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Ping

If you deal with PNG files, you need this app.

PNG is a great format. It's lossless, patent-free, open, and supported by all sorts of stuff. It's great for screenshots, line drawings, and anything that needs to look good. Unfortunately, many programs which save to PNG format do a horrible job of it. Adobe Photoshop is one of the worst offenders, creating PNG files many times the size they should be. So we created Ping. To use it, simply drop a PNG file on it. Ping will then optimize the file, often reducing its size to a mere fraction of the original.

Ping works by optimizing a variety of aspects of the PNG format (palette, compression parameters, IDAT chunks, etc.) but it does not remove any image information from the file. Since PNG is a lossless format, it certainly wouldn't make sense to throw away information.Unlike similar utilities, Ping is a Universal Binary. Not only that, but we've optimized OptiPNG (the technology that powers Ping) for the latest Intel chips -- taking advantage of all the cool (at least to us geeks) features that are at the heart of Apple's latest and greatest computers.

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LiveQuartz



LiveQuartz is a powerful free image editor. It is based on layers and CoreImage filters.
You have the layers on the left and the filters on the right of the window. (An alternate user interface with settings in a drawer is also available via preferences)
To edit an image, just drag it into the window (or layers' list at the desired position) and it will be added as a new layer.
LiveQuartz is localized in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Danish and Persian. It is Universal Binary since its first releases.

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Exif Untrasher

Have you ever deleted images from your digital camera's memory card and needed them afterwards? Exif Untrasher can recover them.

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InstantGallery

InstantGallery lets you quickly and easily build web galleries and see the results instantly. The output is nice clean XHTML and CSS. A number of cool, professionally designed themes are included.

You can easily add watermarks to your images, add drop shadows and other effects to thumbnails, and even include live searching with no need for server side scripting.

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Adobe Photoshop


Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard software for professional image editing and processing and graphics creation.
Bitmap, text and vector capabilities, a wide choice of tools, a large library of effects and filters make this an extremely powerful layer-based image editor.

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iView MediaPro


iView MediaPro makes it easy to import, organize, and catalog photographs. Although this is a pro version of iView Media, it still manages to remain rather useable, even on older systems.

hugin



If you take a few different photos of a landscape and you want to stitch them together to make a panorama, hugin is the way to do it. Just line up the photos and save them as one. It’s pretty straight-forward and has good results.

The new panorama features in Photoshop CS3 work really well. I used it recently on some photos I took of the Golden Gate Bridge. But, Photoshop is expensive and not everyone can afford a copy. hugin can be a nice replacement.

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Pipette

If you have ever worked with color in photo or graphics, you know how important it is to find just the right shade when matchin colors. Pipetter makes that easy. Once started, you can drag your cursor to any color anywhere on the screen and Pipette will let you copy the hex format for that color.

It works well and does it fast.

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PhotoInfoEditor

With PhotoInfoEditor you can add location and summary details to a JPEG, RAW or Tiff photo files. Location information consists of latitude and longitude data, as well as town, area/region, and country. This can be added manually (just type it in) or ‘automatically’ by placing a pointer on a map to get the latitude and longitude data, and then allowing the program to add town, area/region, and country information. This process can also be described as ‘geocoding’ a picture/photo.

PhotoInfoEditor also allows meta-data to be edited in single or multiple photo files at once.

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PhotoInfo
PhotoInfo is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to display and print EXIF information from JPEG, TIFF, and RAW digital camera files. File names can be changed and Date-Time tags can be edited. A batch change mode for renaming files and changing Date-Time tags is also provided.

Looking at EXIF information is a really good way to learn about photography. When you see a picture you like, just drop it on this application’s icon and take a look at the methods that were taken to capture it.

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iPhoto Batch Enhancer



iPhoto Batch Enhancer is a tool to make using iPhoto a little bit simpler. It helps to apply the built in effects (enhance, black-white and sepia plus even more in iPhoto 6) as well as the adjust-palette with a few mouse clicks to your selection of photos.

This last weekend I shot my sister’s wedding and this program sure saved me a lot of time.

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FlickrGet

FlickrGet is a small application built to make the process of getting images from a user’s Flickr Set easy. It’s about as easy at it gets really. Just copy the URL of the Flickr set into the app and it will grab them all for you and put it in a folder. This can save you from a lot of clicking and dragging.

We have posted about a ton of great Flickr freeware apps. This one gets added to the list.

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Sniper

Mugshot is an iPhoto-like desktop application for managing your Flickr photos. Looking for a replacement for Flickr’s web interface? Want to drag, drop, and copy instead of clicking on links? Mugshot is the way to do it.

This weekend I uploaded 62 large photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. I used Mugshot to show them off to some family that was visiting. I love that you can see so many images at the same time, instead of clicking to another page after every 10 photos.

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Corripio

There are a few options out there to add artwork to your iTunes library but Corripio is the best I’ve seen. It is incredibly easy to use because it integrates so nicely with iTunes and only take a few clicks. But the best part is that it takes the actual artwork from the iTunes Music Store. This means that the artwork will be high quality.

I’ve been using Corripio to add artwork to my collection of music. I use this script to make a playlist of all songs without artwork and then find them in Corripio and let it do it’s job.

One thing to remember, you’ll want to be sure that your music is well tagged so it gets the right image. If you have a lot of untagged music you’lll want to use a program like iEatBrainz to quickly tag it.

Thanks to the developers of this great program. It was very well done.

Update:The developer wrote me to tell me that there is a “Artwork” column. If you sort the songs by that column then all the “0’s” will be at the top and that will be all the songs with no artwork. This program continues to amaze me.

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SmallImage2

SmallImage is a simple and efficient tool to batch process JPEG files, resize them, recompress them, remove embedded profiles and make them ready for the web or store them efficiently.

SmallImage also lets you retreive informations about your JPEG files, like the compression factor, the size of each metadata, the EXIF informations, and so on.

This is a great tool for those who work with a lot of images. We’re happy to add it to our great number of freeware for Mac photographers.

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Phoenix Slides

Don’t let the old school icon fool you. Phoenix Slides is a very capable and VERY fast image browser. If you have a folder of images to go thru, just drop them on the application and they load up in a flash. There are also other options like full screen slideshows, rotate/zoom, view EXIF data and plenty more.

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