Seashore 0.1.9

Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes.
Seashore is a tool that supports multiple layers and individual channel editing. Seashore is based around the GIMPs technology and uses the same native file format. Seashore is still undergoing development.
Main features:
- Full support for the GIMPs native XCF file format
- Read and write support for the TIFF, PNG, JPEG and JP2000 file formats
- Read-only support for the BMP, PICT, PDF, XBM and GIF file formats
- Layers with over 20 merging effects
- Individual primary and alpha channel editing
- Thorough transparency effects including semi-transparent gradients
- Arbitrary selection regions
- Anti-aliased brush strokes
- 6 basic gradient effects with 16 variations
- Tablet support
- ColorSync support (including embedded profiles in TIFFs and CMYK previewing)
- Plug-in filters
Most features work on Mac OS 10.3 and later, with the exception of JP2000 support for which Mac OS 10.4 is required.
Enhancements:
- Makes Seashore a universal binary
- Fixes a bug that caused the program to produce dull colours for some TIFF files and when flattening an image
- Fixes a bug that caused floating layers to appear incorrectly when working with channels
- Fixes a bug when rotating images on Mac OS 10.3
- Fixes a bug that made large TIFF files unreadable on Mac OS 10.3
- Adds write support for GIFs
- Adds Hue, Saturation and Value plug-in
- Adds CMYK plug-in
- Adds the clone tool
- Adds the ability to check for updates
- Adds aspect ratio setting to selection tools
- Adds ellipse tool
- Adds polygon lasso tool
- Adds anti-aliasing to lasso tool
- Adds non-modal new document panel
- Adds selection operations
- Adds the ability to create new documents with a transparent background
- Scales the new document window to the content size (plus border)
- Removes crop tool (now part of rectangular selection tool)
- Improves plug-in capabilities
- Retains EXIF data for JPEGs (Mac OS 10.4+ only)