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LiveQuartzHave you been looking for a free image editor with little to no luck? Look no further than LiveQuartz. It is a frontend on the various CoreImage functions that are available in Tiger, and that does mean 10.4 is required. The price is right, free that is, and the application itself has lots of features.

My one gripe with LiveQuartz? Metal, why does it use the Metal skin? The sooner Metal is gone from the OS the happier I will be. Otherwise this is a great little app that is already an universal binary (meaning it will run on PowerPC and Intel based Macs).
 

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Have you been looking for a free image editor with little to no luck? Look no further than LiveQuartz. It is a frontend on the various...
 

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Gregory Wostrel

Interesting app. I tried Imaginator from Stone.com when is came out (way before LiveQuartz). They seem about the same except that I think LiveQuartz is better organized (and free!). My beef about these apps is that the demos and samples are all useless looking "playing around". I would love to see someone doing some nice work with them: slick composites, nice effect combos, image corrections. Rather it seems to be mostly cheesy stuff. It may be due to the lack of really good selection tools or something along those lines. CoreImage is cool and I am waiting to see some apps that harness the technology and give Photoshop some competition.

August 29 2005 at 5:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Scott, thanks for finding this great application. I added it to http://www.freemacware.com/ with credit to you. I have been wanting to play with Core images since I got tiger.

August 29 2005 at 10:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nathan Nutter

I think you should point out how it differs from Image Tricks if it does.

August 29 2005 at 9:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott McNulty

Thanks, I fixed it! Though perhaps it should be called 'phat binaries.'

August 29 2005 at 8:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anon

I hate to be picky, but I think it is a 'universal binary' ('fat binaries' being binaries that have PowerPC and pre-PowerPC code).

August 29 2005 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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