One of the applications I was dying to try when I got my MacBook Pro was Pixelmator. This is a low-cost image editing application for the Mac that aggressively integrates MacOS-specific features such as iSight camera input, an integrated Photo Browser, as well as integration with OS-level technologies like Automator and the Quartz Graphics Layer.
Pixelmator is not really a poor man’s Adobe Photoshop as it might appear at first glance. This is a better integrated, more Mac-specific image editor than Photoshop.
A Pixelmator license is $59 after a 30-day trial period. I like the program and consider it worth the money. The issue is that I expect to be able to use the application and its output during the trial period. When I tried to use it on the day I downloaded it, the program watermarked my images with “Created with Pixelmator”.
I think Pixelmator Team has used the watermark trick too aggressively. It makes more sense to me to have a trial period where output is true, and have the watermark present only in the images created after the trial period is over.