Screen Shot of Seashore Graphics Editor
There's actually quite a lot of free software out there, far more than I could possibly cover. So I'm just going to talk about a few applications that I know personally. I figure with any luck at all, a lot of suggestions will appear in the comments.
First up, a recent discovery for me; Seashore is a simple, easy to use and surprisingly full-featured image editor. It supports layers, channels, tools, including textures and brushes, and is perfect if you mostly want to do Save As from .png or .jpg or .tiff, including transparent .gif, and image scaling, by percentage or pixel. There's easy to use documentation embedded in the Help system. Read more
Me: Long term passionate user of Apple technology; I bleed in five colors. Seeking that special CPU for remote log-in, GREP and public file-sharing. I heart my iPhone and iPods, and all my Macs; ours will not be an exclusive relationship. I heart Mac OS X, but I'm into Unix, multiple flavors. I think using Terminal is a religious rite. Turn ons: drag n' drop, BBEdit, and track pad gestures. Turn offs: Kernel panics, Vista, and signal drop offs. Intensely loyal, and passionate; my first generation iPod is still fully functional, and I love AutoFill mode. I'm no Vista groupie, but I'm not an iMac type either. I know what I want, and I've had the best. I crave high bandwidth and fast throughput.
priced in three "tiers," the newly released and very popular tracks are $1.29, a very large number (in fact, most tracks)are still $0.99, and some are priced at $0.69. All ten million plus tracks are now DRM free, and are iTunes Plus, which means that you can copy them, burn them as many times as you wish to CD, and play them on an unlimited number of players, though you may have to convert tracks if your player doesn't support AAC, the encoding standard Apple uses. The good news, aside from the absence of Digital Rights Management restrictions, is that all the tracks are encoded at the better sounding 256 kbps, which of course also means the files are a bit larger in size.
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