The Pixelmator team has released the next version of their image editing and creation app. The new version, 1.4 Sprinkle, boasts:

“improved graphics tablet support, new brush presets, minor user interface, compatibility and performance improvements, and several bug fixes.”

New features in this release include a new painting engine, Adobe Photoshop brushes support, a clouds filter, document presets, and more.

“Pixelmator's new painting engine delivers smoothness, performance improvements, and new brush settings for painting tools in Pixelmator. New advanced brush settings in Pixelmator include scatter, flow, follow direction, size jitter, stroke jitter, angle jitter, opacity jitter, and color jitter. In addition to the ability to load and save brush presets, the application also allows users to import Adobe Photoshop brushes.

New document presets in Pixelmator can be used to quickly choose image dimensions and resolution for display, web, photo, or print projects. Users can also create their own document presets.

Pixelmator's powerful new clouds filter allows the artist to easily generate realistic clouds that can be used in either photos, special effects, or for creating natural textures.”

The update is free for registered owners and is available as a $59 download for new users.

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MacZot has VectorDesigner on sale today for $39.99. Normally $69.95 VectorDesigner is vector drawing application that’s easy to use at a price most people can afford and today it’s even more affordable.

Vector Designer:

“has everything you need to create fancy vector graphics such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web graphics, t-shirt and more.It features a wide range of tools and smart shapes: easily create rectangles, ovals, polygons, stars, bezier curves - even convert bitmap images to vector-based drawings thanks to VectorDesigner’s automatic raster to vector conversion!VectorDesigner even provides advanced tools for performing geometric operations, to achieve total control over your drawings (union, subtraction, intersection and exclusive-or operations)”

Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (10.5 recommended).
G4, G5 or Intel processors.
1.25 GHz or faster.
512MB
(1GB recommended).
Core Image supported graphics card.
Some features require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

To get you started on the road to vector designing greatness, TweakerSoft the makers of VectorDesigner have put together some great screen casts. Check them out over at TweakerSoft’s website.

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