Seashore (software)

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Seashore
A screenshot of Seashore running under Mac OS X
Stable release:	Seashore 0.1.8 _[+/-]
Preview release:	Seashore 0.1.9 RC4 _[+/-]
OS:	Mac OS X
Use:	Bitmap graphics editor
License:	GPL
Website:	http://seashore.sourceforge.net/

Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API.^[1]^[2] It is released under the GNU General Public License.^[3] Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF and GIF.^[4] Seashore offers a smaller number of features in comparison with GIMP, including layers and alpha channel support, gradients and transparency effects, anti-aliased brushes, tablet support and plug-in filters.^[4]

Seashore is currently at version 0.1.8 and is considered to be in Beta stages.^[3] It lacks many of the features that GIMP has, but Seashore's purpose is to become an easy-to-use Free Software graphics editor that runs natively on Mac OS X. Currently there is a working version of GIMP for Mac OS X, Gimp.app. Gimp.app has many features that Seashore does not have, but it requires a version of X11 to run.^[5] Seashore is written using the native Mac toolkit, Cocoa.

1 Features
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Features

Seashore has a number of the more basic features found in graphics editing software, although it is still in development. Among the notable features are:^[4]