{"id":201,"date":"2007-11-11T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2007\/11\/11\/awesome-image-editor-for-macosx-imagewell\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:37:12","slug":"awesome-image-editor-for-macosx-imagewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2007\/11\/11\/awesome-image-editor-for-macosx-imagewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome image editor for MacOSX: Imagewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/imagewell.jpg?resize=128%2C128&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" alt=\"imagewell.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in search of a quick, simple and modern image editor for the Mac. For far too long I&#8217;ve been dragging around Photoshop 7, simply because I know I can use it to quickly do what I want. But what I need to do is limited. I want to resize and scale photos, add text (watermarks) to them and maybe overlay one or two. Maybe take a PDF and rasterize it to a thumbnail. I deal a lot with screenshots and adding hi-lights to them is about the most complicated task I ever need to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked at the Gimp for OSX and recently Acorn (which seems totally alien to me- couldn&#8217;t get it to do the most basic things) and have been frustrated, till today. Banging away at google I hit upon <a href=\"http:\/\/xtralean.com\/IWOverview.html\">Imagewell<\/a>. The people at XtraLean put this app out, and it is exactly what I was looking for (and it works fine in Leopard). It has a crazy price (free for basic stuff- and what it does for free is amazing) and is only $20 bucks to unlock the more advanced features.<\/p>\n<p>It easily passed my acid test- I was able to download it without a bunch of questions and i could use it right away. I pulled in a PDF and was able to quickly resize it to the size I needed and save it out as a png. Very easy and intutive. Intrigued, I went back to their site and looked around the Forums and stumbled across their concise and short <a href=\"http:\/\/xtralean.com\/IWManual3\/index.html\">screen casts<\/a>, which quickly illustrate the cool things you can do with this app. I think I&#8217;ll buy this one and can leave Photoshop 7 to finally wither away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in search of a quick, simple and modern image editor for the Mac. For far too long I&#8217;ve been dragging around Photoshop 7, simply because I know I can use it to quickly do what I want. But what I need to do is limited. I want to resize and scale photos, add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-3f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2004\/07\/27\/nice-opensource-editor-for-mac-smultron\/","url_meta":{"origin":201,"position":0},"title":"Nice OpenSource Editor for Mac: Smultron","author":"admin","date":"July 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I found this really cool editor today on What Do I Know's Sidebar. 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