What is Seashore?
Seashore is an open source image editing application for macOS. It is designed to be an easy-to-use, yet powerful photo editing software that is an alternative to proprietary options like Photoshop.
Some of the key features Seashore offers includes:
- Support for editing images in various formats like JPEG, PNG, TIFF etc.
- Layers and layer styles like drop shadow, inner shadow etc.
- Drawing tools like brushes, pens, eraser, paint bucket etc.
- Selection and transformation tools like marquee, lasso, rotate, flip etc.
- Filters like blur, sharpen, distort and art filters
- Support for masks and alpha channels
- Batched image processing
As Seashore is built using Cocoa Framework, it integrates well into the macOS ecosystem. The user interface is simple and intuitive for casual users. While it may lack some advanced features of paid alternatives, Seashore is good enough for basic image editing needs of most users.
Being an open source software, Seashore is completely free to download and use. It is community-driven and people can contribute to its development as well.