Apart from Apple's own software are any others available to work on me MAC. Apples own is £150 so I'm looking for something cheaper.

Photoshop comes in a Mac version too.

Depends how much you want to play with the pics as iPhoto can do basic tweaking etc.

But as said Photoshop is available for OS X but is a lot more expensive and doesn't offer a great advantage over Aperture 3 ( I have both btw)

Aperture 3 is £169

Photoshop CS4 is £629 - which I have

Photoshop CS5 is £649

Photoshop Elements 8 is £75.95 ( never used this though so not sure what features it has/hasn't )

Carl

£600+ OMG!! I didn't realise they were that expensive, never had to buy software in the past so this is shock. Mac's Aperture 3 seems a bargain now. I'll go to a Apple shop and see if it does what I need.

You can watch a Demo etc of it on the apple website here

Aperture 3

You can even download a free trial

Apart from Apple's own software are any others available to work on me MAC. Apples own is £150 so I'm looking for something cheaper.

You tried GIMP? It's X11, but is available for the MAC, price? £0.00 so maybe worth trying

You can get Photoshop CS4 for around £150 if you are (or 'know') a student. It requires proof of studentship to get the code though, so you really will need to be/know one.

You can get Photoshop CS4 for around £150 if you are (or 'know') a student. It requires proof of studentship to get the code though, so you really will need to be/know one.

My kid is at Uni so no problem, got me Mac with a big discount already.

Good idea for Ap 3 on free trial as well just spotted that on Apple.com

GiMP? I'll search that out.

Pixelmator is a good Photoshop clone. £43.

Edited 30 May, 201016 yr by dxg

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

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GIMP!

not you the software:

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

HTH

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Do you use this, will harm me Mac and do Apple approve off this software.?

Gimp has ben there in a mac version since 2001 (those early gimp versions were horrible to work with, though). Don't have a mac myself, but even if Apple is very proprietary about their products I very much doubt that Gimp could harm your OS or computer. I've used Gimp for years on Windows and Linux PCs and it has never caused me any problems. Go for it. Or, if you want something lighter, there's Seashore, developed for mac (no personal experience of that either): http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php

EDIT: Maybe some useful info here: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/photoshop_too_pricey_save_gimp

Edited 1 June, 201016 yr by swedishskoda

Do you use this, will harm me Mac and do Apple approve off this software.?

I've used it on Windows and Linux for many years and no, I really don't seeing it damaging your Mac.

Do Apple approve of it, well you have not paid the AppleTaxâ„¢ so they are unlikely to do so. Doesn't mean it's bad, far from it.