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Re: Seashore's simple/basic graphic editor replacement in mac OS v10.12/Sierra?

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On 2016-10-18 14:35:30 +0000, "Bob" <bob@bob.invalid> said:

> In comp.sys.mac.apps Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> 
>> Old Seashore graphic editor crashes in mac OS Sierra/v10.12. I assume
>> there will be no way to get it to work from what I read in its SF forum
>> since others reported the same issue. And the developer hasn't worked on
>> it for many years.
> 
>> Does anyone know of a good free replacement for it? Gimp is too slow,
>> bloated, and advanced for me.
> 
> I also like Seashore and use it regularly under El Capitan.  I just
> tried to use Seashore on a test machine with Sierra and it crashed
> for me as well. That's disapointing.
> 
> If you wanted to keep using Seashore, you could set-up El Capitan in a
> virtual machine and run it that way.
> 
> I don't know of something free to replace Seashore with, but for
> $30 Acorn (available in the App Store) is very good and gets regular
> updates from the developer.  I got Acorn, after having used Seashore
> for a number of years and I found it fairly easy to figure how to
> get it to do what I wanted.  While Acorn doesn't work exactly like
> Seashore, it is similar.

Seashore is a Cocoa UI implementation of GIMP, and while Acorn does a 
good enough job, both Pixelmator and Affinity Photo are far superior.
-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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Seashore's simple/basic graphic editor replacement in mac OS v10.12/Sierra? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-16 18:11 -0500
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