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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.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.907:
  • This version has a small dcraw update which is now version 8.93.
  • File requester now works with .rw2 and .rwl files
REQUIREMENTS
1 GHz G4 or better, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Growl installed.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:Santiago Lema
Downloads:19,485
  - Version d/l:1,010
Multimedia & Design:Image Editing
License:Shareware
Date:14 Mar 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
*****
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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)

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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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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)

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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)

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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)

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Jan 12 2009

ROBERT  And Cocoa, and FLOating Point operations (Core Image). What'd you think it meant?  
(Version 0.903)

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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)

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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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