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15 Sep 2008As 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.
RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing and photo retouching for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and others.
74 Responses to Pixel 1.0 final release
przemoc
September 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I just cannot believe it. At last there will be stable (because final requires to be really stable) version? Great news Pavel!
Legibe
September 15th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
You RoX!!!
Great job!!!!! : )))
Lennart
September 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Euh? What?
Wooww!Wonderfull news! I can’t wait for the 1.0 version!
solitaire
September 16th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Great news. Thanks for the update.
Wulf
September 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
“information about … prices and so on.” -> hope this doesn’t mean that registred beta users have to pay again then!!!
Marko
September 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Hmmm… first see, then believe. Remember the Christmas release that never came…
Josh Faulkner
September 17th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Good to hear, Pavel! I knew you’d come through!
Krs
September 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Hope April, 30th 2009 will not be a joke again…
gebruiksbesluit
September 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Good to hear this news, but still sceptical. As earlyer said, first see then beleave.
Sean4000
September 19th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Well, this is certainly good news. Let’s hope is holds true and that come April 30th 2009, Photoshop gets serious competition. Best of luck.
V.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Well, in this case i am nearly ready to purchase a licence, but i am still missing a real 64bit linux binary (as i do not have any other system on my workstation). Please, give us at least beta 8 to be able to compare it against Gimp.
Graeme Geldenhuys
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
When you say “final version”, I hope you mean v1 of Pixel, and not final as in the “last ever version” of Pixel?
Either way, great news that the project is getting some sponsorship!
africanforest
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Nice words, but still just words.
As for Pixel, I only believe in facts.
And there a absolutely no new FACTS so far. Today is September 22nd, 2008.
PiotreQ
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
bla bla bla, where is new beta ?
africanforest
September 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Interesting to see how my comments get deleted where some critisism is expressed.
jan
September 28th, 2008 at 12:41 am
erm…. by the
“then there will be new version released every year”
and
“including all updates until next major release (2.0) and for all supported platforms. Once it is finished price will go higher to $89.”
so, it means we pay for one year usage, then the next year april 30 2010 will cost us $89?
well…i hope 1.0 final will be at least be as good as photoshop is now (cs3) and since adobe has it’s own software for cutting websites i would like to see that feature embedded in pixel 1.0 too…
so far it seems pixel has been sold, at least in my opinion, that’s good and bad. i hope the investor will still be producing linux versions aswell.
so much for now from me
Administrator
September 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
This investor will be doing only marketing, sales and first level support. Pixel wasn’t sold, I’m responsible for the development and as I mentioned I established new company to do just this. Regarding upgrades, they won’t cost you full price once you paid for Pixel. Frankly, this price has to be decided yet, but I think it won’t be more than 50% of full price. Also $89 price might be a little bit lower as well, marketing team will decide on this…
bilbo
September 29th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
don’t take it personal, but sorry, i don’t believe a word!
floogy
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
Like bilbo said: Yes, it’s hard to believe, due to your bad communication attitude during the developement process, sad to say, though it is…
floogy
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
…that bad.
Membris Khan
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Wow! I’m impatient!!
Gutter
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Wow, I hope that the marketing team is good, Pixel’s author image need to be scrubbed clean!
Jacek
October 15th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Seeing is believing
Matthew
October 16th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
that’s great! Looking forward to seeing it.
David
October 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Congrats, Pavel. Your hard work will be paying off! Without steady support, it has taken some time but still pixel is good and has great potential. We’ll complain for sure about delays and wanting more, but I think you’re used to that by now
chiquito de la calzada
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
we need beta 8, please
Bob
October 24th, 2008 at 3:31 am
So basically you are considering breaking your existing verbal contract with your paying users (e.g. to not charge us for updates from 1.0-2.0) or am I just misunderstanding this and you’ll keep the existing contract?
Pavel Kanzelsberger
October 24th, 2008 at 8:11 am
I will not break contract with existing customers, their licenses continue to be valid and customers are entitled to all updates without paying again.
Bruno
October 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Will you keep on supporting all Operating Systems you support now?
Art
November 6th, 2008 at 5:18 am
When will be a stable version 1.0 of Pixel, I have beta 7 but more options don’t work properly, and program crashes every time
Jack
November 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Does this mean that we will be loosing support for GNU/Linux? If this new person decides to stop selling the GNU/Linux version it’ll be a real shame.
Pavel Kanzelsberger
November 11th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
No worries about the Linux version, this one will continue in 32-bit and 64-bit flavour for x86 platforms. Originally marketing team wasn’t interested in Linux version, but I will surely develop it and they have to sell it
To explain, new “investor” is not taking over the company. They will just do the worldwide marketing and sales, as well as first level support.
Edgar Bueltemeyer
November 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hello, is it planned to release beta 8 for OSX/Intel? I have serious problems with beta 7. btw. beta 7 was released 2006-11-28. So NO new version since 2 years! That´s hard..
Alexander Ewering
November 16th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Whoops! 34 Comments => 33 Comments …
Pavel Kanzelsberger
November 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Alexander: Yeah, since I prefer truth rather than lies
Pjotr
November 26th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Hi,
I like the feel and look, but cr2 (raw) files don’t seem to be processed correctly. Will that be better in your final release?
Regards,
Pjotr
SLegrand
November 30th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Great news. I was starting to lose faith and patience in this. I rarely use anything but “proven and tested” software, but when pixel came out, I just had to support the initiative of creating a linux image editor that photoshop users can use. So I paid. 2 years with no new release made me regret this. So hopefully, this will be what I was waiting for. A real push to muscle into photoshop’s market. I guarantee you that if you’re serious about it and keep building it for linux you’ll have some pretty major clients knocking at your door. Think weta, dreamworks, pixar, ilm, sony. All these companies are in dire need of this kind of tool.
netsurf
December 7th, 2008 at 8:28 am
So is there any chance of a new beta to people who have already bought the program? i really enjoyed how much potential this software had and spoke with my money. So i would appreciate a new beta soon just so i can see how it is coming along.
Mike K
December 15th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Wow! Pixel really is the perfect cross platform tool!
I’ve been developing games professionally for nearly as long as Pixel has been in development, and I am long overdue for something to replace my trusty old of Paint Shop Pro (with something other than Corel’s butchered result, Adobe’s Monster, and Gimpy Gimp).
I regularly bounce between each of the major 3 platforms, so I was thrilled to discover this. I primarily work on Windows, and really only found 2 things that are holding me back. Tablet Support, and Image File support.
1. My Wacom Intuos 3 currently does nothing with the App loaded. Obviously there’s something already in place, it’s just not working with my setup yet.
2. PSD files and TIF files generated by Sketchbook Pro don’t seem to load correctly.
Pretty much as soon as I can use my tablet and load my assets, you can count me in for a sale. PSP/PSPImage or Layered TIFF support would be icing on the cake, but I can work around it.
If you’d like some example assets that don’t load, feel free to contact me. I’d be glad to help.
Keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to the next beta.
- Mike
Mike K
December 15th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Oops… I misread and assumed Pixel’s development lifetime has been the past 10 years or from the copyright link at the bottom, but still. Great program with huge potential.
Xushi
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
“There will be a new version every year”
So in other words, the license we’ll be purchasing will only grant us our privileges for 1 year? So we have to pay $50 each year to get a new license in order to have the upgrades?
Will the previous version still be maintained? Or will we be forced to upgrade to later and later versions to see features and bug fixes?
This is slowly turning to sound like MS and Adobe to me… Ironic.
Alexander Ewering
January 4th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Hrms… not meaning to be overly impatient, but the initial announcement of the ‘deal’ is now almost 4 months old, and no news about it. Not meaning to me overly pessimistic either, eh, but past experience has taught me (and probably others) to be slightly alarmed at delays
Mads Nygaard Pedersen
February 10th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
I think it is great news if Pavel succeeds – unfornunately the timing for seeking investors at this point for any project is incredibly bad. World is in recession.
On the other hand – keeping a positive mind. A stable version of Pixel should be a great incitament for any investor if the pricing remains reasonable.
I am one of those early beta testers and though I admire and appreciate Pavel’s efforts on this project – I still think Pavel ought to have considered putting an open source verion on track and sell a supported version + documentation and services on the side. This model would speed up the development phase considerably and ensure Pixel to be mora than a mere Photoshop close.
Best of luck – and look forward to see the grand opening not many months away now.
/Mads
Alexander Ewering
February 14th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Let’s hope this project hasn’t been “Kanzeled”
Membris Khan
February 18th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I can’t wait! I want some feedback since 15 sept!!
Alexander Ewering
February 21st, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Just 2 months till the final release… can’t wait
… any betas? 
Alexander Ewering
March 15th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hmmmm, deal is not yet signed/finished, but only 6 weeks till release… LOOKS LIKE HE’S IN A HURRY
Xushi
March 17th, 2009 at 9:29 am
“I can’t wait! I want some feedback since 15 sept!!”
Heh, lucky you
I’ve been waiting for some feedback since 15 sept… 2006 
Alexander Ewering
March 17th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I guess the author feels really happy being the showmaster of this comedy
Pavel Kanzelsberger
March 20th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Sorry for not updating the news, I’m too busy with development until we get this released. Anyway contract has been signed in September and is in progress. After final release Pixel will probably get new name, new website, new forums and so on. All purchased licenses are of course valid and eligible for free update to final version. At first version for Windows, Linux (32/64) and MacOSX is released as ESD, later also retail version. Stay tuned. Thanks.
Josh
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 am
It’s happening this month! I’m excited!
Alexander Ewering
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Josh: I won’t hold my breath
Marko
April 8th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Ah… now I understand why we aren’t hearing much. Pixel has been renamed and has been at another web page! So, does anyone know where we can find the new still nameless wonderful multi platform image editor?
Alexander Ewering
April 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Marko: Didn’t you hear him – release date is set for April 29th
There “might” be a few betas – not there “will” 
No, honestly: I, like pretty much everybody else with a sane way of thinking, do not believe that anything will be released on April 29th – but – I’ve always been a dreamer… so…
Josh
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 am
I’m tingling with excitement! I’m working myself into a frenzy! I’ll start the countdown…
8…
Josh
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
7…
Sean4000
April 24th, 2009 at 7:47 am
6…
Alexander Ewering
April 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
5.5…
Sean4000
April 25th, 2009 at 6:24 am
4
Sean4000
April 25th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Oops, I meant.
5…
Sean4000
April 26th, 2009 at 8:00 am
4…
jan
April 26th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
It’s actually 5 today, following your counter, there will be 0 days left on 30th which is wrong(there will be 1 day left on the 30th). final release occurs on May 1st. At least according to Pavel’s Post.
Josh
April 27th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Jan,
Considering that there are multiple time zones, when it is Wednesday AM in Europe, it is still Tuesday PM in the Americas. So, when I started the countdown, there were eight days left until release day (April 30th – I’m not exactly sure where you read May 1st) in the Eastern Time Zone in the Western Hemisphere. So, the 22nd (the date it was in my time zone) was 8 days until release day.
The 23rd is 7 til.
The 24th is 6 til.
The 25th is 5 til.
The 26th is 4 til.
The 27th is 3 til.
The 28th is 2 til.
The 29th is 1 til.
The 30th is release day!
So, since today is the 27th (early AM Eastern Time Zone), I’ll go ahead and resume the countdown…
3…
Sean4000
April 27th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Thankx josh, beat me to it.
Alexander Ewering
April 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Just a little question: I started the countdown in pure sarcasm. Does anyone here actually *REALLY* believe that there will ever be a release?
Sean4000
April 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Maybe, maybe not. I am just ahving a little fun with the countdown, nothing more. If there is a release on the 30 then hurray. If not, Pixel will be dead to me.
Josh
April 29th, 2009 at 12:40 am
2…
Josh
April 29th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
1…
Sean4000
April 30th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Not much time left. ……
jan
April 30th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Josh, geez now i’m looking at the news, it actually is 30th. i can’t bet my head on it but someone said it was going to be May 1st. Sorry for that. Oh well, the earlier the better
Can’t wait.
Sean4000
April 30th, 2009 at 9:37 am
And…….0. Time’s up.
Alexander Ewering
April 30th, 2009 at 11:53 am
You know, I still don’t know who’s the bigger idiot – Pavel Kanzelsberger or the ones who actually fall for this scam
jan
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 am
-3
will we have any explanation or news why there is no pixel after april 30th ? (this is the question to the site administrator)
Alexander Ewering
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 am
@jan: Yes, the same one as the last 3 years:
“Release of Pixel is delayed slightly but will be released as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience”.