What Is A Good, But Cheaper Alternative To Photoshop For Mac
This thread is looking like a drunk uncle doing the robot at a friends wedding. Without a doubt try, it's a very well designed application and isn't nearly as tweaky as GIMP plus does far more than the other suggested applications. Furthermore you can get a 30-day trial, while the application wont break the bank for $30 and on comparison with PS Elements this is far better for features, ease of use, online community and price.
I've actually been using this more than Photoshop 5.5 recently, it's a little snappier with the new build and GPU rendering. Paint is pretty rubbish no offense. Try Pixelmator I can recommend it, and for $30 you're getting an excellent application. Click to expand.I'm really not a fan of GIMP and GIMPshop/App they have an air of duct tape and glue about them, don't get me wrong there are not bad for what they are though they're not the nicest of UX around not to mention it's very clunky to actually use. It's just not a refine experience or application that's why it would always be hard to recommend to prosumers or newbies. While GIMP in Lion I'm less than impressed with, not sure if it's the actual build or Lion but it does seem sluggish and flaky for the moment. This is the main reason I'd recommend Pixelmator over GIMP, the user interface, support with tutorials/help, how it runs on Lion (1.6.7 is awesome in Lion), price and overall experience is far better even though you need to invest the whopping $30, otherswise you can trial it for 30 days as well and see how it goes from there.
I downloaded a Pixelmator demo and do agree that it's a brilliant program. $30 seems well worth it. In defense of GIMP, the program looks better on Debian Linux, where it is a native application on Linux. It is usable, and has many wonderful plug-ins and scripts that others have created and shared. In defense of open-source in general, it serves a purpose that there is no excuse for piracy or warez because no one can say they have no choice.
But there is a line between finding usability with open-source and being completely freetarded in one's determination to pay nothing. Which is why, even though I'm well adept at Linux, there are reasons to pay for a commercial OS and commercial apps. Seashore with a few Gimp plugins would be very nice. But it's not there.
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Right now it's basically something like what Irfanview is for the PC. 'Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer, not an artist!' Er, sorry, I mean my graphic editing needs/skills are rather modest. Haven't tried recent versions of Photoshop Elements.
Back it the day it was capable but ugly and slow, and suffered from excessive copy protection paranoia. These days, I have both and on my Mac, and Pixelmator is flashier, but Acorn is the one I always end up using. They both have trial versions available on their respective websites - you could download both and see which you prefer. I looked at a program called PhotoLine last year, and it seems the closest to a real Photoshop alternative, though I never gave the program much of a workout.
The program is at version 16, and cost $59US - placing it somewhere between PixelMator and Photoshop. It is also amazingly compact - 28.6 MB download for Mac OS. Has anyone had any experience with this program? I'm very surprised I don't hear more about this program, and I wonder why? Here's the link: Yes, abbreviating your URL not a good 'Google' practice, but is that what's keeping them obscure, or is it just poor software? Was called PhotoLine 32, but I see they have dropped the '32' now that we're all '64'-ed.