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iMaginator from Stone Design is the low cost image processing power house for Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger. With over 118 filters and effects at your fingertips, you can instantly combine text, images, paint, filters and effects to turn photos into art and QuickTime movies. Just $49 & free upgrades for life!
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This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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I'm touching myself. - Version: 3.6, 11/28/2007 01:29PM PST
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Ancient_Boii_Tribe
For those of us who were artist in real life and are still trying to get the hang of photoshop after a decade of using it, this app here is really kind of cool. I like some of the effects that I'm sure photoshop has but where at I don't know. And I'm still trying to figure out this layer thing. I guess those are just PS's different effects that you can click on and off.
I'm from the old school when art was done by starting out with a sketch on paper with a pencil.
Now I guess anyone can call themselves artists.
This is a very cool application and you're selling yourself short by calling it a poor man's photoshop because it's a unique application unto itself.
I'm from the old school when art was done by starting out with a sketch on paper with a pencil.
Now I guess anyone can call themselves artists.
This is a very cool application and you're selling yourself short by calling it a poor man's photoshop because it's a unique application unto itself.
Think of what's to come 
- Version: 2.4, 6/9/2006 05:24AM PST
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greglawhorn
The biggest drawback to iMaginator is the lack of layers - I can't seem to blur text on top of an unblurred image. It's not at all a bad program.
It's real value to me was to illustrate what Photoshop will be like once it is released as an Intel native program. Working with a 30 meg tiff file on my MacBook Pro, iMaginator never once gave me a "working" bar; it rarely even paused to think. I don't think that it's the program for me, but it's close.
It's real value to me was to illustrate what Photoshop will be like once it is released as an Intel native program. Working with a 30 meg tiff file on my MacBook Pro, iMaginator never once gave me a "working" bar; it rarely even paused to think. I don't think that it's the program for me, but it's close.
There are more than 100 effects -- all of those of Core Image, plus some plug-ins added by the developer. The effects are easy to find, easy to use and easy to edit. If you have an older machine there is an option to not update an effect until you release the mouse button. Otherwise, the effects are done in realtime. I am using Imaginator on a 800 MHz G4 iBook with 640 MB of RAM and its works great on images destined for the web. On a 1.6 GHz MacBook Air, Imaginator is very fast. It is likely a screamer or an iMac or Mac Pro, but I don't know that.
Layers are easy to add with four commands:
Effects can be applied to each layer. You can, for example, place blurred text on top of a crisp image. Or put the text behind a translucent image to shine through. This is all done by applying effects to the layers individually.
The documentation is concise, and, where needed, visual. For example, the documentation about various color blends includes visual examples to give you a good idea of what each blend does.
About support: On a Sunday evening, I contacted the developer because Imaginator would not open Pentax RAW images---although it did fine with "generic" raw---and he fixed the issue by Monday morning. BTW, because of their size, RAW images are pretty sluggish on my older iBook, but that is not really an Imaginator issue.
For $49 and life-time free upgrades, I cannot image a better deal.