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Compiling Opacity Images

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Opacity is great for creating graphics for use in applications, but how do you ship those images with the application? Including the .opacity file itself would be bad (that would be like shipping your source code with the application), a native image format like TIFF would be better. At the same time, though, it’d be nice to be able to directly edit a .opacity source file and not have to manually rebuild the associated .tiff file each time. Luckily there’s an easy way to make this happen automatically with Opacity.

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Why Opacity?

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I few months ago I released Opacity, a new graphics editor. With all of the other graphics editors available on Mac OS X, I want to write a little about why I thought it was necessary to create Opacity.

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