hmmm not running on vista home premium 32bit…

no, nothing, i removed totaly previors version and user data – the same, runing as admin, the same, log file is not changed. In AppData\Local\Pixel i have only pixel.rg and pixel.usr files…

Did you forgot the linux update? There are only new versions for windows + macos.

Thanks!

You must all have supernatural capabilities, because I don’t see a single new download anywhere.

hmmm can’t activate – pixel generating code, i entered my login and passwd, getting code, quit, running again and not activate, and now in my account i have Error: Too many licenses generated

Oh OK, I didn’t know that it’s automatically clear that everyone who reads the news is a member. My bad

Please in such case mail me any details you have including some screenshot.

Pavel i send you mail with details and screenshots

Just installed the new release and it’s working fine with me.

To be able to use the swatches and palettes is what I’ve been waiting for! =D

Tried installing it over the previous version but found out that I needed to get the Reg. Code again. But no big problem!

Gonna use it for work to see how it goes!

Thanks again, Pavel!

P.s.: Hey, again, is there any way I can help or support? Like, translating (Brazilian Portuguese only >_<)?

@Michel

The registration screen isn’t appearing for you?

I just downloaded it from the members area and registered from within Pixel (through the first run registration window).

See ya!

@Pavel

Thanks again for the update!

And, one more question: is it possible to change the color palette in the status bar?

Thanks again!

Same problem als Gilbert. I am logged in and when I want to download, it took me to purchase. I bought pixel some years ago…

Well, if you download Demo it will take you to Purchase page, right after the download starts. If the download doesn’t start it is a problem with browser and in such case please try another browser.

However if you’re paid customer, you don’t have to download Demo version, please go to Members area and download there.

I retried again with Chrome and the download worked. Thanks for that.

Ah and what about the Linux 64bit version?

Hello,

Just downloaded and tried Linux version. Works like a charm ..

I only needed to install libstdc++.so.5. Maybe a tip for others on linux: run Pixel from the CLI, so you can see if you’re missing dependencies.

#33: Probably, Pavel assumes that Pixel is installed under an Administrator account (the usual “Home PC I have no idea” situation).

A lot of cheap software is written in non-standard ways so that it doesn’t work under a restricted account.

Nice, this version is really more stable than previous one.

I also had a small problem with registration, but using authentication code stored in “%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Pixel\pixel.rg” (because Get Code didn’t work) for generating new number in members area gives proper result, i.e. accepted by application. Of course you can just copy this file along with pixel.usr to “%APPDATA%\Pixel Studio Pro” and it should also solve the problem, but I wanted to be sure that the old way still works and it does partially.

I got also a warning of TR/Crypt.ASPM.Gen (krm.dll ?) with avira, but only if I scan the directory with avast (then avira finds the trojan in the temp directory of avast).

This might be a false positive, I don’t know.

Nevertheless thank you for providing the new demo pavel.

Yes it is a false positive, pixel.exe is packer related and same goes for activate.exe, but this one is also suspicious because it’s small and connects to internet.

‘/home/alfonz/programy/Pixel/pixel’
An unhandled exception occurred at $080A0AF9 :
EAccessViolation : Access violation
$080A0AF9
$080ACD0A
$080B0798
$0804C75A

when i clicked at other function than text, pixel crashed leaved this
(linux, ubuntu 9.04)

Alexander Ewering Says:
October 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
#33: Probably, Pavel assumes that Pixel is installed under an Administrator account (the usual “Home PC I have no idea” situation).

A lot of cheap software is written in non-standard ways so that it doesn’t work under a restricted account.

It’s not about cheap or expensive software. Pixel is installable with restricted account, but it’s up on user. If he try to install as restricted to system protected folder (Program Files), IMO it is normal, that system do not allow this. I installed Pixel to the removable flash drive and everything worked fine. Under restricted user, of course.
BTW. Adobe Photoshop on Mac needs to be installed on case insensitive filesystem. Otherwise it fails. That’s definitelly non-standard way on Macs and I don’t think, Photoshop is cheap software.

Alexander Ewering: Normal situation for me is that under restricted account SW let me install only for my account and if I log in as admin, it installs for everyone using that computer. I pretend user accounts are strictly separated, of course (that was pain in past versions of Windows). I like the situation on Mac. Usually you have application and you can drop it, wherever you want. So I you want it for all users, you drop it to /Applications (and of course, you must type admin pass), but you can easily leave it in /Users/(your_account)/Applications.

Bahh heavy moderating. Nice Pavel :/

I’m Ubuntu 9.10 user.
Unfortunately I cannot run Pixel. If try, I receive the announcement:
“./pixel: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”

libstdc++ at version 5 isnt normally present in my distro, so i must to install it manually. I have libstdc++.so.5 file at /usr/lib/ folder, but it’s still nothing…

Enybody can help me?

@51 see my post @32. Just install the missing dependecies

Ok, Linux build 741 is ready for download, no more troubles with libstdc++…

Great! Now all is working perfectly!

But one more problem:

I already a long time ago purchased the licence for Pixel (over the year ago) and I lost the mail with the information about the code and the login name. How can I regain them? To announce data of my company?

too late

Sorry

On OSX lost SOME of the saved prefs

Well, and where is a real x86_64 Linux build? You promised it years ago!

I just fixed some minor issues with the downloads, now it should work for every browser…

#65: …but still better and much more usable than Pixel.

Thank you floogy for the link. I was too late to poste .

Usually the Windows users don’t read Manuals ):.

Maybe you two could try trolling again when gimp can edit full and half-float exr?

Pavel- I know you caught a lot of crap from some people over your desire to make money for your work, and no small amount of grief over the delays in newer versions. I’m sorry you went through that. I want you to know I still think it’s a great application, and that you’re entitled to receipts for the work you’ve done imo.

This current version works well, though I, like some others had trouble getting it installed in windows 7, I did ultimately get it installed however.

at some point I’d like to find a way to correspond with you, I purchased two licenses back around beta 4’s release. I had thought one license per OS installation at the time, and didn’t know you made it available for multiple installations. If possible, I’d like to come up with some sort of amicable solution to the extra money I paid for the second copy. Perhaps a discount on Ver 2.0 or something? IDK, I have both receipts so I can verify it. one is physical, one email…hopefully someone can write a good guide to using it still. bon chance.

#70
…tell us what software you are using, Sir?

It is basically. For example Linux applications can run on FreeBSD but you need a Linux layer. And this is not a native FreeBSD app.

@#66

In what way? Pixel is at least usable. Gimp is slow, has an unwieldy and horrible interface (that includes the various flavors), can’t be used for a production environment, and has pretty much ruined most opportunities for any good open source image editing packages coming to the forefront because of its undeserved popularity.

Gimp is a black mark on the face of the open source community to anyone serious about image editing of any kind.

FreeBSD version is native, it doesn’t need Linux layer.

I tried the latest Haiku, but I’m getting horrible crashes, and I think it’s due to mixed gcc 3 and 4 environment. I’ll have a look again, but I need to find and install the right libraries I need.

#80

Yes, Pavel but the version for FreeBSD is Pixel 1.0 Beta 6 553 Intel FreeBSD 2006-09-25

A little old IMO.

#83

Just for you:

http://gimp-university.blogspot.com/2009/04/gimp-vs-photoshop-revisited.html

http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-04-22/can-gimp-replace-photoshop.html

And BTW: do you think that each sofware should looks like a Photoshop? Or Winbloze?

#81

The fact that there’s nothing decent in the way of image edit software that runs native in Linux yet is the main reason I haven’t switched. I’ve tried a wide variety of image editors for Windows, Mac, and Linux. All the ones I tried for Linux were either too limited or have a poorly designed user interface (and the best I used certainly wasn’t Gimp). On the other hand I only ran into a few on Mac and Win with those problems and that includes low cost and free software. I actually don’t use Photoshop at all at this point.

I’ve tried about four different flavors of Gimp, and tried using them extensively. I spent more time fighting the interface than actually producing anything. I don’t care what interface from what program it emulates or doesn’t emulate, I just want it to be usable, not something I have to fight constantly or fight eye fatigue from the visual clutter of. I have to give the peeps who made Gimp credit for making something with that many options for free, but that doesn’t mean it’s all good. It wasn’t hard to find anything in Gimp, shortcuts were easy, and I use plenty of programs with non-standard user interface configurations… So no troubles there. The UI is just poorly designed, plain and simple. The window ordering has to be fought with in every flavor in both Windows and Mac, simple actions take many more dialog boxes than necessary, it’s a chore to make sure a pen tablet functions properly in it, actions that should be accomplishable through the mouse alone require extra keys to be pressed even though performing the action with just the mouse conflicts with no other bahaviour, and the list goes on and on. The interface is counter intuitive and filled with mistakes that would only be made by someone that doesn’t have usability in mind when designing it. Not to mention it performs many simple operations much slower, that’s a bit more forgivable though since application optimization is challenging.

Your general attitude is exactly why I’m not too keen on the open source or Linux community. The geek in me wants to love them and I’ve played with quite a lot of the things they have to offer, but the high and mighty attitude keeps leading to dissapointment. You put your fingers in your ears and assume what I’m saying is I want Photoshop for free, when what I’m really saying is that every user interface I’ve used for Gimp so far is crap. Not only that but almost every Gimp supporter I’ve run across has this attitude, which is why it’s not getting any better.

So far Pixel is the most promising looking thing for Linux I’ve seen. I still don’t like the interface, but at least it’s a decently designed one.

Photoshop also pops up editing dialogs.
Ok, I also think that the filemanager should be the standard filemanager of the OS (maybe enhanced by preview, info etc. stuff). But on gnome/linux it integrates the standard OS way.

I don’t like your attitude to negate the good points on some software and call it crap.

I work since Photoshop v4 with the so called “industry standard” in image editing, and I found a few of disadvantages even in the newest CS4 version, even though it’s superior to the most image editing software out there.

Hi i have now tryed PAINT.net its Freeware paint aplication its, work pretty cool know it someone other too? i hope Pixel studio pro will be soon

Nevermind, I apologize Alexander. Krita is the only decent image editing software that supports CMYK (I should have looked before I opened my damn mouth). Had I ever bothered to look (which I did today), Pixel only offers output to it’s native file format and RAW (how does one convert this to something like TIFF and keep the CMYK when ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick will not recognize it and most any other non-proprietary application will try to convert it to an RGB colorspace?) when you change the image mode to CMYK. I will, in time, fill in the hole in “for-print” graphics editing software in time: I promise. I will not cease learning and experimenting until I can do so.
Until then, use Krita and make sure you specify an ISO colorspace.

Well, “Web Coated” or “Web Uncoated”, depending on the paper you intend to print on.
The ICC profiles are not only for Windows, and are free:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3680

Hi, I am also one of those who bought this software to use it on Haiku/BeOS. I was wondering when the Haiku version will be released?

Does anyone know how to contact Pavel? He haven’t responsed any of my emails during past weeks. I would really want my version of Pixel soon…

Email sent to provided email address. Waiting for your fast reply.

Pavel, I sent you three emails in the past 6 months asking for new password for my account. I had a HDD crash and lost all my data. Also since buying your sofware the domain with the email I resistered expired and I can not automatically retrieve my data.

Please help

Somehow the domain mediaware.sk expired, so nothing comes through, I’m working on it.

With somehow I mean I wasn’t notified, usually I get notification e-mails several weeks before any domain expires… I don’t have time for “managing” domains, I simply rely on notification e-mail.

Working very well on Ubuntu 9.10, no apparent problems. Will their be a Debian repo in the future?

The only area now lacking is realtime transform tools for rotating, scaling and distorting – will they make it into the next release?

@Pavel/Administrator

Hi, Pavel!

Just sent the e-mail, but since I didn’t get a response, I’m putting some things I asked there, here:

- I’d like to know if there’s a way to change the color swatches in the status bar. And how to add/create more swatches;

- When using the native dialog mode, I can’t see any files. Is it normal?

- When using Pixel to do some pixelart, the brush (1px) normally draws two pixels (diagonal, horizontal or vertical). Is it going to change in the final version? Or am I doing everything the wrong way?

Thanks!

See ya!

Re: @Grumbly & @Alexander

The GUI for the interface of gimp is one of the known caveats of the program and you might want to know there is a project that aims to improve that. The UI gets under my skin too considering the power that the program seems to have underneath.

http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign

@Pavel, I’m glad to see there’s a release. I haven’t tested it that much yet but it’s much more stable than before. I could foresee me using this in a production environment in the future but first I need to see that you’re not going to abandon this… so it’s going to take about a year of communicating on your part with a minimum of bi-monthly updates. More would be appreciated.