Compositor is an innovative graphic design package which supports over 165 filter and channel effects. The product from “Artly There Software” is powerful substitute for Photoshop which is also very low priced as well as full featured software. Compositor has a full-fledged photo compositing function that has many unique features, not available in any other software.

Key Features

• The interface and menu structure in Compositor is pretty similar to that of Photoshop 3.0. This also includes the lack of easily accessible layer features and also relatively bleak mechanism for changing image orientation and shape.
• Thought the graphics formats supported by Compositor are limited, it supports most of the basic formats as well as can save files as Adobe PDFs and Photoshop PSDs.
• Compositor allows users to export sequence of images as QuickTime movies. The software offer animation capabilities to these images which even Photoshop doesn’t offer.
• Compositor provides many unique color features including enhanced color picking tools and also supports various types of color palette including CMYK. There is also an impressive brush palette which has many option included in it.
• Compositor has many large varieties of ‘filters’ and ‘actions’ that is even better than the ones in Photoshop. There is also some unique features for animation of images for users to play around. Though these features are not full featured, it does offer users with several impressive features.
• Compositor has a large range of organic stock footage clips that are shot at high speed, pre-matted clips and much easy access using the software.
• The newly added virtual clipboard supports images much larger in size (even 4095 pixels wide or larger).
• Another unique feature is the added History-file recovery feature, which helps in recovering from where user had left off incase of software been quit.
• Though the demo version of Compositor is limited, the full version is worth considering, if you are looking for a Photoshop alternative which can also perform some video work. Compositor is supported by Mac OS X 10.2.2 or later.

The Verdict

Compositor is by no doubt a powerful replacement for Photoshop. The software has a much affordable price and even supports videos to be made from images. Software is full featured and has interface much similar to that of Photoshop so users can easily adapt to that too. Do try it and get impressed yourself!!!