Pixelmator is a cheap alternative to a professional photo editor such as Photoshop. Granted, I do not know what Photoshop can do that Pixelmator cannot, because Pixelmator does all I need and far far more. There are several great and helpful videos on their website, and you can learn to do some simple yet rewarding tasks – such as removing that annoying person in the background of an otherwise amazing photo.

I like that Pixelmator is so easy to use and has a lot of the same features as Photoshop. It has great video tutorials (both on its website as well as from users) that provides step-by-step instructions for a number of different features. Pixelmator gives you a lot of control over your final project and pretty much everything you need to know is easily accessed (Help or YouTube).

For a very small price ($29,99 but occasionally less with promotions), you have a very complete, Mac-only image editor. It is not Photoshop, but comes pretty far for most day-to-day editing tasks. The interface is black and glossy and appeals to the Mac interface, although more on the level of consumer apps. The GUI is well-thought out and does the work very efficiently. There are several filters and image tweaking functionality. Selection tools are adequate and reliable. There is even a context-aware heal tool, that can easily remove unwanted parts from images. Text-editing is fine, but not stellar. There is even an integrated Vector-path editing mode if you active the "Vectormator" hidden shortcut. But, alas, that does not allow vector-export. Paths and shapes stay vectors in the native PXM format, though.