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I tried Seashore a few years ago but it was completely unstable. The link says they've done a lot of bug fixes to make it work on more recent macOS releases so I'm looking forward to checking it out.

EDIT: Downloaded and tried it. Glad that the UI is simpler than Gimp but it's actually less obvious how to use it. Sad, because I think there's real promise here. Hopefully Glimpse comes to macOS.

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Same, but if I’m being honest, I won’t check it out. There’s so much competition in this space that I don’t need to.

I paid for Pixelmator Pro recently because I needed to do a repetitive task. It comes with several useful Automator actions that were exactly what I needed.

Plus it’s new ML features are great. I used it to enlarge a jpg 4x with no loss in resolution. It’s not always perfect, but it’s pretty damn good.

I love FOSS and wish Seashore success, but past experience plus healthy competition means I don’t feel the need to.

Didn't know Glimpse, looked it up and unfortunately the project is "on hiatus": https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/

Wasn’t the whole point of that fork just to change the name/branding because some people thought the acronym “GIMP” was offensive?

Not surprised that it’s dead now.

Not true. Glimpse editor wasn't just a fork with moderate name and logo. It had come with improved installers and some UI tweaks. And there was a future plan to complete overhaul for UI as Glimpse NX.

The reason for the project's stagnation was lead developer's departure due to request from their employer (Oracle, if my memory was correct).

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