Notable features found in the 1.5 release include CMYK, L*a*b and many more colorspaces, with bit depths from 8 to 32 bits per channel. As of 2006, many plugins written over the years for these other applications were not yet available for Krita. It been influenced to an extent by Corel Painter. Krita's design emphasizes creating new images as opposed to manipulating existing photographs. Before any public release, it was called KImageShop and then later Krayon, but legal matters motivated a change from these names. It was released for the first time as a part of KOffice version 1.4.0, on June 21, 2005. Designed to be both a painting application and a photo editor, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License. Krita is the bitmap graphics editor software included with the KDE based KOffice suite. Seashore is written using the native Mac toolkit, Cocoa. Gimp.app has many features that Seashore does not have, but it requires a version of X11 to run. Currently there is a working version of GIMP for Mac OS X, Gimp.app. It lacks many of the features that GIMP has, but Seashore's purpose is to become an easy-to-use Free Software graphics editor that runs natively on Mac OS X. Seashore is currently at version 0.1.9 and is considered to be in Beta stages. Seashore offers a smaller number of features in comparison with GIMP, including layers and alpha channel support, gradients and transparency effects, anti-aliased brushes, tablet support and plug-in filters. Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF and GIF. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API.
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