Graphics Editor For OSX?

Might want to check here:

http://www.opensourcemac.org/

There is an app listed there called seashore and you will probably hate me for this as it is based on the Gimp but you may still be interested as this is the blurb on the site:

"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"

What kind of features are you looking for? All the following are fairly basic but useful.

Seashore: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/
Picturesque: http://www.acqualia.com/picturesque/
Skitch: http://plasq.com/skitch

Aidan

the kind of things I do:
- take screenshots
- resize images (including screenshots)
- cropping
- basic effects (like the fuzzy effect in this sites header)
- optimising

Michele

You can take screenshots with skitch or with the Grab applications in Applications/Utilities.

I think most of the other features you mention are in Seashore or iPhoto. Picturesque is mainly for adding effects to photos.

You could also look into Darwine or Crossover Mac, both of which let you run SOME Windows applications on MacOS (one is commercial, one free). If you already have a copy of whatever app you like using and it's supported, that might be a reasonable option.

I just checked; Fireworks MX (though not MX 2004) apparently works on the latest version of Crossover Mac (the commercial one). You could download the free trial and give it a go.

Rob

Most of the Macromedia (now Adobe) products are available as native Mac versions as well :)

M

@Aidan - Skitch isn't available to the public at the moment :(

I have some skitch invites - if you want one (or anyone else reading this wants one) send your email address to aidanf at gmail.

Aidan - Cool! I popped you a quick email about it just now

Michele

You want GraphicConverter by Lemke Design. It's inexpensive, has decent tools for optimising and handles nearly every image format known to man.

Apple used to bundle it on their Pro line.

Here are some graphic editors, free and commercial. Hope it helps.

http://en.softonic.com/list/811

Nice list :)

Thanks!

My pleasure!

Hopefully you'll find something of use.

Cheers,
Paul.

Well there is always VmWare Fusion, then you can always just throw on what ever windows software you like, so If you have photoshop for Windows, it will work seemlessly on your mac.

I agree with you about the Gimp. On OSX it's rubbish. Firstly it's not a native OSX application, you have to run it under X11. Firstly it looks different from other applications (It's a different widget set). Lots of interapplication communication doesn't work, such as copy and paste and command-tab to cycle between windows.

Try it out and be disgusted.

@Eoin - Photoshop would be overkill, but if I _really_ needed it there is an OS X version

@Rory - I've tried the Gimp on Linux and Windows and I don't like it one bit. I know some people are very comfortable with it, but I've never been able to deal with it.

I've user this stuff on the mac and its pretty good.

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/

Joe

So that's for doing flowcharts and the like?

It looks interesting.

I'm getting a very interesting collection of bookmarks :)

Michele