Dobbiamo ammetterlo, GIMP è un’ ottimo programma, ma ha le sue limitazioni come tutti i software open. bisogna anche ammettere che chi ha bisogno di un “editor grafico” per professione non può farvi molto affidamento, anche se le ultime versioni sono molto migliorate.

A questo porblema ci viene incontro uno sviluppatore autonomo, “Pavel Kanzelsberger”, che da vita ad un “clone” di photoshop, Pixel

 Come vedete l’interfaccia ricorda molto photoshop

 

Features 

Platforms

• Pixel is running following platforms now: Windows, Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Linspire, Zeta/BeOS/x86, QNX/x86, FreeBSD/x86, MacOSX/PPC and MacOSX/x86, MorphOS/PPC, eComStation, OS/2, SkyOS and DOS
• In future following ports are possible if there’s general interest: Linux/x86_64, Linux/ARM, Solaris/x86, Solaris/Sparc, Window x64, NetBSD/x86

Core

• Pixel is an extremely small and fast application
• it is easy to translate to any language as it supports full Unicode, all available translations are available at once (English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Slovak, Croatian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Afrikaans, Brazilian Portuguese and others)
• supports TWAIN compatible scanners, digital cameras
• supports SANE compatible scanners, digital cameras and others (Linux, BeOS, eComStation)
• pressure sensitive tablets support
• printing support
• multiple color managed clipboards
• various image formats handling (GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PSD…)
• support for JPEG-2000 format
• support for OpenEXR format
• EXIF support

Image editing

• support for layers, paths, channels, masks and selections
• Color Management support for RGB, CMYK, Grayscale and CIE Lab modes (8-bit and 16-bit)
• support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images with 32-bit/channel precision, HDR images in Pixel are editable in full HDR quality, not in 8-bit RGB as in competiting programs
• realtime live effects for layers (adjustments, effects), sets of live effects can be saved as layer Styles
• image browsing and searching
• powerful text editing with spellchecking and support for IME/XIM (Asian languages)

Retouching

• includes variety of brushes, including full-color brushes and animated brushes
• brush retouching tools including special effects
• retouching set of filter plug-ins

Web features

• complex support for image slicing and image optimizations (GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP)
• direct editing of generated HTML code without destroying user’s additions
• support for clickable maps
• support for small animations for your web pages (animated GIFs)

Screen Shots (dal sito ufficiale)

come potrete notare visitandoil sito ufficiale, sono presenti molte versioni del programma, tra cui:
Windows, OSX, Linux, BeOS, Debian/Ubuntu, ecc …

Naturalmente potete scaricare una versione di prova del programma che però ha la spiacevole caratteristica di salvare le immagini con un watermark ripetuto che ne vanifica l’utilizzo in versione di prova.