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

….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

Links:

• LiveQuartz Homepage
• LiveQuartz Screenshots
• LiveQuartz Videos