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ChocoFlop: Image and Photo Editing Application for Mac OS X.
ChocoFlop clearly positions itself as a lightweight alternative to very expensive graphics tools such as Adobe PhotoShop, (ex. MetaCreations) Corel Painter. It is meant to be smaller and much cheaper. Ideally the target users would be web or mobile designers and other creative people working with reasonably sized images.
Unlike many "Core Image Demonstration" type tools, ChocoFlop is meant to be usable in everyday work. The goal is not just to add as many filters to an image as possible and see what random
ChocoFlop clearly positions itself as a lightweight alternative to very expensive graphics tools such as Adobe PhotoShop, (ex. MetaCreations) Corel Painter. It is meant to be smaller and much cheaper. Ideally the target users would be web or mobile designers and other creative people working with reasonably sized images.
Unlike many "Core Image Demonstration" type tools, ChocoFlop is meant to be usable in everyday work. The goal is not just to add as many filters to an image as possible and see what random
What's New
Version 0.909:
- Oops, it seems the previous released was compiled without PowerPC code. My apologies to the G4/G5 users who reported this.
- It won't work on snow leopard but at least it'll work for those with PowerPC machines who cannot upgrade anyway :-)
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| Downloads:23,879 |
| Version Downloads:3,839 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:14 Sep 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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ChocoFlop: Image and Photo Editing Application for Mac OS X.
ChocoFlop clearly positions itself as a lightweight alternative to very expensive graphics tools such as Adobe PhotoShop, (ex. MetaCreations) Corel Painter. It is meant to be smaller and much cheaper. Ideally the target users would be web or mobile designers and other creative people working with reasonably sized images.
Unlike many "Core Image Demonstration" type tools, ChocoFlop is meant to be usable in everyday work. The goal is not just to add as many filters to an image as possible and see what random results one can achieve. I expect users to know what they want to be doing. Real-Time preview and non-destructive Effect layers will be available as required but they won't be the goal. This means people who have spent time learning industry standard tools will feel right at home when working with layers, layer masks, selections and painting tools.
This is and will probably remain a Mac Only tool. It uses Core Image at its heart to be able to utilize to its maximum the hardware. Thanks to great work of the guys at Apple I'll be able to focus on usability and not much about optimizing gaussian blur filters and such things. Thanks to the work that's already been done this project's development time will be much shorter than if I had to start from scratch. That said, this makes the app very dependant of the operating system.
ChocoFlop clearly positions itself as a lightweight alternative to very expensive graphics tools such as Adobe PhotoShop, (ex. MetaCreations) Corel Painter. It is meant to be smaller and much cheaper. Ideally the target users would be web or mobile designers and other creative people working with reasonably sized images.
Unlike many "Core Image Demonstration" type tools, ChocoFlop is meant to be usable in everyday work. The goal is not just to add as many filters to an image as possible and see what random results one can achieve. I expect users to know what they want to be doing. Real-Time preview and non-destructive Effect layers will be available as required but they won't be the goal. This means people who have spent time learning industry standard tools will feel right at home when working with layers, layer masks, selections and painting tools.
This is and will probably remain a Mac Only tool. It uses Core Image at its heart to be able to utilize to its maximum the hardware. Thanks to great work of the guys at Apple I'll be able to focus on usability and not much about optimizing gaussian blur filters and such things. Thanks to the work that's already been done this project's development time will be much shorter than if I had to start from scratch. That said, this makes the app very dependant of the operating system.
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Do NOT pay a developer to help him test his beta software.
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REGISTRATION IS NOT NEEDED ANYMORE SINCE DEVELOPMENT STOPPED :-(
So, it seems like this app is getting very minor updates/tweaks, but will never be primed for Snow Leopard. This is clearly mentioned in the initial splash screen:
"This is PRERELEASE software. It is not supposed to be stable.
This is NOT SUPPORTED ON MAC OS X 10.6+ (SNOW LEOPARD).
The changes required to get this to work on Snow Leopard are akin to
rewriting the whole thing (which would be a good thing anyway).
Sadly I cannot commit any more time to this so here you have it.
It's free without limitations, but it wll not evolve."
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For everybody using an intel mac (core duo or higher), running Leopard: give up using ChocoFlop!
There are better applications that do more.
After all, ChocoFlop started as an aqua port of "the Gimp", which is still actively maintained.
For the developer: pity to have paid once for an application that was hardly updated at all.
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Not that Chocoflop is usable, but I wanted to try its scaling algo;-)
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working... ....... -> stalls, beachball, stalls, beachball
Needs a lot of code- and speed optimizing..., beachball, beachball
creating Buffers... creating Buffers... creating Buffers...
Feels like a realbasic app on a 66 Mhz PPC, ...stalls, beachball...
Moving into trash... ChocoFlop -> delete, ...wow, that works surprisingly fast.
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I like this kind of dev. who don't take themselves too seriously (as long as the application is serious).
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tingting reviewed on 30 Jul 2007