Seashore is an easy-to-use open source image editor for Cocoa

Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes.

Seashore is a tool that supports multiple layers and individual channel editing. Seashore is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format. Seashore is still undergoing development.

Here are some key features of "Seashore":

￭ Full support for the GIMP's native XCF file format
￭ Read and write support for the TIFF, PNG, JPEG and JP2000 file formats
￭ Read-only support for the BMP, PICT, PDF, XBM and GIF file formats
￭ Layers with over 20 merging effects
￭ Individual primary and alpha channel editing
￭ Thorough transparency effects including semi-transparent gradients
￭ Arbitrary selection regions
￭ Anti-aliased brush strokes
￭ 6 basic gradient effects with 16 variations
￭ Tablet support
￭ ColorSync support (including embedded profiles in TIFFs and CMYK previewing)
￭ Plug-in filters


Most features work on Mac OS 10.3 and later, with the exception of JP2000 support for which Mac OS 10.4 is required.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Makes Seashore a universal binary
· Fixes a bug that caused the program to produce dull colours for some TIFF files and when flattening an image
· Fixes a bug that caused floating layers to appear incorrectly when working with channels
· Fixes a bug when rotating images on Mac OS 10.3
· Fixes a bug that made large TIFF files unreadable on Mac OS 10.3
· Adds write support for GIFs
· Adds Hue, Saturation and Value plug-in
· Adds CMYK plug-in
· Adds the clone tool
· Adds the ability to check for updates
· Adds aspect ratio setting to selection tools
· Adds ellipse tool
· Adds polygon lasso tool
· Adds anti-aliasing to lasso tool
· Adds non-modal new document panel
· Adds selection operations
· Adds the ability to create new documents with a transparent background
· Scales the new document window to the content size (plus border)
· Removes crop tool (now part of rectangular selection tool)
· Improves plug-in capabilities
· Retains EXIF data for JPEGs (Mac OS 10.4 only)