GraphicConverter 12 4+

The pocket knife for pictures

Lemke Software GmbH

    • 5.0 • 27 Ratings
    • $34.99

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Description

GraphicConverter 12 is the universal tool for browsing, enhancing, converting and renaming images. Simply drag a folder onto GraphicConverter 12 to view your
pictures.

The slide show for viewing and sorting images is a big hit among users. Use standard tools to edit images or display the most important controls in the window.

Professional users love GraphicConverter 12 because of it’s wide range of functions for handling meta data like Exif, IPTC, XMP and GPS. Want to copy the filename into the IPTC description? GraphicConverter 12 will take care of this for you.

You can open over 200 graphic file types and save images in over 80 formats. A simple multiple conversion mode takes care of batch runs. Want to use a batch function to alter the image size or change the color mode to CMYK? Dozens of batch functions are available.

GraphicConverter 12 has everything you would expect from a versatile image processing application for your Mac. Simple usage and far-reaching options await you along with stability and reliability.

In the press, GraphicConverter has been described as a “Swiss Army knife” and as an “all-round wizard for image editing on Macs”. We could not describe it better.

New features of version 12:

Metadata Juggler
With GraphicConverter you have always been able to edit the metadata of your images and move them to other fields. Now it's even easier. With the new Metadata Juggler dialog you can effortlessly combine several editing steps, save them and open them again at any time, just as you already know from the actions. Your advantage: You can, for example, delete parts of the metadata such as exposure time and aperture in one editing step and copy the contents of an IPTC field into another field, etc. The images are not opened and resaved. This means that there is no loss of quality with compressed formats such as JPG and HEIC, and RAW images can also be edited.

Automatic cropping
Just like on iPhones and iPads, you can now automatically crop people and objects and insert them into another image, for example. You won't believe your eyes.

Vector objects
Many have been waiting for this: lines, circles and rectangles can now be created as vector objects, optionally with a shadow. Save your image in GraphicConverter format /gcimgd) to be able to change the vector objects later.

Torn edge improved
If you don't want to show an image in its entirety, for example, because of space limitations, you can make the edge look like it's been torn off. Simply draw a zigzag line with the mouse. GraphicConverter tears off the lower part and adds a shadow. A new feature is that the torn-off part is moved to the right so that you can position it freely.

Import and export all settings
If you move to a different or new Mac, you can now easily take all settings and saved actions, etc. with you.

Multiple conversion: Favorites
In Convert & Modify, you can now save your regularly used folders as favorites.

GainMap gain data
HEIC images can now be saved with GainMap gain data.

Crosshairs
In order to be able to read the mouse position at any time during editing, a crosshair can be switched on in the settings, whose lines always go to the edge of the image. This makes it easier for you to orientate yourself while working.

Convert via drag and drop
Our new dialog makes quick conversions even easier. Drag your images onto the dialog and sit back. GraphicConverter does the conversion and performs an action at the same time if you wish.

Update metadata only
If you have only changed the IPTC/XMP metadata, you can now save these changes without resaving the entire file. This way you avoid unnecessary quality losses with formats like the JPG or the HEIC format.

Optimized for M1, M2 and Intel Macs.

And much more…

What’s New

Version 12.1.1

New features
• Menu Filter > Color Transfer…
• Import of PVT archives
• Menu General Metadata: PVT: Extract Images/Movies
• Menu File Attributes: Alias: Set creation and modification date to dates of original
• Menu Picture: Vector Elements: Convert Line into Square Bezier Curve and back
• Menu Actions: Sort into Subfolders: Custom
• Menu Convert & Modify: Convert CVG to PDF (vectors)
• Menu Layer: Enlarge Canvas to fit all Layers
• Preferences: General: Backup of Preferences

Updated features
• advance to next item in browser after deletion can be disabled in the prefs part browser > edit
• updated libDynapdf
• localizations
• shortcuts for browser view modes can be disabled in the settings > browser > edit
• import of JPEG: support for JPEG 9f
• Window Options for Save&Next: added save to original folder and rename original
• updated libz library to version 1.3.1
• export PNG: optimized dynamic method to get smaller files
• selection frame stops during moving at the image bounds
• browser: click onto favorite: old folder in folder tree can be collapsed and the new folder can be expanded depending onto the Prefs: Browser: Display
• updated ExifTool
• improved PICT support
• added sorting in folder tree for Photos library content
• Preferences Browser: Libraries - improved
• Preferences Open: Metadata IPTC/XMP - improved
• Edit: Operator: Options - option to change label after previous/next without saving
• compiled with Xcode 15.3
• improved tooltips in image window footer
• preferences: open: formats: PSD - option to disable preview generation with Core Image
• menu: view: scroll to: beginning of selection / end of selection in browser
• export HEIC: added option to use Core Image instead of Core Graphics onto Sonoma due a quality bug in macOS 14.4
• preferences: general: maps: cursor kind selection
• updated sparkle update framework
• vector elements rectangle and ellipse can be rotated by clicking with pressed command key into one edge point
• Preferences: Slideshow: Sound and Music: option to continue playing of sound file if new image has no sound file
• Browser: added rotation indicator to movies
• Browser: improved MPO detection during checking of file extensions

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
27 Ratings

27 Ratings

Allen Huffman ,

If your Mac contains any photos, you NEED THIS.

I have been using GraphicConveter since 2000. I mostly use it for organizing digital camera photos (dragging and dropping them in to named folders).

BUT, it comes in very handy to do conversions. Need to batch resize photos to upload somewhere? Change photo file formats? Crop? It does everything.

I was just about to buy a $30 program to Geotag some digital camera photos from a recent trip. I thought I'd check GraphicConverter first, and sure enouhg, it can open a GPS log file, and insert date codes in to photos (as well as edit GPS information and other EXIF data).

If there's one thing you think you'd use this program for, get it. There will be plenty more things it can do that you don't even think you want to do yet.

And, their support is EXCELLENT.

AZCoder1959 ,

Great product, great service

I was looking for a program that would help me with my digital art projects and GraphicsConverter12 has done that very well.

I had a problem with a seemingly corrupted file which concerned me at first, but the developer reached out and provided me a simple solution. Turns out the file is fine after all; the program needed to be updated is all.

Thanks, Thorsten!

Developer Response ,

Please forward the file which cause the crash to support@lemkesoft.com
Also, please forward the crashlog.

GraphicConverter does normally launch within one second. Did you grant full disk access in the Apple system settings? This is requires for quick browsing.

Do you use any antivirus tool which may interact?

Also, the Sandboxing may cause problems in the browser. Just contact our support to get a license for the version outside the Mac App Store.

mprudolf ,

Attn: Sandboxing Issue with Mac App Store Versions

GraphicConverter in an in every respect excellent and universally applicable tool for any and all imag needs — five stars!

One star deduction for sandboxing limitations:
The version GC 12 available here on the Mac App store has a major restrcition: it is impossible to copy or convert files between hard disks on your mac because GC can't access the root folder of your computer. Most users can live with this restriction, but if you cant, go to the Lemkesoft website and purchase their unsandboxed version.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.