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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 |
 | 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 11 2007 |
GROSSEBOUILLE It works very well now !! Congratulations !
(Version 0.73) | |
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| 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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| 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 |
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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| 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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| Aug 18 2006 |
B3NJ4M The screenshot looks very nice. I'd love to have an image editor that takes advantage of cocoa for its interface. However, Any image that I tried to open would only result in a severely distorted version of a different image in the same directory...
(Version 0.42) | |
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| Apr 6 2007 |
ORION MK. V Check out Seashore if ChocoFlop isn't working right for you.
(Version 0.62) | |
| Aug 4 2006 |
ANCIENTYGER Really, nice applilcation. Looking forward to 1.0 release, should be a very powerful app. As it matures i hope other apps(specifically, Cocoa apps) will look to it as an alternative to Pshop or Gimp. Gimp.app is nice, but this is all cocoa and makes use of Core Image. This is more than an aggregate of image units but a real image editing app. In many ways, more powerful than Seashore is currently, but Seashore can access .xcf files... which Gimp.app can make of .psd files. Working in 128 bit.. in Chocofloop... is nice though! Looking forward to a Beta version.. .heh.. when the final version is out.. i think we'll all be used to using it already!
(Version 0.40) | |
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| 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."
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