Thursday, November 8, 2007

Mac OS X Image Editors

Man. What's up with Mac software developers? There is a plethora of new image editors coming out for OS X. The tall and the small. Some proclaiming themselves "Photoshop killers" others more humble limited tools. Some have been released. Many are in public beta right. Others in private beta. Some feel like good old fashioned vaporware. A few are OS X 10.5 Leapord only. Most are very inexpensive.
I suspect some of this is due to the fact that much of the underlying technology for image editing is now built into Apple's developer tools, apparently making some of this rather plug and play. Others look totally new and unique. So in the last few months we've seen releases or announcements for the following;

Pixelmator - proclaimed Photoshop killer
Iris - implied Photoshop killer
Acorn - simple painting program
Naked light - implied Photoshop killer
Skitch - simple screenshot and painting tool.

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