Seashore Image Editor for Mac – Better than The Gimp
I can’t remember where I first came across Seashore, but its been sitting in my applications folder and dock for a couple of months and on the odd occasion when I need to do do some image editing I’ve come to rely on it without really feeling the pain of a learning curve. So here’s my software review:
For Mac OS X, this editing image software feel light, but each time you click on a tool (top bar) under the top bar you got many options for the chosen tool, it's well organized, Seashore use layers and the file are compatible with GIMP. I’ve been using Seashore since about 2005. Its one of the first things I install on a new Mac. It is the tool that I use to resize, rotate, and adjust the quality/compression of my photos and images from the Internet. Seashore starts up and runs fast, is completely free, and works quite well.
- Seashore is another simple free photo editing software for MAC. Using this photo editor you can choose the option to edit existing pictures and also create new images. Here you can choose to rotate, flip, crop, and perform several other editing using this software. Add layers and edit images on MAC with this software.
- Image Editing tutorial 1: Introduction to using layers Using the free image editing software for MAC - Seashore.
Seashore is a native OS X application which does image editing on a Mac. Free and Open Source, it’s much smaller and lighter than Photoshop and easier to use than The Gimp, and being an installed application is much more responsive than an online image editor such as Picnic. So Seashore fits in nicely for anything a bit more than than basic iPhoto tweaking, and a bit less than full blown Photoshop pro tools.
Seashore loads very quickly indeed on my underpowered Mac mini, and immediately presents a simple and recognisable tools palette.
So you can get up and running doing simple stuff with images really quickly, but when it comes to more advanced operations, and inevitably the need arises sooner rather than later, then the shortcomings of Seashore in its present state become apparent.
Update: May 2009
Seashore Image Editor for Mac Tutorials
I’ve spent a bit more time getting to grips with the concepts behind the seashore image editor for mac and recorded a series of five screencast tutorials on the subject. They start off fairly basic and should serve as a good introduction to the fundamental ideas and techniques, maybe applicable to any picture editing software, not just seashore for mac. The only thing is I haven’t decided exactly where to publish them yet, maybe here or perhaps better on the ICT tutor blog
Preview User Guide
You can extract part of an image. For example, you can extract one person’s face from a group photo and then paste the face elsewhere.
If an image’s background consists of areas that are mainly the same color, you can also remove the background.
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Extract an image
- In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), click the Selection Tools menu , then choose the Smart Lasso tool .
- Trace the edge of the image you want to extract.Make sure the image’s edge is within the thick border that appears as you trace.
- Connect the end of the border back to its beginning, or stop dragging to connect the border in a straight line back to the beginning.
- Do one of the following:
- To copy the image so that you can paste it in a document: Choose Edit > Copy.
- To remove everything outside of your selection: Click Crop or choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.
Extract a PDF page as an image
You can select part of an image opened in Preview, then copy and paste it elsewhere or crop the content surrounding it. If the image is in a PDF, you need to extract the PDF page as an image before you can use the image markup tools.
- In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF file, choose View > Thumbnails, then select the page in the thumbnail sidebar.
- Click File > Export, type a name, add a tag (optional), then choose where you want to save it.
- Click the Format pop-up menu and choose an image format (such as PNG).
- Click Save.
Remove the background from an image
- In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), then click the Instant Alpha button (or use the Touch Bar).
- Drag over part of the background.Preview selects the area you dragged over and any pixels adjacent to it that have the same colors.
- To delete the selected area, press Delete.To delete everything outside the selected area, choose Edit > Invert Selection, then press Delete.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have the image you want.
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