Developer(s) | Romain Piveteau |
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Initial release | May 2, 2005; 15 years ago |
Written in | Objective-C & Swift |
Operating system | macOS |
Type | Raster graphics editor |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www.livequartz.com |
Name | Description | Settings |
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Arrow tool | Moving, cutting and copying layers or part of layers with selections. | |
Brush tool | Paint with radial gradient shape. | Size and color |
Duplication tool | Duplication of pixels. Reference point is chosen by clicking with the 'alt' key. | Size |
Drawing tools (line, rectangle, filled rectangle, filled oval) | Draws shapes. With shift key, a constraint can be made. Circle for ovals, squares for rectangles, 45° or 90° for lines | Size, color, corner radius (for rectangles) |
Gradients tools (linear and radial) | Draws gradients. | Color 1, color 2 |
Text tool | Generates a rich text layer. | Color |
Eraser tool | Erase pixels with a radial gradient shape. | Size |
Background eraser and paint bucket tool | Background eraser will remove all the pixels in the layer having the same color as the one found on the mouse down click. Color tolerance is adjusted by maintaining mouse clicked and moving further from the initial point. Paint Bucket will fill the clicked color with the tool color. A color tolerance can be changed the same way as the background eraser. | Color |
Spiral tool | Used to set some filter point parameters. For example, when applying a bump distorsion, when the 'center' parameter is selected in the filter parameter user interface, the spiral tool is selected so the user can choose the application point. | |
Color picker tool | Used to set choose a color by clicking on the image. It picks the color with its transparency. | |
Rectangle selection tool | Will select a rectangle part of the image to limit editing to this zone or to crop the document or layer. | Color and border sharpness |
Oval selection tool | Will select an oval part of the image to limit editing to this zone or to crop the layer. | Color and border sharpness |
Lasso selection tool | Will select part of the image with a polygon path to limit editing to this zone or to crop the layer. The lasso has to modes. A first mode is used by maintaining the mouse clicked and another by successive clicks. | Color and border sharpness |
Magnifying glass tool | Used to increase or decrease the displayed size of the document. | Color and border sharpness |
Name | Alpha channel support | Write support |
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Rhapsoft Image Format (LiveQuartz save format) | Yes | Yes |
Portable Network Graphics | Yes | Yes |
JPEG | No | Yes |
TIFF | Yes | Yes |
HEIF | Yes | Yes |
JPEG 2000 | Yes | Yes |
Yes | Yes | |
GIF | Yes (1 bit) | Yes |
KTX | Yes | Yes |
BMP file format | No | Yes |
Photoshop PSD (Limited support: It looses non destructive informations like layers, etc.) | Yes | Yes |
Truevision TGA | Yes | Yes |
OpenEXR | Yes | Yes |
PBM | Yes | Yes |
X BitMap | No | No |
ICO | No | No |
PICT | No | No |
QuickTime Image | No | No |
Silicon Graphics Image | No | No |
Mac Paint | No | No |
FlashPix | No | No |
Apple Icon Image format | No | No |
Radiance | No | No |
Raw | No | No |
Release date | Version | Minimal macOS requirement | Release note |
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December 2018 | 2.8 | 10.11 | New features:
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September 2018 | 2.7 | 10.11 | New features (macOS Mojave):
Bug fixes:
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June 2018 | 2.6 | 10.11 | Features:
working on some performance enhancements for future updates)
Bug fixes:
etc.)
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April 2015 -> Spring 2018 | 2.5: a special 10 years Birthday version of LiveQuartz ? | 10.10 |
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October 2014 | 2.4 | 10.10 |
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April 2014 | 2.3 | 10.7.5 |
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09/2013 | 2.2 | 10.7.5 |
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03/2013 | 2.1 | 10.7.5 |
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08/2012 | 2.0 | 10.7.4 |
Graphical User Interface is 90% ready for Retina Display. Support of ‘Retina image editing’ will be enhanced in next releases.
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02/2012 | 1.9.7 | 10.6.6 |
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07/2011 | 1.9.6 | 10.6.6 |
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04/2011 | 1.9.5 | 10.6.6 |
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03/01/2011 | 1.9.4 | 10.6.6 |
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02/05/2011 | 1.9.3 | 10.6.6 |
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01/13/2011 | 1.9.2 | 10.6.6 |
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01/06/2011 | 1.9.1 (Mac App Store) | 10.6.6 |
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2011 | 1.9.0.1 | 10.6 |
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01/26/2010 | 1.9 | 10.6 |
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10/02/2009 | 1.8.4 | 10.5 |
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09/01/2009 | 1.8.3 | 10.5 |
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03/31/2009 | 1.8.2 | 10.5 |
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06/09/2008 | 1.8.1 | 10.5 |
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45°.
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04/16/2008 | 1.8 | 10.5 |
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04/01/2008 | 1.7.3 | 10.4 |
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02/16/2008 | version 1.7.2 | 10.4 |
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11/17/2007 | 1.7.1 | 10.4 |
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10/30/2007 | 1.7 | 10.4 |
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09/28/2007 | 1.6.5 | 10.4 |
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05/29/2007 | 1.6.4 | 10.4 |
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10/06/2006 | 1.6.3 | 10.4 |
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06/10/2006 | 1.6.2 | 10.4 |
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06/07/2006 | 1.6.1 | 10.4 |
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04/27/2006 | 1.6 | 10.4 |
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04/07/2006 | 1.5.2 | 10.4 |
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01/15/2006 | 1.5.1 | 10.4 |
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01/09/2006 | 1.5 | 10.4 |
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11/01/2005 | 1.2 | 10.4 |
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09/13/2005 | 1.1 | 10.4 |
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08/23/2005 | 1.0.2 | 10.4 |
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08/20/2005 | 1.0.1 | 10.4 |
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08/16/2005 | 1.0 final | 10.4 |
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06/13/2005 | 1.0 ß5 | 10.4 |
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05/16/2005 | 1.0 ß4 | 10.4 |
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05/12/2005 | LiveQuartz 1.0 ß3 | 10.4 |
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05/09/2005 | iMage 1.0 ß2 | 10.4 |
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05/02/2005 | iMage 1.0 ß1 | 10.4 | Big mean folder machine 2 35 download free. First public release |
Autumn 2004 | Alpha | 10.3 | first internal builds of “iMage” |