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Photo Editing Options When iPhoto Isn’t Enough

Written on April 28, 2009 by Charles Moore and 4 people have commented

A relative of mine recently got a fairly sophisticated digital camera and sought my counsel on what sort of photo correction and image editing software to use. He’s been getting along with the version of iPhoto that OS 10.4 installed on his G5 iMac, but he’s not finding it to be quite adequate for the [...]

Pixelmator GPU Powered Image Editor for OS X

Written on February 24, 2009 by Charles Moore and 6 people have commented

Last month, reinstalling Leopard on my G4 PowerBook broke Photoshop Elements 6, and one reason I’ve been able to procrastinate about the necessary application reinstall (there oughta be a better way, Adobe — nothing else broke) is that Pixelmator is getting so darned good that I haven’t really needed Elements for anything yet.
PSE 6 still [...]

Jade: No Hassle, Digital Image Correction for Leopard

Written on November 06, 2008 by Charles Moore and 7 people have commented

Jade, a different sort of digital image processing utility, doesn’t do anything you can’t achieve using tools and filters in Photoshop, Pixelmator, or other image editors, but it can transform your less-than-perfect shots (dark, dim, feeble, pale, badly lit, vague, gloomy) into images you can be proud of with minimal effort.
Jade leverages advanced graphics algorithms [...]

Mac “Cocoa” Native Image Editors Updated

Written on May 14, 2008 by Jason Terhorst and 2 people have commented

The two newest kids on the block, Pixelmator and Acorn, have both been updated to version 1.2, each carrying increased stability and new features. Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop blog has a post covering some new features – including Curves, Rulers, and more – clearly planned to keep pushing at the market currently dominated by Adobe [...]