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Fun, entertaining, and creative videos about design trends, tech, and brands.
🚨I Tried Apple’s NEW Adobe Competitor (Pixelmator Pro)
I review Pixelmator Pro, Apple's newly purchased competitor software to Adobe. This “all-in-one” design program combines features from Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and even Premiere into a sleek $50 package (no subscriptions, finally). But does it live up to the hype? Stick around as we test it hands-on.
In this unbiased review, I’ll explore Pixelmator Pro’s photo editing, vector graphics, video editing, and more - all while sharing what it gets right, where it struggles, and whether it’s ready to replace Adobe. Plus, I’ll touch on why Apple buying Pixelmator is huge news for creatives.
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Here’s everything we covered in this video:
00:00 What is Pixelmator Pro?
02:13 Pixelmator vs Adobe Lightroom
04:56 Pixelmator Super Resolution
06:14 Pixelmator vs Adobe Photoshop
09:03 Pixelmator vs Adobe Illustrator
11:00 Pixelmator vs Adobe Premiere
13:24 Can Pixelmator Replace Adobe?
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In this unbiased review, I’ll explore Pixelmator Pro’s photo editing, vector graphics, video editing, and more - all while sharing what it gets right, where it struggles, and whether it’s ready to replace Adobe. Plus, I’ll touch on why Apple buying Pixelmator is huge news for creatives.
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Here’s everything we covered in this video:
00:00 What is Pixelmator Pro?
02:13 Pixelmator vs Adobe Lightroom
04:56 Pixelmator Super Resolution
06:14 Pixelmator vs Adobe Photoshop
09:03 Pixelmator vs Adobe Illustrator
11:00 Pixelmator vs Adobe Premiere
13:24 Can Pixelmator Replace Adobe?
See you next week another design video :)
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👔 CHECK OUT THE MERCH: ━► www.GraysonsGraphics.com
👨🎨 YOU STILL DON'T HAVE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR? 🖼️
adobe.prf.hn/click/camref:1100l3vRik
👨💻 MORE FUN DESIGN VIDEOS ━►
ua-cam.com/play/PLxqDw9oz4lUFSnwVMVUpZSG4saWv4hKJf.html&si=aI7olmeOeR_rVgWv
📸 HOW I MAKE MY VIDEOS
- My Camera: amzn.to/3JgdRQ1
- My Lens: amzn.to/3HwznPj
- My Mic: amzn.to/3ZVHlbM
- My Tripod: amzn.to/3HaYohC
- My Lights: amzn.to/3XWG42n
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Business Inquiries: Grayson@GraysonsGraphics.com
(Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means at no additional cost to you, I earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. This helps support the channel while you get what you were going to buy anyways!)
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You don't expect Apple to change the pricing? Bait and Bill is their whole MO bro! Jobs pilled much or what?
As a LR replacement, try Nitro by Gentlemen Coders (not to be confused with the Nitro PDF app).
Will Pixelmator have support for Pantone swatches?
Adobes biggest competitor is GIMP imo 🤣 never even heard of pixelater. You can’t beat free
Can you perform batch edit as in lightroom? For example, in lightroom, I edit one image and sync the edit with several similar images. It would be great if this function exist.
noob : waoooo , pro: never heard of it. Stop creating controversial content and focus on improving your design skills instead.
I have been using Pixelmator and Pixelmator Pro for many years now, and it is a much simpler version than Photoshop, I bought it because of its ease of use, and the fact you can buy it straight off rather than the subscription model, plus not having everything going to "the cloud". Not sure how it will develop though with Apple, no doubt there will be an Apple "re-launch" which we'll have to pay for again if we want updated and new features.
I’ve been using Pixelmator and Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher for years for my personal work. Now they’ve both been purchased by other companies (Apple and Canva - and I hope that will not screw them up). I have to use Adobe apps at work every day. I have at least one Adobe app crash every single day. It’s really frustrating. It could be just scrolling through an InDesign book. Or dragging an artboard in Photoshop. Also, Adobe Bridge is the slowest app I have ever used in my entire life, and I’m 50 years old and have used almost every design/art/photo app that has ever existed on a Mac. It’s like we are paying a subscription to beta test Adobe’s software for them. I will never go back to using Adobe for personal work. Affinity is my goto, but Pixelmator is a really nice alternative.
I use Affinity Suite by Serif, which is awesome, and covers almost everything I could need from Adobe Photoshop, LightRoom, Illustrator, and InDesign. However, it doesn't have video editing capabilities. Also, it covers everything *I* could need, but it doesn't necessarily cover *everything*. One notable feature of Illustrator that's missing in Affinity is Image Trace, where you can just quickly convert a raster image to a reasonably decent vector design. Now, I haven't used Illustrator since 2020, but at least back when I used it, it wasn't incredible - just very good. Since Affinity doesn't have it, I've resorted to just doing vector tracing by hand, which takes a lot longer, but also turns out much higher quality. On the flip side, Affinity's In-Painting brush is leagues beyond Photoshop's Content Aware Fill in terms of usability, since it's a brush, and you can utilize any brush shape and size, opacity, feathering, etc. which makes it so much easier to smoothly use in-painting / content aware replacement of an image - i.e. painting out a street sign, or a person in the background, or whatever.
Still missing a Design and Layout program like Adobe InDesign. The solution is Apple needs to buy Quark Express. Quark was king back in 90s, until Adobe ripped it off with InDesign. If they do this Designers will drop Adobe like a hot rock.
I would have to by a mac again. I used Apurture until it dropped. Then went with adobe. Lightroom is a great product in many respects, but it is confusing with all the names the different products have had and naming conventions of functions across the different apps, as well as file management. It is also slow. Great, interesting video
Apple are doing great with their creative apps at the moment! Does Pixelmator feature any sort of effects like Photoshop though? Like, a blur gallery or filter gallery? I think things like that usually come as being essentials for graphic design, but otherwise… I’m sold on it!
Thanks for the update. I already have FCP for the iPad. I think you covered the basics but Apple burned me with dropping Aperture. I have a pretty good mastery of Lightroom Classic. Yes, I don’t like the subscription. I do like Adobe updates the application on a consistent basis. Apple’s track record with FCP for the iPad is very inconsistent. Still a number of features missing. In earlier years I was an Apple Early Adopter going back to Mac then laser writer introduction. When Steve J came back 1st day iPhone, iPad and Watch. Apple seems to be the MicroSoft of old. Incremental upgrades in large part because of the chip design. They failed at the car (overreach and out of their lane with huge costs) and VisionPro . I had real hopes for VisionPro given their IP. Loved the test I did and was thinking of it as a replacement for my aging iMac. Now I’ll go with the Mini 4 Pro since I already have their over priced studio display. Apple also let people go who had design and app skills at the leadership level. The leadership has become stale and more focused on shareholder value including leadership’s stock options and cash out. All this to say Apple’s purchase of Pixelmator, which I have as well, may not yield anything new. They can’t compete with LTC. I suspect the only real integration will be with Photos and programs like pages and iMovie.
Every damn job application in my field always requires adobe suite … this is where the stranglehold by adobe runs deep…sick of it
adobe is way cooler just overrpriced
Affinity
Apple should have purchased Affinity instead of pixelmator.
Apple is greedy dog 🐕🐕🐕
Panorama stitching? Luminosity masks? You're on your own. Just a few examples.
Been a Pixelmator convert since it was just Pixelmator, before the pro. As you say in your video, is it as powerful as PS? No. But it is still an excellent app and does everything I need it do and as you said, being able to do vector in the same app is amazing. I use Pixelmator Pro almost daily and I only paid for it once. It's stable and super fast too. Wont be for everyone, but perfect for 95% of people out there I think. Oh and Photomator is great too, but that is a subscription, but still cheaper than Adobe.
bro turn the music down omg
Been using this app for several years. Excellent product. Considering that I don't need 80% of Photoshop's advanced features, Pixelmator covers all my needs. Before Apple bought this app, there were occasional 50% discounts, which I took advantage of. It's wildly cheap )
is this guy doing road work after the video? the hell is going on with that jacket?
Apple probably smelled the rotting corpse of the Adobe and I'm sure are working on this to grab the photographers market. Especially with Apple's screens with great colors and fast new M-line CPUs.
I hope Apple give the interface a good shaking and make it more like the standard Pixelmator: I just couldn't find my way around Pro's interface. It didn't add anything to the product, just seemed like change for change's sake...
Haha the photo you edited was the Palace of Carlos V in the Alhambra, Granada (Spain)?
Hi from Granada, tho !
If they bring this to iPad then it’s gonna give affinity a run for its money and definitely curtains for adobe
My biggest issue with Apple’s application is CONTINUITY in the prosumer market. I was a Final Cut Pro user since version 1.0, then after version 5.0 Apple created the subpar FCPX. I was a SHAKE user until Apple killed it on 2009. I was an Aperture user and incorporated it into my professional workflow, until Apple killed it and replaced it again with a sub par application. I’m not going to invest time and money on an application that might be killed or changed into something subpar that it is platform closed. Apple used to be synonym with professional apps, now all their so called “pro” tools are just toys wrapped around a nice GUI. I give credit to Logic Pro as the only real professional tool available in Apple though.
Sony Buyer's beware. I just purchased Photomator and Pixelmator Pro and they do not support native A7IV or A7RV Raw files.
Sony Buyer's beware. I just purchased Photomator and Pixelmator Pro and they do not support native A7IV or A7RV Raw files. Edit: This only applies to Compressed RAW files. Uncompressed worked fine for both my A7IV and A7RV
what the fuck
Definitely interested in using this as an alternative to Luminar Neo for photo editing and a companion software with Canva. Thanks for the great video!
And what’s with the vest.. heading for a garbage truck ?!?!
End of adobe ?! Like numbers ended excel 🙂
This is dope! I hope they don’t have Apple Intelligence cause it’s not intelligent at all.
Do you think it’s worth it to buy it now in case it goes subscription or they increase the price?
I don’t think apple will make it a subscription because if they did they will apply it to Final Cut and Logic Pro
Pixelmator Pro isn't remotely a competitor for Photoshop. I think Apple bought the company because they're finally getting into generative imagery. It's very likely Apple will build Pixelmator features into their own Photos app.
This is the dumbest most short term "review video" I've ever seen. Apple just purchased the company a week or so ago... That's it. So to review it as if apple has created a product to compete with adobe is downright stupid.
Hopefully one day Apple creates a good vector/raster based animation software to compete Animate (come on it shouldn't be to difficult). Pixelmator come become this software…
Is merging of multiple exposure bracketed photos possible with Pixelmator Pro?
It's insane to think that Apple is now offering the best deals in several departments, including the most recent Mac Mini M4. I didn't think I'd live to see this day.
It will end up as one of their included apps with all hardware sales.
Lightroom has a good set of asset management features which include IPTC headers. This and the auto-levelling tool would stop me from using only Pixelmator or Photomater. As for subscriptions, Apple charges by a subscription model for Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro on the iPad, so I can see them doing the same for Pixelmator Pro. At the moment, I don't think people will pay the same subscription amount for Pixelmator, but maybe they would for Photometer.
Its maximum a prosumer tool.
Once this app is officially in the Apple system bye bye Lightroom and Photoshop. I'm sick of paying every month
@@titusnixon same!
I hope it’ll import my massive Lightroom library and retain my edits. If it does, I’m 100% in.
I’m excited to try it - you 100% lost credibility saying that Final Cut was better than Premier (coming from someone who switched to DaVinci in 2014). Used all 3 a ton in many industry projects and FCP is the most limited of the bunch, by miles lol But, I can agree with everything else you’ve said and super stoked to drop my last adobe sub with PS & LR now replaced by a perpetual software! 🥳 Freaking sick!
I have been using the Pro version for 3 years already (and the regular version for many more years). It is a great app -fast, easy to use, and constantly improving.
I guess Apple might rebuild the pixelmator from ground up, Just like Logic Pro X, if it is truth, I can't wait to see it!
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I have used PixelmaterPro for a few months and it is terrific. I use it for photo editing, graphics and design.
Media Encoder too. Constant crashing when making proxies.
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