Which Graphics program for my new MBP?

[maccanuck2006]

Hi:

For basic and even advanced photo editing (I mainly shoot pictures of my kids with a digital SLR) I find Aperture more than enough for my needs and at a much better price point ($169.00 CDN with the Edu discount) than what I would have to pay with CS 3. Frankly I don't think that I would have used even 5% of the power of the CS3 suite even if I had it.

Aperture runs very well on my 2.4 GHz MBP with 2Gigs of RAM. My only complaint so far is its annoying habit of duplicating my pics (and eating up large chunks of HD space) rather than mirroring them from iPhoto when I import into the Aperture library (anyone know how to fix this, BTW?)

 

[Cfour]

Theres another which I can't remember the name fully for, I think its seagull.

Seashore?
If it is I found it a little too basic, but quite simple and straightforward otherwise for basic image manipulation. Not really my 'cuppa tea' lol.

Cfour.

 

[LeviG]

Seashore?
If it is I found it a little too basic, but quite simple and straightforward otherwise for basic image manipulation. Not really my 'cuppa tea' lol.

Cfour.

sounds like it

 

[Genghis Khan]

CS3 is what you need without a doubt...it's the industry standard, and for good reason

although pixelmator does look tempting should it ever be released

 

[macbotics]

my reccomendation

i reccomend gimpshop, best of all its free

Very similar to photoshop and seashore (based on gimp)

But youll need X11 installed from your mac's 1st install disk


You can download it from here: www.gimp.org

 

[weckart]

Having got CS3 out of the door, Adobe should be working on Photoshop Essentials 5 (6?) for the Mac, having stalled at 4 because of the platform change from PPC to x86. No details about when, though, but it is a cheap alternative to full-blown Photoshop and has enough features for most casual users. Version 4 is a bit slow on Intel Macs but usable.

 

[dcv]

I've put Photoshop CS on there for now, it seems useable. I'm not a graphics "pro" so I'm not gonna waste my money on CS3. And having used Photoshop CS I'm not really a fan of the Elements version.

Might have a look at Gimpshop but almost certainly going to buy Pixelmator once it's released.


Thanks for all the replies

 

[Genghis Khan]

just a sidenote
gimp is about as effective as photoshop...but it uses slightly different tools...so much that you can't really take your knowledge from one to the other