Equivalent For Photoshop For Mac? (free)


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Hi all,

I use Photoshop for work, but unfortunately they cannot get me a license at the moment (I'm only there for another month and a half so not much point really).

At any rate, I don't use many of the 'advanced features' of Photoshop anyway... however I do find the cropping/cutting of images really good.

Is there an equivalent piece of software I can use for Mac that can...

1. Select parts of an image at a specific ratio (i.e. when you shrink an image down, it would definitely be at 160x120px or something like that).

2. Shrink images down to a specific size (e.g. 160x120px).

I've looked at GIMP, but not sure if it can do that yet. Any other recommendations?

Cheers!

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Ah, it looks like I should give GIMP more of a chance and explore it more, I'll have a play with it tonight.

I'll also have a look at the other suggestions, thanks for that everyone.

While I certainly don't mind paying for software, the mixture of only needing simple resizing features and being short of money would rather me use free alternatives.

Cheers!

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Pixelmator is a fantastic application, i know its $59 but it is worth it,

My first start with image editing software was JASC Paint Shop Pro, which i still use PaintShop Pro Photo Ultimate on Windows,

i have used Photoshop through the years only every once in a while when i can 'cough' find a copy 'cough' and i have never really liked the true "PRO" apps, their interfaces, to me anyway seem far to overwhelming and unnecessary

anyway Pixelmator also use the power of the GPU

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Definately Pixelmator, it's plain awesome and there's this Spider update coming very soon :)

For $59, it's the closest app to Photoshop I've ever seen in my life, for like not even 10% of the price. It's native, it makes great use of Leopard's technologies, there are a couple of things better than Photoshop, etc. and each update brings a lot of stuff and is free :)

Asking for a "free" Photoshop-equivalent is pretty extreme IMO. I'm not saying Photoshop is really worth like $1000, but asking for a free app that does as much is a little exagerate!

I'm pretty sure Preview can do the cropping for you though !

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No free application will come close to matching Photoshop's feature set, although Pixelmator has most of the most popular and necessary tools.

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I probably could have worded the question slightly better... I know you wouldn't get an 'equivalent' of Photoshop... but what I mean't was something that was "in that direction" and can do most of the basic stuff PS can.

Tried out GIMP and can use that to cut and crop, going to try pixelmator though too.

a1ien - I did think of using a trial... but what after that 30 day trial :p haha

If worst comes to the worst, I will just download and use the trial, but wanted to try a few other options first.

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Even Apple's own Preview app included with OSX has good editing functions. The attached was made up exclusively in Preview, no Photoshop involved. :p

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