Pixelmator

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Pixelmator is a GPU-powered image editing tool for creating, editing, and enhancing still images.

Built on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU- powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images.

Mac iSight users can utilize Pixelmator's New Layer from iSight feature that allows taking a snapshot with Mac's built-in video camera and adding the snapshot as a layer in composition. The Photo Browser palette in Pixelmator offers quick access to iPhoto Library, albums, Smart Albums, and pictures in user's Pictures folder. Pixelmator actions in Automator allow the user to enhance, resize, or transform images, add any special effects, and even export images to more than a hundred different file formats.

Pixelmator is based on Core Image and OpenGL technologies that use Mac's video card for image processing. Core Image and OpenGL utilize the graphics card for image processing operations, freeing the CPU for other tasks. And if a high-performance card is present, one will find real-time responsiveness across a wide variety of Pixelmator operations, including editing, color correction tools, filters, and more. Pixelmator is fast on the latest PowerPC and all Intel-based Macs.

Other notable features: Pixelmator supports more than 100 different file formats, including Photoshop images with layers, and it comes with more than 16 color correction tools and 50 Core Image-powered filters, transform tools, full-screen editing mode, Dashboard support, .Mac support, ColorSync support, and Spotlight support.