Seashore (software)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Seashore is a free and open-source image editor for macOS, similar to Photoshop/GIMP, with a simpler Cocoa user interface.[1][2] 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, JPEG, JPEG2000, and HEIC and read-only support for BMP, PDF, SVG and GIF. Seashore offers fewer features than Photoshop/GIMP, but is intended to be easy-to-use and to run natively on macOS. It includes layers, alpha channel support, gradients and transparency effects, anti-aliased brushes, tablet support and plug-in filters.
After several years without maintenance, development was restarted by Robert Engels in 2017 to allow it to run on newer versions of macOS.[2] Seashore version 3.16 was released in December 2022 and is considered stable.[3]
The latest release is distributed via the Apple Mac App Store.[4][2]
Features
Seashore has many of the basic features found in graphics editing software, including:
- Full support for the XCF file format
- Reading and writing TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000 and HEIC file formats
- Reading BMP, PDF, SVG, PICT, and XBM file formats
- Layers and layer merging effects
- Text layers
- Individual editing of layer channels
- Transparency effects and transparency in gradients
- Arbitrary selection regions (i.e. through a lasso tool)
- Anti-aliased paint brushes
- User defined brushes and textures
- 6 gradient effects
- Graphics tablet support
- Plug-in filter effects
- Core Image Filters
- Color levels and histograms
See also
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References
External links
- Download Seashore on the Mac App Store
- Seashore on GitHub
- Original SourceForge site: Template:Sourceforge
- How to use Seashore videos