Evaluating Pixelmator as a Photoshop Replacement

As I'm currently between video projects and our IT department has given away my license for Photoshop, I'm trying out Pixelmator as a very cheap alternative. As most of the image processing I end up doing ends up being used in either Motion or FCPX as video assets, so it needs to be able to handle high quality potentially large files and produce vector based graphics for print.

£10 on the App Store! 

Thoughts so far - The UI is nice, icons expand when selected and the look and feel of the menu system is very similar to Photoshop for all you pro's. There seem to be hundres of effects/filters you can apply (no auto draw for crap artists like me!)

Must remember to lay off the shrooms when testing Image editing software...

So many effects to choose from, but as I've not got any projects on at the moment, I've not got anything to test it on really. Looks like a good investment for £10. Watch this space