Download ImageWell for Mac - Edit images or make screen shots and send to the web. MacUpdate Mac Image Editing Software Downloads

Full License: free upgrades through and including version 4.0

ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop and resize your image or screenshot and upload it to your iDisk (.mac account), FTP, WebDAV server or flickr, SmugMug or ImageShack. No need to launch multiple applications to add text, labels, drop shadows and shapes. At the click of button the image is sent and a handy URL is copied to the clipboard.

Universal Binary, Leopard support
supports flickr, SmugMug, ImageShack
Resize, Rotate, and Crop images easily
Batch resizing, watermarking
Built-in screenshot functionality
Drop Shadows and Watermarks
Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness controls
Layer multiple images on canvas
Add shapes for borders and drop shadows to your image
Add talking balloons, thought clouds or labels
Annotate your image with arrows, circles, squares or text
One click to send image or file to your iDisk, SFTP, FTP or WebDAV server
Web preview and quality/size adjustment tool before uploading to the web
Grab images directly from your digital camera
Automatically creates url or html tags of uploaded images
Multiple server locations can be added and stored to your locations list
URL History for pasting multiple images/links all at once
Check for overwrite on server
plus much more...

Version 3.7.5:

fixed problem with having a colon in a password
fixed problem with canvas size text fields

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TECHCHICK99 I was looking for a small app to help me crop and resize pictures and one of my colleagues recommended ImageWell. And yes, it is simple, easy and quickly done.

The only thing that I really don't understand: Why do you guys hide the save button? I always have to search for it. GUI could be optimized in terms of usabilty.
(Version 3.7.3)

AMANDACREAM Awesome screen shot app. Most versatile for my needs on the market. Is a must have along with Snitch and Jing. The Pro version is worth every penny and then some.
(Version 3.7)

RPAEGE With the exception of drag and drop thumbnail creation, ImageWell beats Thumbsup! hands down.

Imagewell allows more manual control than Thumbsup!, and that is a major plus.

Thumbsup! has a fatal flaw if you drop a multipage PDF file onto it the resulting thumbnail will be of the second page of the document, not the first. This renders it impractical for production work.

ImageWell, on the other hand, offers much more reliable and robust processing, with a responsive devoloper.

Thumbsup!'s developer seems not to care too much which is forgivable given that his app is free.

Imagewell could be vastly improved if it took Thumbsups!'s drag and drop capability and fixed it so it actually works properly with PDF files.

-1 to ImageWell for lack of drag and drop mode. +5 for ease of use, value and stability.

This is simply the best quick editor available.
(Version 3.7)

FFASS ImageWell works great for my needs. It's a WYSIWYG resizer, so you can see your image resize as you drag a slider. I've used many of it's features: adding borders & text to images, grouping multiple jpegs together to make a single jpeg, and even adding cartoon speech balloons. It can also save your PDF and PSD docs as jpeg, tiff, or png files. There's a bit of a learning curve to use all of it's features so maybe there's a way the developer can simplify the controls or make the controls more obvious (maybe use an inspector palette so the controls are always visible somewhere). Well worth the $20 since I use it quite often.
(Version 3.5.3)

NOSFERATU Oh, I have forgotten:

I would be fair to split the reviews for the new payware version from the old freeware version, most high star ratings were given for the freeware version.

I've downloaded this app cause of it high rating, but afterwards as I see the reviews, the most people rated the freeware such high, that seems not very fair if I think of the competitors.

I would be like "at first I make it freeware to get friendly and highrated reviews and then I switch to payware with all the good old freeware reviews staying".

I am no competitor, only a user but I don't want to be tricked in any way. I think many visitors are using the star rating for the first orientation, like I did.

Freeware is rated more friendly of course, so I think it would be fair from this sites admins to correct that. It is misleading and a bit of unfair competition now.

I will try now the apps listed under "OTHER PEOPLE SUGGEST" but that's not the same as a fair comparison would be.
(Version 3.5.3)

BEBDABHRHBRWEFG 3R§5Y5H4WTEDSFB whatever the benefits of imagewell, i'm extremely distrustful of apps which bypass your firewall to 'phone home'
(Version 3.2)

Replies:

Jul 10 2007

XTRALEAN ImageWell doesn't phone home, never did and never will. It doesn't even automatically check for updates.

If you are wondering how ImageWell detects pirated serial numbers, these numbers are already inside the ImageWell product - so there is no need to 'phone home' bypass firewalls etc. So if a pirate set up a firewall, turned off their internet connection, used Snitch or whatever, ImageWell would still detect the pirated serial number.

As an interesting side note to piracy. I was completely surprised by the sheer number of them, for every sale of the Xtras, there were 3 pirates that tried to steal the Xtras with a pirated number. That's just an incredible amount when you think about it.

Imagine what a retail store would do if for every item sold there were 3 theives that were ready to steal that item?

The Internet is a wonderful place, you can find free products like ImageWell. Anyone can also find pirated serial numbers to easily steal software, and developers can find these numbers too - it doesn't take much cleverness. Heck if we developers can develop a product we certainly can find pirated serial numbers for our own product.

So phoning home? bypassing firewalls? LOL, I just put the pirated serial number inside the product, I don't have to be that clever to detect it.

I'm sure it won't take long before there is a new batch of pirated serial numbers, so for the next update of ImageWell, I'll have to add those numbers as well. Unless, I don't mind having 3 ImageWell Xtras stolen for every one copy sold.

As a final note, I'm happy to say that there are hundreds of thousands of happy users of ImageWell that are using ImageWell in free mode. ImageWell is localized in 14 different languages, and we'll being adding Russian as the 15th language donated by a generous ImageWell user. I certainly wouldn't build an application that destroys the trust of these users.

That's all, sorry for the long response,

Hagen Kaye
(Version 3.2)

-1

Nov 20 2007

FLOODLE I can understand your position - you want people to pay for your software. This is completely reasonable.

However, please don't muddy the waters of this complex issue by incorrectly referring to it as "stealing." The proper term, of course, is "copyright infringement." I know you want to be paid for your software, but creating bogus analogies isn't the way to encourage people to do so.

Is copyright infringement illegal? Yes. Is it immoral? Possibly. But whatever it is, it doesn't magically become stealing because you wish it to be so.

I really like this App and I'm seriously considering paying for the extras. I regret that I won't be able to buy your program, though, if you continue to confuse people with talk of "stealing." I prefer to vote with my dollars and give my money to developers who don't intentionally try to confuse and guilt users by conflating theft and copyright infringement.
(Version 3.3.1)

Nov 20 2007

XTRALEAN Actually, I should add an amendment to this post.

ImageWell 3.3 now checks the serial numbers with our server for valid numbers. By checking the serial numbers with our server the phony serial numbers that have been floating around the net no longer work - only serial numbers that have been purchased work.

And we added the feature for checking for automated updates.

To respond to your statement -

"I really like this App and I'm seriously considering paying for the extras. I regret that I won't be able to buy your program, though, if you continue to confuse people with talk of "stealing."

On Apple's Leopard Install disk package it says -

"Don't steal software"

So I guess by your reasoning, you won't be buying Leopard.

LOL.
(Version 3.3.1)

-1

NOSFERATU Not that bad, but would better if the intial dialog window would be bigger and resizable.

All the features are so disorganized and hard to use, for example to sharpen a resized image you need to go to an extra second dialog window each time and edit it there. That seems a bit stupid to me, because if you make an image smaller (first dialog window) it nearly _always_ needs a bit sharpening (second dialog window). That's _one_ step: Resizing & Sharpening, - but in ImageWell you have to go throu _two_ dialog windows just for that.

And I don't like the image editing tools (contrast, etc.) to be inside the edit window, they are to small, you can't handle that tiny sliders there if you have a high screen resolution.

You make to big steps if you move the slider only a bit. To use the sliders in a sensitive way, they need to be longer, I would put them in a moveable tool palette (Here is the place for a second window, just combine the first two dialog windows into one resizable window and put the tools in a floating window.)

The next thing I don't like is the long time till you see changes, the time it needs to redraw and show your changes is far to long. If I drag a slider I want to see the changes immediatly.

Next: All is so tiny, is this app designed for 640 x 480 screens?, It's an OS X app, who uses such small screen resolutions on OS X?

And, very important: where is the tool for correcting the white balance? Only contrast, saturation, brightness, but on many images you need to change the white point a bit. That basic feature is missing completely in ImageWell.

My conclusion: ImageWell is to disorganized for me and on big screens not useable, the app needs a redesign for a faster and better workflow.

I stay with GrahicConverter (Althought I hate GrahicConverter's interface as well) because I get so much more for a little bit more money. And for the smaller tasks I use the fantastic freeware PhotoToolCM (to poor that I can only use it on my PPCs, I would prefer to pay the 20 dollars to the developer of PhotoToolCM if he would make it Intel-ready.).

That's my review, like it or not.
(Version 3.5.3)

FREDDUCKER It does a great job for cropping pictures. At least there's an option so that your pictures don't come out all squeezed, and the free trial lets you do what you need to see the program with no restrictions.

I had thumbnails to create, and I'm really happy I found it, it should be given consideration. Great app.
(Version 3.5.3)

KPE I bought this to add a watermark to geotagged photos I wanted to upload to flickr. I didn't realize that is strips out EXIF data. As is, Imagewell is useless to me. I should have spent more time with the demo before I bought.
(Version 3.5.3)

ROSENKRIEGER I prefer Skitch.

- Everything in a visual attractive GUI

- Currently free ( beta )

I will buy Skitch once it costs because its simply the best tool to do screenshots, comments, touchups and uploads.

It even has a skitch hosting service. Check out the video on the site, give it a try - you'll love it!
(Version 3.5.1)