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We’re always looking out for new tools to try and enhance our digital photos. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use Pixelmator to improve images and remove blemishes.
This tutorial is a single movie from the Up and Running with Pixelmator course by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course is 3 hours and 33 minutes and shows how to get up and running with Pixelmator, a full-featured image-editing tool for the Mac.
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Richard Harrington is the CEO of ThinkTAP and the Publisher of Photofocus. He is also the founder of RHED Pixel, a visual communications company based in Washington, D.C.
Rich has published over 100 courses on Lynda.com. Rich has authored several books including From Still to Motion, Understanding Photoshop, Professional Web Video, and Creating DSLR Video.
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Hi Richard, I recently watched your entire Pixelmator course on lynda.com; great job, btw!! I’m very concerned with the exponential increase in filesize following a save and was wondering if you’ve noticed the same? I’m running the latest version under OS X 10.10.1. If I simply open one of my Canon 5D II files, and then save (no effects or layers or anything applied) as PXM, the filesize more than doubles! For example, 124MB TIFF balloons to 294MB pxm!! If I apply a few effects and have a couple of layers, we’re looking at 400+ MBs for the pxm file!!… Read more »
This is tied to having all the effects live and editable. You’d see similar results when using PSD. When you are “done” you can export to a TIFF for a smaller size. You also se some growth from all the versions it stored. May want to look at this….
http://support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10400
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/11/disable-auto-save-and-versions-in-mac-os-x/
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your input! I don’t use PS on the Mac so no way to verify that I’d see a similar thing when saving files. But, I feel pretty confident that your suggestion of the auto-save and versions feature built into recent OS X is probably the culprit. I’m just returning back to Mac after about 10 years so I’m not aware of all these new “features” designed to protect me from myself! :) Didn’t really feel I needed protecting… :) :) :)
Yeah… that “feature” pisses me off too. Especially in Keynote