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.
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….called LiveQuartz. I just installed and and did a quick look into it….first impression is great. I guess it could be enough for many home-users.
About the application:
LiveQuartz is a simple and powerful free photo editor for Leopard. It is based on non-destructive layers and ï lters. The layers are at the left and the ï lters are at the right of the window.
LiveQuartz is offered by rhapsoft
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Another Free Image Editor for Mac Os X called Seashore
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Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.
However, unlike the GIMP, Seashore only aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to provide a replacement for professional image editing products. Seashore was created by Mark Pazolli who, together with a handful of other developers and helpful users, still develops it to this day.
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