MacStories’ Pixelmator Pro First Impressions  

John Voorhees for MacStories:

Gone are most of the floating palettes of tools that tended to get in the way of your project. Most have been moved to panels on the left and right-hand sides of the app’s main window.

The left side is reserved for the layers panel, and the right-hand side houses the tools panel, both of which have very little UI chrome. The two panels are translucent and sit on a layer above your image. That means when you zoom in, the image extends under the panels with a subtle transparency that reminds you that part of the image is obscured.

Though the first Pixelmator was nice to look at (certainly prettier than Photoshop), the floating control panels and windows were annoying and constantly in the way of what you were working on.

I’ll be trying out Pixelmator Pro as soon as I can, with the intent of completely replacing Photoshop on my personal MacBook Pro if it works well for me.