LiveQuartz - 1.8.4

The readme says it might not work on a MacBook. It doesn't. Too bad.

While PhotoShop still rules everything and anything in the photo editing world, LiveQuartz is great for people who either can afford to pay for PhotoShop's high prices or just want to do some simple quick photo editing without having to dish out a lot of money for program functions they will probably never use. While LiveQuartz isn't as simple to use as PhotoShop and lacks functions, it still can preform many useful and simple tasks. For example, I use it crop photos with ease. Adding text or color is a breeze too. If you want to just play around with photos and not have to pay a lot to do it, get LiveQuartz.

it's no photoshop replacement, not even photodelux replacement, but its okay for a basic program. it even imported a psd image file i had.

it still needs some work, a shapoed/sized pointer would be nice instead of just a crosshare pointer.

Whether it has Chinese localization or not, what good is it, if it has so many bugs? I take the rubber to delete parts of an image, one click, it deletes it all. I take the brush to paint on an image, one click, it creates a new layer, background all black and I paint on that, but the image is gone. If I paint on that layer again, it first makes it all black (so I can only paint everything in one stroke or nothing at all).

The core image effects are great, but that's because Apple is great, the author of this software is just using what the system is offering. However, whenever the author is doing a simple paint operation, it's all broken. And I should donate for it? I always donate for good software, this one is not.

It's a good example for the power of the Quartz engine. Very nice app. Very fast and easy to use.