DAMPEOPLES  I've been using Elements 3 for quite a while. I'm no artist or pro photographer, heck, I rely on auto settings or trickery to get the job done mostly! Once I got a new machine with Leopard on it, I went looking for the new version of Elements, and read reviews that it didn't work, so I went looking for alternatives, and found this.

As I said before, I'm not very good in the art department, but I do enjoy using Pixelmator for what little I do know how to do. All the tools seem to be in the same place, which is great. I've not had any image speed problems after the latest update, I don't know if the Core Image problem is fixed, but that's not a problem of this software at all.

All in all, I really like the interface, it's laid out where I am used to finding things, and seems to do just about everything I would want an image editor to do for now. As far as the comparisons to Photoshop, that's pretty absurd if you ask me, nobody is going to sell you a replacement for a $600 app with a $60 one. I think I fall into the 'rest of us' category the tagline mentions, and i'm pretty happy with the app.   (Version 1.1.4)

IMHO  Downloaded the new Pixelmator version to replace the elder version. The first time I used the fresh-installed 1.1.4 I could open a PSD-file. But after that PM doesn't open other photos. I hear a sound, but PM doesn't give a message what the sound means. Already threw away the old version. Shouldn't have done that :-(  (Version 1.1.4)

BABYFETT  GREAT PRODUCT! It's a PhotoShop Elements killer and for my needs it's also a CS3 PhotoShop killer. I bought this as part of the MacUpdate promo a few months ago and there's already been two or three updates and each one amazes me. If you're looking for a cheap (money-wise) alternative to PhotoShop with lots of extras that'll save files with layers in PSD or any other format, this is the product for you. At the very least take it for a test spin.  (Version 1.1.4)

ESPIRIDION  I've spent the last few days doing a clean install of OS X 10.5.2 as well as of many applications including Pixelmator.

So far, Pixelmator is the only application that has given me problems.

With a 24KB image it performs as expected. With a 1.4 MB image it's painfully slow and unresponsive. At one point I got a message saying that I was running out of free space on my hard drive, which is brand new and the partition in question has over 100 GB free.

Apparently there's a "memory leak in core image" but so far I have not seen any solution. As it is, Pixelmator is unusable for me if I want to work with files over 1 MB. Absurd.  (Version 1.1.3)