{"id":24324,"date":"2019-02-15T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24324"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:55:14","slug":"pixelmator-pro-vs-photoshop-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/pixelmator-pro-vs-photoshop-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixelmator Pro vs. Photoshop CC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2019\/02\/13\/pixelmator-pro-how-does-it-compare-to-photoshop-cc\/\">Victor Agreda<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2019\/02\/13\/pixelmator-pro-how-does-it-compare-to-photoshop-cc\/\">\n<p>If you do heavy print work, you rely on other Creative Cloud apps, or if you&rsquo;re plugged into a workflow reliant upon some of the connected features available in Creative Cloud, I can save you some time: forget it. Adobe offers a decent deal for subscribers: between online storage, fonts, and other workflow niceties; you won&rsquo;t easily replicate that with a single application. However, if you simply need to work with photos and manipulate them for the Web&mdash;which is likely a big chunk of Photoshop users out there&mdash;then Pixelmator Pro offers some advantages for a lot less money.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That said, Pixelmator Pro takes advantage of numerous macOS features, including Versions, which lets you move among previous saves with ease. In fact, as I alluded to earlier, the macOS features in Pixelmator Pro give it somewhat of an edge over Photoshop. By relying on macOS features like Metal 2, Wide Color, and CoreML (which powers its machine learning features), Pixelmator Pro moves like a speedboat to Photoshop&rsquo;s battleship. I wound up launching Pixelmator Pro to do a lot of my photo work simply because (on a 2017 27-inch iMac, anyway) it launched instantly and ran like a cheetah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently used Photoshop for the first time in many years and was surprised at how it feels less like a regular Mac app than I remember.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Agreda: If you do heavy print work, you rely on other Creative Cloud apps, or if you&rsquo;re plugged into a workflow reliant upon some of the connected features available in Creative Cloud, I can save you some time: forget it. Adobe offers a decent deal for subscribers: between online storage, fonts, and other workflow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-15T20:55:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"4e13d958-98a0-405c-8adc-3dfe2f59ad6c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-15T20:55:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AThPZWJigQFyK3D3-L1mtbA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[332,619,30,32,1609,1781],"class_list":["post-24324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-photoshop","tag-graphics","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14","tag-pixelmator"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24325,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324\/revisions\/24325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}