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EDITOR NOTES
Currently in beta stage of development.
DESCRIPTION
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.
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 :-)
REQUIREMENTS
1 GHz G4 or better, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Growl installed.
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| ChocoFlop User Reviews (12 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 15 2009 |
XENOPHILE Teachable moment for all the suckers who paid for this: Do NOT pay a developer to help him test his beta software.
(Version 0.909) | |
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| Sep 15 2009 |
CARLOS85 Nothing wrong with contributing a little something to (what once was) a good prospect. Just because it didn't work out, doesn't mean the people who supported the developer are "suckers."
(Version 0.909) | |
| Sep 13 2009 |
MACSOLU The developer of this app has stated that this is the last version. All future development has stopped and the app is no longer shareware; it is now freeware.
(Version 0.908) | |
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| Sep 14 2009 |
MACSOLU OK, so now I'm confused. After this app is installed and launched, pressing the registration button brings up this window: 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."
(Version 0.909) | |
| Sep 9 2009 |
PLASTERPYRUS Thanks to the developer for constantly improving ChocoFlop, specially for continuing support for PPC, which some of us continue to use. I find that the developer from the beginning has worked at adding features and squashing bugs, and as far as I know thatÂ’s what the development of an applications suppose to be in the beta stage which it is in.
(Version 0.908) | |
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| Sep 8 2009 |
COUNTPOLLEN After the "I give up" message in the last update (08 sept. 2009) I just have to add: 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.
(Version 0.908) | |
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| Apr 29 2009 |
BUMBLEB For the last few days I've been trying to download Chocoflop, but the site is dead. Anyone knows what happened? Not that Chocoflop is usable, but I wanted to try its scaling algo;-)
(Version 0.907) | |
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| Dec 8 2008 |
CARLOS85 I purchased a license for this a while back to support its development because I see that it has potential and would love to use it once it goes stable. But for now is pretty much unusable for me. I trashed this version after using it only once since simply zooming in and out of the image with the scroll button on my mouse caused Chocoflop to crash. Previous versions were more stable for me.
(Version 0.901) | |
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| Dec 27 2008 |
CARLOS85 0.903 crashed on my after undoing an image resize. Using a MacBook with GMA 950 graphics.
(Version 0.903) | |
| Dec 8 2008 |
MAMI creating Buffers... ....... -> stalls, beachball, beachball 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.
(Version 0.901) | |
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 | Dec 11 2007 |
GROSSEBOUILLE It works very well now !! Congratulations !
(Version 0.73) | |
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| Dec 2 2007 |
JOELLEVIN The name of this app sort of convinces me not to download it.
(Version 0.7) | |
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| Dec 10 2007 |
GAOSHAN I was about to make a similar comment and also won't use it. I wonder what the inspiration for the name could possibly be?
(Version 0.71) | |
| Dec 10 2007 |
ZEBA I will paraphrase one saying: "Do not judge the program by the icon (name, in this case) but by the things it can do for you."
(Version 0.71) | |
| Mar 26 2008 |
JEAN-MARIE The name is clearly inspired by 'Photoshop', kinda anagram... I like this kind of dev. who don't take themselves too seriously (as long as the application is serious).
(Version 0.78) | |
| Jan 12 2009 |
ROBERT And Cocoa, and FLOating Point operations (Core Image). What'd you think it meant?
(Version 0.903) | |
| Jul 30 2007 |
TINGTING Rating is based on a .65 release. It's pretty dang sweet. I've been hating opening the old Photoshop Elements and it takes fifteen years to turn on and my fans start going ballistic. Try it, you'll enjoy. Some bugs to be worked out, but quite nice for .65. Nice.
(Version 0.65) | |
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