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) and OS X 10.7 (Lion). We would also like to have support for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and PowerPC Macs but can't guarantee that at this time.

We are currently aiming for compatibility with Photoshop CS2 & 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, as older versions of Photoshop and other graphics programs are not compatible with Apple's new "Mach-O" plugin format.

Mac Framework Choice

For the techies who are interested: we'll probably be using the Carbon framework instead of Cocoa. Adobe's SDKs are heavily Carbon based, and we're more familiar with C++ anyway. But if it's possible and Photoshop moves to Cocoa in later SDKs, we may change UI frameworks in the future.

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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