Free image capture software for mac

Capture Me is a screen capture utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window and resize ability.
Capture Me is very easy to use - just drag and resize the floating window to cover the area you want to capture. Then click in the window to capture the screenshot. You can resize it, copy it to the clipboard, and save it in a variety of formats and locations. Its behavior is customizable with respect to what happens after a capture.
What advantage does Capture Me hold over the built in OS X screencapture facility? For some tasks, the answer is simple - there is none - the built in capture is elegant and easy to use.
However, there are occasions when its nice to be able to choose what file format your capture saves in, copy it to the clipboard without holding down four keys at once, or resize it on the fly.
Its also common to want to take successive shots of the exact same position on the screen without moving the capture region at all, or make all your captures the same size.
These tasks are trivial with Capture Me, but difficult at best with the built in utilities. Another possible use is as a floating capture pad - see the comments in the review section for an example of one user who does this.
Main features:
- Free!
- Globally floating capture window.
- Fast screen captures (uses OpenGL).
- Ability to down scale captures (proportionally or not).
- Save as PNG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, or GIFF.
- Adjustable translucency of capture window.
- Nifty capture sound.
- Options to auto-save to desktop, auto-copy to clipboard, etc.
- Barest beginnings of AppleScript support.
- Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
- Universal binary - Intel, PPC native.

Apple Image Capture SDK contains the version 2.0 release of the Image Capture SDK for both application development and camera/scanner module development.

It includes sample code and documentation demonstrating how to use the Image Capture framework on Mac OS 10.2 to access camera/scanner devices and how to write camera/scanner modules.

It also includes the CameraCheck tool which allows you to test your device with Image Capture, the Image Capture Brower, a tool for browsing ICA objects and properties, and the ICANotificationListener tool to check for ICA notifications..

Clipboard Image Dimensions can quickly provide the width and height of an image held by the clipboard without leaving the current application.

It can be run with a script editor, from system-wide script menus, such as FastScripts and Apples script menu, and by other utilities that allow users to launch compiled AppleScript scripts.

EOS Image Manager is a powerful tool for drag & drop of up to thousands of files at once, while at the same time renaming, re-case, and re-sorting them.

Linear Laundry is a two-part application designed to accurately and easily develop RAW photos. One part develops the RAW into a linear PSD file, and the a set of Photoshop actions can be used to create a true-color image. The final result is dramatically increased image quality, without the hightlight blow-outs typical of built-in processors.
Main features:
Raw to Linear PSD.app
- Mac OS X native application that converts Canon CRW photos to a linear PSD
- Built using dcraw and Platypus. You dont need to install or compile dcraw, an OS X binary is included inside the program.
LinearLaundry.atn
- This is a set of photoshop actions to easily develop Linear PSDs into bright, correctly colored photos.
- The actions are non-destructive. Each of the actions uses effect layers to develop the photo, so the original PSD is on the bottom layer, untouched.
- All of the actions can be used in batch processing as desired.
- The actions include: (pictures can be found on the product page)
- Gentle Cycle - Preserves all highlights. Takes about 30 seconds per image, but for high-saturation photos, its worth the wait.
- Quick Rinse - Develops about the same as Gentle Cycle, but can blow some highlights. Much Faster, ~2 sec/image.
- Bleach an a Bucket - Sometimes beautiful, sometimes a train wreck. Almost always an interesting effect. Some have described it as "Holga-like"
- Ansel Adams - High-contrast Black and White, with a slight channel skew
- Tumble Dry Low - Light sharpening routines
- High Heat - Heavy sharpening. May cause slight pixelation.
- Gimme a JPEG - convert from 16-bit to 8-bit mode, change the color profile for a web-based JPEG
Process Raw Darkroom.app
- Processes an entire set of photos using RAW to Linear PSD and LinearLaundry.atn
- Creates a set of full-res, JPEG images, and imports them into iPhoto
- Cleans up after itself.
- Uses jhead to re-add the camera EXIF information after processing.
- Assumes a very particular directory structure to work! Specifically:
- You are using Image Capture to download both CRW and THM files to the "Pictures" folder
- You have folders called "RAW Darkroom" and "RAW Negatives" made in your Pictures folder. "RAW Darkroom" will be used for temporary processing, and "RAW Negatives" will be used as long-term storage for your CRW and THM files
- Since Photoshop doesnt like it when people touch the keyboard in batch mode, you may want to run "Process Raw Darkroom.app" when youre going to step away from the computer for a bit.
Enhancements:
- Fixed jhead bug in "Process Raw Darkroom.app".
- EXIF is now added on again successfully.

Draw Caption on Image is a script that adds a text caption to the bottom of image files.

It is has numerous configurable options that can be modified by setting the properties at the beginning of the script.

Completly freeware.

SortImagesGUI is a little Java program helps you sorting your images from digital still image cameras. It reads the EXIF-Header of the JPEG-Files an copies the images from the source dir to a centralized target dir sorted by year, month and day.
The files are renamed to represent their capture date and time. So you will have a Image repository sorted by capture date of the images.
Additionally some of the image meta informations will be stored in a database along with the MD5 hash of the image as primary key. SortImages check each image beforce copying if its already in the database. If not, the image will sorted into the appropriate folder.
Enhancements:
- Ignores the special MacOS Finder meta files which may also have a .jpg ending.
- A database dump is written to the destination directory to make backup easier.