I remember back when my interest was first sparked, i had to arrange a chat with a communication technology teacher at my high school, and my dad and i drove an hour to the nearest autodesk reseller to get an educational copy of 3d studio for DOS! by todays standards its so easy, if you google “3d software” is the second use blender professionally (although i’d hardly call myself a ‘pro’, it’s just a wonderful tool that i happen to use!) but thats neither here nor there, anyway. people are savvy, if they have an active interest in 3d, they will seek out information on good software to try. I’m not trying to be snobby or say it shouldn’t be on the app store, its just that it seems like missing the forest for the trees to worry about users “missing out” if they have to find out about blender by doing a bit of research online. it requires the perseverance of learning a fairly extensive toolset, and an ongoing willingness to learn and cultivate technique. Setting aside the logistical pros and cons of going on the app store, the thing that seems weird to me is that the app store model appears to be designed around the casual user who just wants their computer experience as easy as possible. Pixelmator is not able to create even numbered image sizes such as 960 x 640 and at best, gives you something like 957 x 638 … close, but NEVER right. This gives me identical coordinates to import into another software where I use the images to layer on top of each other and create interactivity by making layers visible as needed. I enter a score into the program and then I save a screen shot in full screen mode I have a music notation program open on my screen I think of it as a “beta” at best and regret the purchase because GIMP can snap to grid.įor those of you who don’t know why snapping to grid is important, please consider this:
It does NOT snap the beginning and thus, pixelmator is a little toy to use maybe for adding text to an image (that’s what I do with it) because it can spell check … that’s about it. Moving the selection does snap but the problem is that Pixelmator starts selection where ever one puts the mouse or gfx pen down. Unfortunately, moving the selection still does not give me the “basic” snap to grid like PhotoShop was able to do when it came on 3.5" floppies.
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