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    What image editor/creator do you use on a Mac? (I'm thinking of something like a mac version of Paint.Net)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Captain Fail, Feb 11, 2009.

  1. Captain Fail

    Captain Fail Notebook Evangelist

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    As some of you know i'm getting very close to placing an order for a macbook pro *excited*

    I have firefox for my browsing needs, MS Office for Mac 2008 for my office software, iTunes and Quicktime as my media player (they will play everything won't they?), and now i'm looking for a replacement for paint.net.

    I don't need all the features of photoshop, although I gather many many mac users just opt for pirating it :D

    Gimp isn't properly "native" and I hate the gimp tbf. Gimpshop is the same. Seahorse hasn't been updated for 2 years.......

    I'm at a loss. What do I do for a paint.net equivilent on a mac? What if I buy photoshop elements? Is that just for photo's, or can I make avatars on it too etc...?

    How do you cope? What do you use? Do you just pirate photoshop?
     
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  2. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Uhh, don't pirate photoshop, you will get a trojan. I use Gimp, but I really don't know any other good alternatives besides Photoshop itself. I think elements is photos only, but not really sure. I have a really old Windows copy of elements 5.0, and that thing is lacking.
     
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  3. chyidean

    chyidean Notebook Evangelist

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    That's pretty ironic.
     
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    I thought the only "virus" lingering about via torrenting was through pirating iworks or something like that?
     
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  5. HLdan

    HLdan Notebook Virtuoso

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    Apple has a built in image editor. "Preview" is the image editor. You can change color, size, crop, remove backgrounds and annotate. Works very well. Check out the attached features.
     

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  6. Colton

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    With Photoshop CS4, there are most likely going to be trojans in that too, because the demand to torrent it is very high, and a prime target.
     
    Colton, Feb 12, 2009
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    I think there's more to Paint.NET than what Preview can do and I really wish there was a free image editor with a small learning curve like Paint.NET.
     
    Black_Hawk, Feb 12, 2009
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    For image editiging, such as cropping and stuff, preview does that fine. If you actually want to paint, like paint does, youll have to look for third party programs to do that.

    But if you just want to crop pictures and stuff, preview does a good job with that.
     
    sulkorp, Feb 13, 2009
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