Pixelmator - 1.3.2

I see some comments posted that Pixelmator does most of what Photoshop does at a fraction of the price. But wouldn't a better comparison be Pixelmator vs. Photoshop Elements 6? That's selling on Amazon for $72. Can anyone shed some insight on Pixelmator vs Photoshop Elements?

While I don't like Photoshop's interface and consider it counter intuitive to most Mac drawing tasks (it is a photo editor, not a graphics package), hats off to Pixelmator for providing a near-zero learn time for anyone familiar the Photoshop.

At 1/10 the price of Photoshop and easily 10 times faster at startup, Pixelmator is suitable for 80% of what Photoshop does. Most people who think they need Photoshop could do nicely and better with Pixelmator. It is definitely worth a try. I don't use Photoshop at work or at home any longer because of Pixelmator ... and liked this so much that I bought a personal copy instead of asking work to get my Photoshop upgrade.

This one is a real gem and I do not hesitate recommending it.

It's amazing how many work this guys put in PixelMator!
Almost evert month there is an (free) update with many new features. The support (via forum) is pretty... it's really worth the money :-)

If you go to their forums or try sending them an email you will see that that pay zero attention to customer requests.
This will never be a serious graphic application without the option of disabling color managent, and after seeing no attention paid to other users as well as my request to implement it, I am giving up on this for good since they seem to not give a rat's a$$ what people want ... they only care about what they want ... so, good luck to them.

Beside the lack of photoshop-plug-ins..

...no color picker inside filters like change/substitude colors
...no preview/original button in filters
...no history window for pic manipulations
...no high-light, shadow and mid-tone tool - this makes Pixelmator absolutely useless for me as digital photographer!!!!