Seashore is an easy-to-use open source image editor for Cocoa
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes.
Seashore is a tool that supports multiple layers and individual channel editing. Seashore is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format. Seashore is still undergoing development.
Main features of Seashore:Full support for the GIMP's native XCF file format
Read and write support for the TIFF, PNG, JPEG and JP2000 file formats
Read-only support for the BMP, PICT, PDF, XBM and GIF file formats
Layers with over 20 merging effects
· Individual primary and alpha channel editing
· Thorough transparency effects including semi-transparent gradients
· Arbitrary selection regions
· Anti-aliased brush strokes
· 6 basic gradient effects with 16 variations
· Tablet support
· ColorSync support (including embedded profiles in TIFFs and CMYK previewing)
· Plug-in filters
Most features work on Mac OS 10.3 and later, with the exception of JP2000 support for which Mac OS 10.4 is required.
What's New in This Release:
Makes Seashore a universal binary
Fixes a bug that caused the program to produce dull colours for some TIFF files and when flattening an image
Fixes a bug that caused floating layers to appear incorrectly when working with channels
Fixes a bug when rotating images on Mac OS 10.3
Fixes a bug that made large TIFF files unreadable on Mac OS 10.3
Adds write support for GIFs
Adds Hue, Saturation and Value plug-in
Adds CMYK plug-in
Adds the clone tool
Adds the ability to check for updates
Adds aspect ratio setting to selection tools
Adds ellipse tool
Adds polygon lasso tool
Adds anti-aliasing to lasso tool
Adds non-modal new document panel
Adds selection operations
Adds the ability to create new documents with a transparent background
Scales the new document window to the content size (plus border)
Removes crop tool (now part of rectangular selection tool)
Improves plug-in capabilities
Retains EXIF data for JPEGs (Mac OS 10.4 only)