Another glaring oversight of having a Mac, and one that I think should be exploited by those making parodies of the Mac v PC ads

I have a mac, therefore, I can do “everything” out of the box…except resize an image. Or create an image. Or, edit an image in any way. There is no Mac equivalent to MS Paint. Not that paint is very good, but at least in a pinch you can save a screenshot to paint and then resize it. Sure, the Grab utility in Mac OS X is great, but it’s not very much good to me at full size. Ohhh, right, I’m supposed to buy Photoshop, because that’s the only well known program that PC users are going to recognize that is also on a Mac that can edit images. Or I Google a lot and find a bunch of new programs I’ve never heard of, none of which are endorsed by Apple.

So, anyway, I’ve settled on SeaShore, which is based on GIMP. I didn’t like GIMP because it runs in X11 and doesn’t interpret key commands “properly”. By properly, I mean the same way Cocoa apps behave. You have to click on a window before you can click on any buttons in X11 i.e. if you are looking at the image and want to change tools, you must click the tool twice. One click selects the tool window, and one selects the tool. Then you have to click twice in the image to start using the tool. Annoying. Oh, and all of the commands are mapped to control button, not the command button. Also annoying.

SeaShore is a very cut down version of the gimp, but it’s small, Mac friendly, and allows me to paste and resize my screenshot easily

I also stumbled across this blog entry from 2006 that discusses some of the free editing tools for Mac, all of which turned up in my search as well, but it’s easier to link there for a summary.