Iris: One window image editing for Leopard

After a public beta that started at Macworld Expo 2008, Nolobe today shipped Iris, a new image editing application for Mac OS X. Nolobe is the same company that brings the world Interarchy, a popular advanced FTP client.

What separates Iris from the competition is the single-screen user interface that dispenses with a lot of the traditional floating palettes that clutter screens with other applications. While it's a 1.0 release, a quick tour of the trial download shows that Iris is a surprisingly full-featured image editor supporting most major file formats, advanced compositing tools, and color correction machinery that lets you fix or enhance your favorite photos.

Iris requires Leopard, and can be purchased from Nolobe for $79. If you'd like to take Iris for a spin, download the free trial.

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Source: http://nolobe.com/iris/

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After a public beta that started at Macworld Expo 2008, Nolobe today shipped Iris, a new image editing application for Mac OS X. Nolobe is...

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Spinfusor

In Photoshop there is a one-window screen mode...
(press F)

June 18 2008 at 1:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Angel

Now, I hope Pixelmator turns into a 1-window app!!

June 18 2008 at 12:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

riouxr

Hummm... powerful layer compositing... can't event change anything on the layers! No masks. Doesn't support Wacom tablet... large brushes have serious banding issues with soft edges... Refresh problems when you change the order of the layers, checker for transparency doesn't refresh properly when you zoom in... Shall I continue? Too bad because it looks very nice and I would love to use it but right now it's more of a beta then a final product.

June 17 2008 at 4:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Pepe

Thank you for the informed comment.

June 17 2008 at 6:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Ochs

The overall look may be slick, but the functionality is sorely lacking. MDI is a wretched paradigm and extremely un-Mac-like, and will keep me away from this for sure. Meanwhile, this has no features I can see that Pixelmator doesn't, and it's exceptionally feature-poor compared to Adobe Photoshop Elements. Like all of these pretenders to the throne, I can't even constrain a selection to a size or aspect ratio.

June 17 2008 at 4:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Donald

So what is so special about this? It looks just like photoshop elements 6 which forces you to use a fullscreen (apart from the dock) window.

June 17 2008 at 4:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JimD

My review here. In short, stick with Acorn or Pixelmator. This thing is a dog.

June 17 2008 at 3:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Max

Another anemic image editor. $79 for this? You're joking. I'd rather use Pixelmator or GIMP.

June 17 2008 at 3:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rick

Doesn't seem nearly as comprehensive (at least from the limited specs on their website) as Pixelmator and Pixelmator costs $20 less.