I bought and downloaded Pixelmator after a recommendation and short demo from my friend Andrew Woods. It’s a beautiful image editing program for Mac that at $59 is a superb replacement for Photoshop. And on top of their low price, I saved $10 by finding a coupon through RetailMeNot, a site I would always recommend everyone check before finishing a checkout on any purchase. The above was my first experiment playing around for a few minutes with Pixelmator and so far I’m very impressed. Anyone familiar with Photoshop will have no problem finding the tools intuitive and superior to Gimp in its elegance. (Though, I should mention that Gimp is free… so there’s that. But you get what you pay for, as Valor always says.)

Oh yes, and… about the picture itself… :-) I love living in a country where one is free to photoshop the leader of the free world into ridiculous jokes. Life is good.

Photo Meme, originally uploaded by firewallender.

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair – just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.