BoDEAN Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Looking for a good photo edditing app for my Mac Air. Any recommendations to good photo software where I can make banners for webpages? I know Adobe Photoshop CS2 is now free from Adobe. Is this my best option? Or does mac offer other software (since I know mac os is well known for graphic designers, etc) Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REM2000 Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Pixelmator is a good app, pretty cheap and uses the Mac's GPU etc.. to speed up things. I use it a bit and its good. Growled 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 or you might be able to use the adobe cloud apps like photoshop. I pay $20 a month for photoshop. I love it and saves me from having to try and save up an exorbitant amount of cash to purchase a DVD but, now Adobe has stated they are no longer going to sell DVD media versions and going straight to the cloud Shadrack 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stetson Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Take a look at Pixelmator and Acorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Pixelmator is the best, but it has its major annoyance, like a cluttered, pure black interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 If you're running 10.7 or higher then CS2 is out as it's PowerPC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted May 27, 2013 Member Share Posted May 27, 2013 I quite like Pixelmator myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted May 27, 2013 MVC Share Posted May 27, 2013 Pixelmator and Acorn are both fine, except I find Pixelmator extremely hard to look at (black UI). I use Photoshop CS6 myself, which is very well priced with their Cloud offerings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEndAccount Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Personally, unless you really need those high end Photoshop features, the best option is Pixelmator - it is modestly priced, heavily Mac integrated and takes advantage of the built in hardware acceleration which OS X provides and most importantly it doesn't take up a heap of space or use a heap of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 except I find Pixelmator extremely hard to look at (black UI). Ah finally, I am not the only one. I have reported it a countless number of times and they won't ever fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Personally, unless you really need those high end Photoshop features, the best option is Pixelmator - it is modestly priced, heavily Mac integrated and takes advantage of the built in hardware acceleration which OS X provides and most importantly it doesn't take up a heap of space or use a heap of memory. Does it work with Nikon or Canon Raw files? that's why PS is so big with photographers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted May 28, 2013 MVC Share Posted May 28, 2013 Ah finally, I am not the only one. I have reported it a countless number of times and they won't ever fix it. I've sent them feedback on it as well; looks like it's not going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEndAccount Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Does it work with Nikon or Canon Raw files? that's why PS is so big with photographers. No I don't but it appears that you don't actually read what I wrote because this is what I said at the end of the sentence that you ignored: .....unless you really need those high end Photoshop features.... Raw files is a high end feature and if you need that high end feature then Photoshop makes perfect sense. Again, read the WHOLE post and don't come to a conclusion based on a hasty scanning and making an assumption based on what you've quickly scanned over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 GIMP is now a Native App on OS X and also FREE, It is as powerfull as Photoshop, although Im not a fan of its Menu organization, but thats just me :) www.gimp.org GIMP for Mac OS X Since the 2.8.2 version GIMP runs on OSX natively. No X11 environment is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galina Di Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Hi guys, I'm Galina, developer from Macphun. I don't want to go against the rules of this forum, so I'm not offering you to buy anything. But since it's the talk about photography apps, and we develop them, I can't stop by and mention that you may check the free trial version of our FX Photo Studio (and FX Photo Studio Pro) app on CNET and Snapheal on our web-site. The first app is for photo effects junkies, and the second one helps to fix imperfections. Hope you might try them out when you have time. :) .Neo 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 I've sent them feedback on it as well; looks like it's not going to happen. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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