Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Macintosh
Quick photo editing (through Dashboard?)
by Ted Wallingford Nov 29th 2007 at 8:00PM
Sometimes you need to process, crop, clip, or otherwise edit an image file in a hurry--and Photoshop takes longer to launch than most folks are willing to wait when a simple image modification is all that's needed. That's why we were pretty excited to find out about Photo Drop, a Mac Dashboard widget that really seems to speed up quicky image edits. Since Photo Drop is a widget, you can drag files to it from other widgets or even from your desktop (drag the file to a hotcorner to activate Dashboard and then drop it on the Photo Drop widget). When you're done with your edits, drag it back out to the Finder and off you go.
Photo Drop provides several handy manipulations including cropping, resizing, borders, and some tasty eye candy like "1-bit", which will convert your photo into a strictly black and white image. We're digging it.
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eskobar said 9:14AM on 11-30-2007
Seems like a nice app, but I'm still encountering some bugs:
only a little part of the widget is showing the actual (pasted or captured) picture. Only the left corner is showing a part.. weird :s
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Janos Rusiczki said 1:56PM on 11-30-2007
Yep, only the left upper corner shows something. But this renders it unusable for me. Unfortunately.
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