{"id":417,"date":"2012-05-07T18:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=417"},"modified":"2012-05-08T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:06:40","slug":"image-editing-pixelmator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Image editing: Pixelmator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had need of a straightforward, easy-to-use image editing tool. \u00a0The occasion is the final formatting of my dissertation, which includes a number of images that need to be touched up. \u00a0It&#8217;s nothing too technical &#8212; just some airbrushing here and there, color adjustment, cropping, getting rid of extraneous marks, etc. \u00a0I wanted something more sophisticated than <a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skitch<\/a>, but nothing as complex as Photoshop or the like. \u00a0Ideally, I wanted a tool that I could acquire and learn to use in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The technorati over at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diaryproducts.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">DiaryProducts<\/a> suggested that I try out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelmator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixelmator<\/a>.\u00a0Pixelmator is a photo editing app built for MacOSX. \u00a0It seems to have all the basic features you&#8217;d need in an image-editing app, and more to boot. \u00a0Pixelmator is not free (<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/pixelmator\/id407963104?mt=12&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\">it costs USD 29.99 at the Mac App Store<\/a>) however you can get a complimentary trial version that lasts for 30 days. \u00a0I can attest to its ease-of-use. \u00a0After downloading the trial version I had my images cropped, brushed up, and ready to be imported into my document within about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had need of a straightforward, easy-to-use image editing tool. \u00a0The occasion is the final formatting of my dissertation, which includes a number of images that need to be touched up. \u00a0It&#8217;s nothing too technical &#8212; just some airbrushing here and there, color adjustment, cropping, getting rid of extraneous marks, etc. \u00a0I wanted something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabithahart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}