Pixel image editor

Market release

Administrator — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:19:53 +0000

As I mentioned before, Pixel worldwide sales and marketing will be done by another company and that is Globell, B.V. in Netherlands. You can checkout their website at www.globell.com. Pixel is now in final phase of bugfixing and QA, but that’s not enough for release on market. So when proper translations, the manual, websites, e-shop and support are ready, Globell will announce release on market. Pixel will be released as ESD for few first month and later it will come in retail box as well. Pixel’s name might also change slightly, since Pixel is a very common name and it is very difficult to protect it. Globell’s announcement will be displayed also here, so you can check either this website or Globell’s one. Thank you for your interest. Stay tuned.

Edit: Globell’s website is in German language, because this company is usually focused on German speaking market, however that’s not the case with Pixel. Pixel will be marketed worldwide in English, German, Spanish, Italian and French with versions for Windows, MacOSX and Linux. Those are already decided, others may be added in future if there’s a demand on market. Also Pixel is not going to be listed on this or Globell’s website, it is getting a new website with new product name, forums, support and e-shop. It will be announced when everything is ready.

Pixel 1.0 final release

Administrator — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:35:24 +0000

As I mentioned in my earlier post, there is a deal with investor who is going to take care about all marketing and sales of Pixel, as well as branding and first-level support. Release date for final version of Pixel is set to April, 30th 2009 and from then there will be new version released every year. Until then there might be few betas released for beta testing and what’s important, all current customers will be handled by me. That means customers will get access to all betas and final version as well, since they already paid for their license. After final version is released, all sales will be automatically transferred to new investor.

Pixel and all other future applications development will be handled by newly established company called Mediaware, s.r.o. (Ltd.), where I act at CEO position. When the deal between Mediaware and new investor is finished and all contracts/agreements are signed I will announce their name and publish more information about this co-operation, roadmap, features list, supported platforms, prices and so on.

Thanks for your patience and support, the future looks very promising for this project. Take care.

Pixel Development

Administrator — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:43:27 +0000

You may have noticed Pixel development is painfully slow, but it didn’t stop, it continues and I’m doing my best to release full featured and stable version as soon as possible. The only problem is that funding this project is more and more difficult, so I’m forced to waste more and more time with other non-interesting projects to fund Pixel. The good news is I’m already in talks with a possible investor who can hopefully breath new air to sails and speed everything up. Thank you very much for your patience and support.

Beta 8 goes 64-bit

Administrator — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:36:39 +0000

Today Beta 8 compiled on 64-bit platforms for the first time, so beside Universal Binary for Mac OS X it will be released for 64-bit Linux and Windows x64 as well. Development of this beta is taking a little bit longer than expected but I just would like to make sure it’s really perfectly stable and usable for daily work. Thank you for your patience, I’ll be informing about this new release very soon in a little bit more detail. Regarding 64-bit version for Mac OS X, it will take a little bit longer since I’m suffering from very similar problem as Adobe does. That is because Carbon in Leopard is 32-bit only and to make 64-bit application one has to move his code to Cocoa APIs.

Pixel for Sale

Administrator — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:10:33 +0000

Pixel image editor, including all commented sources, tools, websites is now for sale. Base price was set to $10.000.000. In case of interest please send your offers to sales at kanzelsberger dot com.

Update: This news was of course an April Fool’s day joke

PixelCommunity.com is down

Administrator — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:46:39 +0000

Forums, Bug Tracker and Wiki are not working for few hours already since HDD crashed in server hosting www.pixelcommunity.com website. Also Pixel activations are not working due to this crash. If you try to activate Pixel, it will report following error: Server is down, please try again later. Server is currently being installed on new HDD and all operations should be resumed until midnight today (GMT+1).

Sorry for any incovenience this may caused. In case you need to activate Pixel, you can contact support at kanzelsberger dot com by e-mail.

Update: Pixel activations are already resumed using older backup server.
More news: Server is finally back in server room in Bratislava and connected to internet. Data restoration might take another day, since it was acting as webhosting for many websites and also as DNS server. Thank you for your patience.
Final status: PixelCommunity.com is now fully functional. Forums have been restored in last known state, BugTracker is missing bug reports for few weeks and we were not able to restore Wiki at all, so this one is starting from scratch.

Out of office

Administrator — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:36:45 +0000

Just to let you know I will be out of office for a week starting tommorrow. In case you have something important please contact me by e-mail until midnight today, otherwise you have to wait one week and few days for response. Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.

I wish you Happy New Year 2008!

Christmas sale

Administrator — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:04:01 +0000

Since Christmas is near again, I would like to offer you special Christmas sale again. You can get Pixel for $29 until Beta 8 is released (and that should be near). After Beta 8 is released I will be forced to recalculate USD price again, since american dollar is constantly falling compared to my local currency. Calculated from 1000 SKK, Pixel will cost approx $44 from Beta 8.

So I would like to thank you for all your patience and support of this project, and wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008!

Good news for Mac users

Administrator — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:07:08 +0000

Since I’ve got a little bit more time for development by releasing Beta 7, Pixel undergone really heavy bugfixing and polishing. There will be no more troubles with PowerPC releases always being behind because of lack of PPC hardware here. Pixel is an Universal Binary since Beta 8. Also its layout on Mac OS X is now changed from historic MDI concept to more native Mac-like layout and operation. From other changes it is worth mentioning it also works flawlessly on new Mac OS X 10.5 called Leopard. I also got some negative feedback on Pixel fonts in UI to be not so smooth as other native Mac apps, so Beta 8 is now using Apple Type Services to display all UI texts. For those interested here are some preliminary screenshots from Tiger and Leopard.

New community server

Administrator — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:31:11 +0000

New community server at http://www.pixelcommunity.com has been launched. Bug Tracker and Forums are moved to this server and old forums with all posts will be kept on original place in case anybody needs to search through old posts for help. This old forum is now officially deprecated and read-only, so no new posts or replies are allowed. New forum is starting from scratch, so the only inconvenience is a need to register again. It should perform way better than old forum, since it has many problems with spam and registrations.

Bug Tracker is only moved to new place with all accounts and reported bugs, so everything works as usual.

New feature on this server is Wiki. Feel free to edit it and add any Pixel related content, share your ideas, tutorials or your artwork. Enjoy!