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Arstechnica bietet aus gegebenem Anlass ein ausführliches Review zur aktuellen Version von Photoshop.

A third dimension: Ars reviews Photoshop CS4 Extended

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Bei Adobe gibt es ein interessantes Video über ein neues Feature in Photoshop CS4 - Content Aware Scaling.

Ich sag nur “Volkswagen”

Umbedingt anschauen wenn Photoshop das Werkzeug eurer Wahl ist.

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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

Another Free Image Editor for Mac Os X called Seashore

Quote:

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.

Links:

• Seashore Homepage
• Seashore Download
• GIMP Homepage
• Wikipedia about GIMP

Read the review here.

quote:

It’s hard to believe that over two years have passed since Aperture’s launch. It seems like only yesterday that I was fielding e-mails from livid zealots and supportive professional photographers regarding my less-than-glowing review of the buggy, unfinished mess that was Aperture 1.0 (and see our follow-up look at Aperture 1.1). But much has changed in those two years, including a price drop from $500 to $200 to compete with Adobe’s Lightroom. By version 1.5, most of the problems, missing features, and RAW quality issues were addressed.

But there was still one area widely acknowledged to need improvement: speed. Users of Lightroom often cite its general responsiveness and background processing as the main reason for picking it over Aperture. It’s no secret that even after Apple’s many tweaks, this was still a big issue with Aperture 1.5.

This is where Aperture 2.0 steps in. Apple has also overhauled the RAW engine in 2.0, and, combined with the speed upgrade and Quick Preview, they probably felt that it was time to give Aperture a shiny new number without all the baggage of the old one……….