Free ( 29 ) Mac Photo Editor Software
It is really hard to find free Mac photo editor software these days. The only reason behind this is that there are many such free Mac photo editor software which do more or less same job. As per our eagerness, we intended to find the best free Mac photo editor software along with other handy ones.
During our search we found many free software which are capable to create and edit images. Some had only few features in it and some of them have restricted features. But there are few of them which are best and quite handy with some cool features. So here are they:
GIMP for Mac OS X
GIMP is an open source image editor. It is also known as “free Photoshop” at times. GIMP comes quite handy for Mac OS X as it has many similar features as are in Photoshop.
Seashore
Seashore is based around GIMP’s technology. It uses the same file format as used in GIMP. According to the developer few of its features are like layers with over 20 merging effects, anti-aliased brush strokes, 6 basic gradient effects with 16 variations, etc.
It also possesses the ability to edit the primary or alpha channels.
Pixen
Pixen is once again a free graphics editor for Mac. It’s the most suitable software for animation and pixel based editing as far as free Mac photo editing software are concerned.
Few of the features which are included in Pixen are layers capability, title view, animation features, etc.
Chocoflop
Chocoflop was the next best available option for Mac, but the project has been called off from any further development. So it is still best option for those people who are using Leopard not snow leopard. As far as its features are concerned, chocoflop is good for editing images while keeping them non-destructive, rich text, core image filters, raw support, etc.
So these are four best free Mac photo editor software available out there. There are other software too which are freeware. We have arranged a list of them for you all along with the links.
List of Other Freeware Mac photo editor software:
Picasa:
The easy way to find, edit, and share your photos, manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had, eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more, turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more, upload seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world.
AlexWarp:
AlexWarp is an image-warping program. You can use it to do cool things to people’s faces.
CinePaint:
CinePaint is an open source painting program used by motion picture studios to retouch images in 35mm films. It was formerly called Film Gimp.
It has been used in a dozen feature films including Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, and the Fast & the Furious.
CocoaSlideShow:
CocoaSlideShow is the perfect companion for iPhone GPS tagged photos.
License is freeware and the features which it includes are— full screen mode, handles Apple Remote, rotate pictures, drag and drop files and folders (recursive), add / remove / export / trash pictures, no Bezel, Ken Burns effect or Minuet in G and it is really fast.
Colorate:
Colorate is a utility for creation of harmonized color palettes and color schemes, aimed from hobbyist to professional designers.
Colorate fully automatizes the palette generation from a particular color swatch, selected from the standard Color Panel, dragged from other application or obtained from an image through the integrated Image Analyze feature.
Flip Through Images:
Flip Through Images is a Macintosh application for quickly displaying multiple image files.
Free Ruler:
Handy software with loads of features. Some of them are-
• A horizontal and vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously.
• Measurement in pixels, inches, picas, or centimeters.
• Automatic alignment of rulers.
• The ability to group rulers and move them around as a unit.
• Shadowless rulers with customizable transparency.
• Interactive tick marks which follow the mouse location for more precise measurement.
• Independent resizing of rulers, from 200 pixels to 5000 pixels in length.
• Single key shortcuts for most ruler functions.
• Conversion assistant to set ruler resolution based on screen size and resolution.
• Unit converter utility for converting numbers between different units of measure.
Geotagger:
Geotagger is a droplet for inserting GPS coordinates into your photos. Simply position Google Earth (version 4+ only) over the location you wish to insert into your images then drag your images (jpegs only) onto the Geotagger icon.
Once the images are tagged the information stays with them so you can import them to iPhoto, upload them to Flickr or Panoramio or any number of other things.
GPSPhotoLinker:
GPSPhotoLinker adds GPS position and location data to your photos. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit are linked and saved to your photos. GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state and country into the metadata.
Goldberg:
Goldberg is a freeware image and movie viewer with image editing capabilities and support for applying QuickTime and other effects.
ImageMagick:
It is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
You can use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
Image Tricks:
Image Tricks is a freeware application for editing your photos and images using Mac OS X Core Image filters and Quartz Compositions that unimaginably transform your photos.
This program also contains a powerful random image generator for creating unique backgrounds and abstract images for business cards, web design, print materials and more.
iMagine Photo:
iMagine Photo is the tool for the automated processing of digital photographs using AppleScript. iMagine Photo will run only on Mac OS X 10.3.3 and higher.
Inkscape:
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping.
Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
iPhoto Buddy:
iPhoto Buddy is a Mac OS X application that allows you to easily create, manage, and switch between multiple iPhoto Libraries. The advantages of splitting your One Huge Photo Library into multiple, smaller ones include improved iPhoto performance, increased flexibility in organizing your digital photo collection, and a consistency with most other Mac applications that allow their respective data to be stored in as many documents (in this case, “Libraries”) as you like.iPhoto Buddy uses a simple, streamlined interface that was inspired by iPhoto itself. Anyone that has used iPhoto will immediately feel right at home using iPhoto Buddy. It truly is a companion application–a real buddy!
iResize:
Batch resize and compress images, known types are: .jpeg, .pict, .tiff,.gif, .psd and QuickTime images.
Jade:
Multiple threaded executions and a proprietary virtual memory scheme form the foundation for Jade 1.2, one of the most versatile JPEG viewers available for the Macintosh. By utilizing these unique features, Jade can view JPEGs with amazing speed while maintaining a small memory footprint.
JetPhoto:
JetPhoto is a full-featured freeware to store, organize, view and share digital photos, as well as publish photo albums onto the Web. JetPhoto contains the Mac software – JetPhoto Studio, and PHP-based Web service software – JetPhoto Server. It’s easy to use JetPhoto Studio to create, organize and review photo albums on a user’s Macintosh computer. Once the photo album is prepared, only One-Click is needed to synchronize a local album with an online photo album based on JetPhoto Server.
JPEGView:
A fast, powerful image viewer for both 680×0 and PowerPC Macintoshes. JPEGView can open and display images in JPEG, PICT, GIF, TIFF, BMP, MacPaint, or Startup Screen formats.
JustLooking:
JustLooking is designed to be a replacment for the “Preview” application on your computer for browsing images. In particular, it has the following differences:
- It focuses on files and directories instead of lists of files. Thus, once you load a file, you can easily navigate through all other files in the same directory.- It displays images at their native resolution instead of interpreting DPI information stored in the image meta-data. While images are printed at the maximum resolution possible, on screen they are displayed pixel-by-pixel.- Being designed more for viewing of Images, it properly shows animated GIF files.- The entire program can easily be manipulated and powered by simple keystrokes for a quick and pleasant viewing experience.- JustLooking also supports such basic features as printing and rotating and will hopefully prove to be sufficiently functional for most users’ needs.
Mike’s Edge:
Mike’s edge supplies a single task with a powerful and professional, yet easy to use approach. It makes image masks, and it does it well. Whether you prefer the term mask, transparency, or matte, what Mike’s Edge does is it allows you to decide which pixels of an image will show, and which will not. These masked images ultimately have a destination, and be it the web, video, or print, Mike’s Edge will deliver.
PhotoGPSEditor:
PhotoGPSEditor is an easy to use meta-data editor for photo files, plus it can match data from GPS (gpx or NMEA) files. With PhotoGPSEditor you can add location and summary details to a photo file. Location information consists of latitude and longitude data, as well as town, area/region, and country. This can be added automatically by matching up photos with GPS (gpx or NMEA) file track data, manually (just type it in) or ‘automatically’ by placing a pointer on a map to get the latitude and longitude data. The program can then add town, area/region, and country information. This process can also be described as ‘geocoding’ a picture/photo.PhotoInfoEditor:
PhotoInfoEditor is an easy to use meta-data editor for photo files. With PhotoInfoEditor you can add location and summary details to a JPEG, RAW or Tiff photo files. Location information consists of latitude and longitude data, as well as town, area/region, and country.
This can be added manually (just type it in) or ‘automatically’ by placing a pointer on a map to get the latitude and longitude data, and then allowing the program to add town, area/region, and country information. This process can also be described as ‘geocoding’ a picture/photo.
PhotoStickies:
PhotoStickies displays one or more photos (located on your local drives or in the Internet) on your screen, shows webcam pictures, acts as a fast image viewer, and records and replays slideshows. Also, PhotoStickies can be used as a wallpaper utility.PresentArms:
PresentArms is a slideshow program. It allows the user to create a show using a large variety of image types, and a playlist of songs to play while the slideshow is in progress.
Slideshows can be played in both windowed and full screen mode, and can be looped if the user so desires. Finally, PresentArms allows the user to quickly see the projected length of the slideshow, along with the length of the playlist he or she has created.
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