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Schmye Bubbula:
Hello from a fellow ACT-member, Mike!

I've seen your comments over the years about the possibility of a Mac version of Curvemeister, and I've abandoned all hope that it will ever happen. So how about a stand-alone Windows app version, but sufficiently standards-based (i.e., no Microsoft "shenanigans") to run under Wine, so I could use it under CrossOver Mac? (The boss won't spring for redundant Windows versions of Photoshop.)

Crossover Mac or some other incarnation of Wine is all that is allowed on our Macs. Due to the threat to National Security, our company policy expressly prohibits the full Windows OS. But merely having Wine's white-room-emulated Windows APIs libraries will pass muster, inasmuch as they are immune to all Windows hacks, viruses, malware, etc.

Would it be fairly easy to put Curvemeister into even a crude shell app? No frills, just something that will open an image and preview the curves.

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Thanks for listening,
George Machen

curvemeister:
I've been getting an increasing number of requests for a Mac version, not only from Macintosh folks, but from former Windows users who migrate to the Mac, and then want to continue to use Curvemeister.

Although I had considered a stand alone version initially, I hadn't thought of this as a way to provide some curves functionality to Macintosh folks, so this is a new consideration.  Since curvemeister uses a lot of Photoshop's functionality, the amount of work is not trivial - though it would be easier than a full port.

One thought would be to use Elements, which supports Curvemeister perfectly well at a fraction of the cost of Photoshop.

prof.jewell:
A second vote for such a stand alone version of Curvemeister--but for quite different reasons (maybe more like the original reason?).  :'(

curvemeister:
You know, it's been a while since I visited this thread, so long that it seems like a fresh new idea again! 

The big problem is the ancillary support for color space conversions to Lab and CMYK mode, support for various masking operations, file formats, etc.  But these are much less work than porting Curvemeister to the mac platform.  I can't promise anything at this point, but hmmmm...

Lee Harper:
In terms of color space conversion, I think that for me this would be the biggest benefit of working outside of Photoshop's framework. I would love CurveMeister to use Bruce Lindbloom's Uniform Perceptual Lab color space (www.brucelindbloom.com), rather than the version of Lab that Adobe use. Jacob Rus has also been discussing the shortfalls of the color modes available in Photoshop on Dan Margulis' Advanced Color Theory mailing list lately. I know that Jacob is a member of this forum - I wonder what advice he might have in this regard.

In terms of implementing the Uniform Perceptual Lab color space, you could use Little CMS (www.littlecms.com) as the standalone CMM.

I think that turning CurveMeister into a standalone application would allow you to make it vastly more powerful - and therefore more useful, and more attractive to new users.

Lee.

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