There’s not a lot to say yet about LiveQuartz, an image editor currently in beta. It’s still pretty rough around the edges, and isn’t about to give Graphic Converter a run for the title of low-end graphics champ. However, there are a few features worth noting, including the fact that it’s a Tiger-only program (it relies on CoreImage technology). It’s also one of the first shareware programs I’ve seen that comes as a Universal Binary file that can run on Mac OS on either PowerPC or Intel processors. We’ll watch this one, and see whether it emerges as more than just a testbed for CoreImage and the Universal Binary. In the meantime, if you’ve got Tiger running on an Intel machine, you may as well download it and check it out.
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