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[Theobroma Cacao] Theocacao: A Look at the Acorn Image Editor: I'd tossed up the idea of buying Acorn - I have access to Photoshop from my work due to a site license agreement, but it is way over the top for what I need - which Preview can do 90% of. There is some stuff where a little more tools are required, and I'd tried out Acorn when it first came out, and then again after I'd upgraded to Leopard.

[Low End Mac] New Iris 1.0 Image Editor Not Quite Ready for Prime Time: developer Digimage Arts also offers what appears to be an"on steroids" version of the software called Enhance 4.0, for $99.95that supports 16 levels of Undo/Redo, multiple layers, full support forPhotoshop-compatible filters, export and acquire plugins (includingmultiple-acquire), pressure-sensitive tablets, and drag-and-drop.Professionals will appreciate CMYK four-color separations, advanced8-bit masking, 33 built-in filters including convolution filters,levels, curves, and unsharp masking, and the ability to paint patternsas easily as solid colors. Sounds great, although I haven't had theopportunity to test it.

[Jettison Canopy] Image Is Everything | Jettison Canopy: You can set Acorn to show the startup window, remember which documents were open, make a new layer for shapes and keep those shapes selected, automatically check for updates, set a keyboard shortcut for taking screenshots and set an image format for file actions. Optionally, you can set the full screen background colour, the height of the rows for each layer in the tool palette, suppress the layers warning when saving files that don’t support layers, create a thumbnail icon of the document and hide the canvas border.

[Pixelmator | Weblog] Pixelmator | Weblog | Pixelmator Team Releases Pixelmator: Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images. […]

[Jettison Canopy] The New Wave | Jettison Canopy: I splurged on Pixelmator today, but I think I’m going to ask for a refund. Maybe I’m too attached to Photoshop, but doing web mockups is what I do 99% of the time and the default Cocoa text control palettes just don’t cut it for even semi-serious typography.

[Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials] Flying Girl in Photoshop | Abduzeedo - design inspiration and ...: The process is quite similar to the Pixelmator version, of course each tool has some pros and cons, but the best thing is that the idea of the filters and blend modes are the same. Actually all these types of tools share the same sort of base so if you know one it's pretty easy to learn and use another.

[John Nack on Adobe] John Nack on Adobe: Dr. Woohoo & the future of the Suite platform: Thank you Adobe for understanding that it would not make people very happy if your software were installed onto our systems only to start trying to reinvent the look, feel, flow, and overall usability of our system, a system that has been honed by absolute experts to be consistent and reliable across a multitude of applications and not just your image processing capablities. So thanks again Adobe for not barging onto our systems and trying to disrupt and undo the refined user experience so carefully designed and crafted by our Operating System gurus, something that you have never been good at anyways, hence clearing the path for you to focus on what you do best, help users to process images!

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