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Even as an alpha image editor, I think it's safe to dub ChocoFlop a true "poor man's Photoshop." It offers layers, real-time preview of filters and effects (of which there are many), a slew of selection tools, blending modes, masks, color adjusting and a whole bunch of file formats it can save to and even more it can read from - including many versions of RAW. For the full details, check out the longest image editor feature list I've seen in a long time.

As an alpha it's free, and the author has stated on his blog that, once it goes official and commercial, ChocoFlop won't cost more than $50 USD. I haven't cracked this open yet myself, but if you've been looking for a powerful image editor that offers quite a bit more than the standard CoreImage-based options out there, ChocoFlop should be right up your alley.

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entica

GROWL is *manditory* in order to use this? F-that. Deal breaker for me. Anytime an app requires a 3rd party piece of software and cannot be self-contained, I worry. Not to mention I hate Growl.

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May 04 2006 at 9:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeedee

Indeed, I tried it on 10.4.6 and it froze all the time but of what I could try, it is amazingly good and very fast. Keep up the good work, we need an alternative to photoshop for basic operations :)

May 04 2006 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jacques Lema

Hm, well I wrote that app. The reason why it wasn't posted anywhere (macupdate whatever) was because it is still pretty unstable. Especially since 10.4.6 (locks up when drawing all the time). A customer of mine recently asked me about a free OSX app just to do basic image modifications (resizing, cropping) and I recommended Seashore, no kidding.

Anyway it seems my database at Dreamhost just died right now, that should keep curious people out :-)

May 04 2006 at 12:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian Harris

PS, being able to read RAW files is a major brownie point earner!

May 04 2006 at 10:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian Harris

I played around with Seashore once upon a time. It was neat, but really didn't seem to offer much in the feature department.

So far my thinking is Chocoflop (yes, still alpha) has a great feature set and tremendous potential!

May 04 2006 at 10:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Digital Dog

Anyone have a chance to compare this to the Gimp-based Seashore? It's freeware and has a native aqua interface.

May 04 2006 at 10:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas

That looks awesome! Does it do vector?

May 04 2006 at 9:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply