Goldberg 2.5 review

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Goldberg is an image and movie viewer with some image editing capabilities such as QuickTime Effects, rotations (fixed and arbitrary), free zooming, selecting, cropping and printing.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 882K
Developer: Opus Software
Price: $0.00
Updated: 04 Nov 2005
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Goldberg is an image and movie viewer with some image editing capabilities such as QuickTime Effects, rotations (fixed and arbitrary), free zooming, selecting, cropping and printing.
Goldberg can read several image file formats as PICT, Photoshop, JPEG, TIFF, FlashPix, GIF, PNG, Targa, BMP, SGI files and also QuickTime movie files. Goldberg supports saving and exporting image as PICT, Photoshop, JPEG and TIFF, PNG, Targa, BMP, SGI and qtif (QuickTime Image Format) files.

Here are some key features of "Goldberg":
Read PICT, Photoshop, JPEG, JPEG 2, TIFF, FlashPix, GIF, PNG, Targa, BMP, SGI, and PDF files.
Save as PICT, TIFF, Photoshop, JPEG, or JPEG 2 file.
Export as PNG, Targa, BMP, SGI or qtif file.
Support PICT, Movie, TIFF and PDF Clipboard formats.
Copy to Clipboard as PICT with QuickTime compression.
Handle large PICT image (> 4095 pixels).
Can open several images in the Open file window (Navigation Services window).
Saving using long file name > 31 characters (under Mac OS X 10 only).
Display long file name in the window title (under Carbon and Mac OS X 10).
View as real or print size.
Contextual Menu support.
Printing
Tools:
Selection tool
Zoom-In & Zoom-out tools (with zoom in a given area by click and drag).
Hand tool, Hand too still available with the other tools (while CapsLock key is locked).
Editing Capabilities with Undo support:
Crop the current selection.
Resize image and change its resolution.
Rotation: 180, +/- 90 degrees and arbitrary + flip horizontally or vertically.
Applying QuickTime Effects such: Blur, Brightness & Contrast, Color Tint, Edge Detection, Emboss, HSL Balance, Sharpen, etc..
Revert to previous saved file.
Movie viewer's features:
Open and view QuickTime movie files and animated GIF files.
Allow to copy the current selection as a PICT (to extract one image) or a Movie (to extract a sequence).

What's New:
Finally Goldberg is a ColorSync savvy application.
The embedded ICC profile found in image is used when displaying or printing.
A Color Settings command in Edit menu has been added to change the default behavior with ICC profile and ColorSync.
The sRGB profile is automatically used as the default profile when a jpg file with an EXIF tag (image produced by a digital camera) has no embedded profile.
Goldberg 2.5 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger).

Requirements:
We recommand Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4
QuickTime 6.5 or later.

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