Is there a Mac version of your software?

Short version: No, not at this time, but we're working on it.

Long version: Development has started on our Mac OS X Photoshop plugins. We do not have a planned release date yet. Thank you to all the Mac users who have emailed us, we appreciate your support. If you would like to be a beta tester for our plugins (when they're ready), please fill out our Beta Tester Signup form. Thanks!

Supported Programs / OS / CPUs (may change)

We hope to support Intel Macs, running OS X 10.5 (Leopard), OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), OS X 10.7 (Lion) and hopefully OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). It's unlikely that we'll be supporting PowerPC Macs, sorry.

We are currently aiming for compatibility with Photoshop Elements 6 & above. We've been working with the developers of a well-known shareware graphics editor to add Intel Photoshop Plugin support to their program too, and we hope other programs will become compatible by using AlphaPlugins Launchbox to add Photoshop plugin compatibility to iPhoto and other programs.

Mac Framework Choice

For the techies who are interested: we've been working in the Carbon framework so far, but need to move to Cocoa. Adobe's SDKs were heavily Carbon based, and we're more familiar with C++, so the programming is a bit uphill at the moment.

Porting / Outsourcing?

Our plugins are being rewritten natively for the Mac in C++, using native Mac frameworks. This is not a port, as our Windows code is not written in C++. We've been trying to develop the plugins ourselves, but time constraints and a few tech obstacles have hampered our efforts - we might be collaborating with others in the future in order to see some progress, but no decision has been made yet.

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