macfidelity

While mentioning Seashore and Livequartz i realized i have never written about GIMP, “the mother of open-source image editors”.

One major downside of Gimp on Mac OS X is:

the Running GIMP on Mac OS X requires Apple’s X11 environment. It is included on the “Optional Installs” package on the OS X install disk.

From my point of view no real problem as i do have X11 anyways.

I do know Gimp since my Linux days and it was always a great image-editor, if you arent pre-doomed by some of those big major image-editing apps like Adobe Photoshop or similar.

It might feel like a slow-starting app while the initial launch, but the second start was quite fast on my Mac Pro compared to the first one.

Links:

• Gimp for Macintosh

• Mac ::: The Gutenprint project
• Mac ::: Another image editor
• Mac :::Another free image editor

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