Well! I mentioned the other day that Pixelmator is my favorite photo editor, and when 2.0 comes out, it will be awesome. And now it has, and it’s, well, maybe awesome is too much, but it’s pretty nifty. Maybe someday I’ll have time to post a review.
Here are some of my favorite tools for working with digital images.
Pixelmator. This is my go-to program for digital images, and someday they’ll ship 2.0 and it will be awesome.
Xee calls itself “a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser.” I agree. The best feature, for my money, is that it lets you losslessly rotate and crop JPEG images. You can do that with jpegtran too, but that’s a command-line tool. Those are great for batch jobs, but image cropping is almost always better done using an interactive GUI front-end.
Acorn is my second-favorite image editor. If Pixelmator wasn’t so darned good, this would be my favorite. Usually what brings me to Acorn is when I need to do something with filters and I can’t figure out how to do it in Pixelmator. The tech support is great, too.
Speaking of filters, I like to goof around with FX Photo Studio, too. MacPhun, the maker, also makes a cute one-trick-pony called Color Splash Studio which is worth the $2 I paid for it.
I also use a ton of different command line tools. I’ll write about those someday Real Soon Now.