Design can be
bought at the Softpress Store by Freeway owners for just $49 (RRP $89)
and Easy Web Animator from CyberFront for just $29 (RRP $49). Freeway
5.5 Pro is $229 and Freeway 5.5 Express is just $69 (USD). Discounts are
available for education, non-profit and seniors from the Softpress Store.

About Pixelmator:
Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, powerful, and fast image editor
designed for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The application offers a host
of amazingly easy-to-use yet powerful tools to help users create, edit
or improve your images.

Pixelmator is packed with tools you’ll use again and again to create,
edit and enhance your images. With more than twenty tools for selection,
cropping, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation,
Pixelmator makes working on your images fast, easy and fun. The
application also boasts sixteen color correction tools and over fifty
filters to create and enhance images like never before.

Pixelmator makes it a breeze to import images from cameras, scanners,
and multifunction devices, and from devices such as the iPhone. You can
also quickly access your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, projects, albums,
smart albums, or folders via the new Photo Browser palette.

About Freeway:
Freeway, famous for its visual-design model, ease of use and clean
efficient standards-compliant code generation, is the tool of choice for
professionals and home Mac users who prefer to focus on their design,
not the code!

About Intaglio and Easy Web Animator:
Intaglio is the intuitive and powerful vector illustration application
for the Mac. Create amazing technical or artistic illustrations using
the full power of Apple’s Quartz and CoreImage technologies.

Easy Web Animator makes creating great looking animations quick, easy
and fun! Over sixty easy-to-apply pre-installed animation effects bring
your animations to life and make Easy Web Animator the best solution for
creating interactive content.

Softpress Systems: http://www.softpress.com
Pixelmator Offer: http://www.softpress.com/products/companion/pixelmator
Download Freeway: http://www.softpress.com/downloads/
Purchase: http://www.softpress.com/store
Media Assets: http://www.softpress.com/press/pressroom

Softpress was founded in 1993 to address the emerging needs of
professional publishers and designers for cross-media authoring tools.
Freeway, and its extensive feature set, result from Softpress’ ongoing
efforts to identify and meet the real needs of web designers in today’s
environment. Softpress creates tools that many people rely on for their
day-to-day business, so they listen carefully to their customers. Future
upgrades and product offerings will continue to demonstrate Softpress’
commitment to quality, leading-edge innovation and world-class customer
service.


Link To Article: News Archives - prMac



Richard Logan
Managing Director
SoftPress Systems Ltd

“You supply the creativity. Freeway handles the code.”


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Excellent! I’ve been keeping my eye on Pixelmator for a while now, and may have to take the plunge at that price…


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On 5 Nov 2010, at 12:00, Joe Muscara wrote:

Excellent! I’ve been keeping my eye on Pixelmator for a while now,
and may have to take the plunge at that price…

Me, too.

I’ll have to include Snow Leopard in the mix. I’ve been holding off
for a while because I want to upgrade the MBP’s hard drive and RAM,
and I need to be convinced my PS Type 1 fonts won’t be dead in the
water…

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I’ve been happily using 10.6 for a while now on my MacBooks (though not my iMac G5, where I still do web work). Unfortunately, I can’t tell you about those fonts.


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I’ve been using Pixelmator for a while now and with the recent upgrade [to 64 bit] I’d recommend it. However in connection with Freeway [certainly in the way I work] there is one aspect of Pixelmator that I’m not keen on. I had used Photoshop for years and assumed the “crop” tool in Pixelmator worked the same way; it does not. In Freeway having made a layout, perhaps a column of text with full width photographs I then need the source images with particular pixel dimensions. Very easy in Photoshop. Just enter the dimensions required and crop! In Pixelmator you have to know the ratio of length to width and “crop” to that ratio before going to “image size” and entering the [say] width in order to get the final pixel dimensions you require. In Pixelmator I’ve not found an easier way of doing this; this is particularly true when using only part of the original image. Any other Pixelmator users out there?


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Pixelmator for the next few hours can be had for $29 US. http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1346/pixelmator


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On 5 Nov 2010, at 17:15, chuckamuck wrote:

Pixelmator for the next few hours can be had for $29 US. http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1346/pixelmator

Is there any snag with this that you know of? It’s the same version as the Freeway offer for sure, but the download size from MacUpdate is only 35.1Mb whereas the Freeway trial is 171Mb …

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Pixelmator was recommended on the list when I mentioned that moving to 10.6 killed my PS7.

Just bought Pixelmator this afternoon via Softpress, bummer I didn’t know about the Macupdate:-(
I had a look around as well to find a good price (£21 on ebay that I thought a bit dodgy), just by chance I was over at the FW site and noticed the offer.

I’ve just had a quick play and it seems really good, though using the stamp tool on a 160mb file was a bit iffy. Other than that it seems fine, certainly better than all the other contenders that I tried. Sure there are a few areas (save for web with more options, integrating some of the panels, etc.) which could be improved - but then how long have Adobe been at it.

I’m happy - macupdate be damned.

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It doesn’t have a dodge and burn tool !!!

Generally it has a lot going for it but to ommit a basic tool like that is weird.

Thankfully I do most of my work with Lightroom these days.

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It does too. Click the stamp then from the “Tool Options” pulldown
menu choose color burn, linear burn, color dodge, linear dodge or any
one of the 25 choices.

Dave

On Nov 7, 2010, at 3:26 PM, seoras wrote:

It doesn’t have a dodge and burn tool !!!

Generally it has a lot going for it but to ommit a basic tool like
that is weird.

Thankfully I do most of my work with Lightroom these days.

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I should add that most tools have these options even the pencil tool.

Dave

On Nov 7, 2010, at 5:04 PM, studiodave wrote:

It does too. Click the stamp then from the “Tool Options” pulldown
menu choose color burn, linear burn, color dodge, linear dodge or
any one of the 25 choices.

Dave

On Nov 7, 2010, at 3:26 PM, seoras wrote:

It doesn’t have a dodge and burn tool !!!

Generally it has a lot going for it but to ommit a basic tool like
that is weird.

Thankfully I do most of my work with Lightroom these days.

s


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On 8 Nov 2010, at 01:04, studiodave wrote:

It does too. Click the stamp then from the “Tool Options” pulldown menu choose color burn, linear burn, color dodge, linear dodge or any one of the 25 choices.

Not the same thing; the Stamp tool isn’t a dodge and burn tool; try it and see!

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I tried using the brush for burning and you can get away with that, for a bit, dodging I just couldn’t resolve.

One suggestion on their forum was to create masks; well that’s a non starter. The other thing I found was an outright request for a dodge and burn tool.

It seems to me that a program of this sort ‘not’ to have a d&b tool which I see as a prerequisit for retouching diminishes the program. Sadly.

I’m sure I’ll get over it
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