Pixelmator vs PyxleOS

Pixelmator's interface is pleasant to look at, easy to use and specifically optimized for OS X users, making it very intuitive for long-time Mac users.

Not only does Piexelmator provide easy to use tools that you should expect in any image editor, it also has rare tools such as layer styles, liquify tools and OS X optimized, fast image manipulation engine among others.

Layer styles allow non-destructively applying effects to a layer.

Dozens of visual effects available, easily discovered from the visual Effects Browser, broken into categories. Effects have interactive dialogs and live preview.

Pixelmator can be used across any number of monitors.

Gives you common image editing capabilities almost instantly.

Pixelmator's image engine is specifically optimized for use with Macs, providing one the best performance results available on OS X.

Pixelmator costs just $30 on the App Store. Additionally, it often comes bundled with other software that you might also find useful bringing the price down.

The user interface has support for color themes that are both built-in and user-definable. The canvas transparency tile can also be modified to the user's liking.

The size of the .jar binary is a little less than 1 MB, making the application very lightweight.

PyxleOS features a basic text editor module that can be used for note-taking or modifying a file that follows encoding standards.

PyxleOS can be used on any OS that runs Java 8 and above.

The download of PyxleOS is free and all source code is available at a public repository at GitHub.