On the 25th September the Pixelmator Team released PixelMator Firestarter, the initial release of Pixelmator, after watching the screencast and playing around with it, i totaly fell in love with it. It uses Core Image for it’s filters which means the stuff gets processed in the GPU, not the CPU. Which also means it’s insanely with fast. But there are a few things i’m missing. Shapes are important, i need them, i need them to work like in Fireworks, i hate the way Photoshop offers Shapes. Also it would be nice if it handles PSD-Files better, yes it can open them, but working on them is a bit risky.

I already bought a license and hope the guys at Pixelmator, will make it even better. $59 is a very fair price for such a great application.