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Teasswill Started conversation Aug 26, 2007
Can anyone recommend some free, easy to use, basic photo editing software?
I'm not into clever graphics (yet), but I'd like to try tweaking some photos e.g. eliminating objects, cut & pasting - just a little more than I can do just with iphoto. Any ideas?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 26, 2007
I've heard good things about Photoshop Elements:
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshopelmac/
Unfortunately the site's playing up at the moment, so I can't get a UK price.
If you go through the Adobe.com US site it costs $80, so assume about �40. It's got all the features of Photoshop (A �300 application) that are relevant to digital photography.
If you're feeling brave, have a play with "Gimp for Mac" first...
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
It's a bit more daunting, but the features are almost on a par with the "full" version of Photoshop, and it's free! 
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Teasswill Posted Aug 26, 2007
It looks daunting even to install!
I know my son uses it, so I can ask his help. I was wondering if there was anything even more basic!
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 26, 2007
Trust me, Teaswill, it's far easier to use than to install on the Mac. - that's just a quirk of how the Mac. works... Get your son to install it and I think you'll find it does everything you need.
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Aug 26, 2007
Try Graphic Converter - free to try and when the 10 second countdown in the splash screen changes to thirty just throw away the preference files in Library and it goes back to 10.
http://www.lemkesoft.com/
turvy
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Kaz Posted Oct 28, 2007
I think you can download a free 30 day trial of Adobe Photoshop CS2 for mac off adobe's website
www.adobe.com
...if I remember rightly.
btw, is the gimp site the same one that does gimp print drivers? I'm trying to find some drivers for mac that will work with an all in one printer and was told that gimp print and gutenprint will work with it.
ta.
Kaz.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 28, 2007
Sorry, I don't know anything about Mac printer drivers. I assume "Gimp Print" is something Mac-specific, as I've never heard of The Gimp needing any special drivers on Windows or Linux. 
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 28, 2007
It's the new name for CUPS
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 28, 2007
Ah. OK. 
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 28, 2007
Yeah, apparently it's been absorbed into the GIMP project/taken over by the GIMP team, hence the name change.
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Oct 28, 2007
I think it's the other way around actually, gimp-print began life as the printing architecture for the GIMP, then was extended to be a general print driver that works under CUPS. Gimp-print has now been renamed Gutenprint, and is not the same thing as CUPS. CUPS is now included in Mac OS X, and maybe Gutenprint/Gimp-print too. 
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Kaz Posted Oct 30, 2007
Sounds confusing.
Been searching the forums on printer details to try and see if I could use the printer if I upgraded to Leopard.
Theoretically the technology would be better so hopefully drivers might be included
I'm just hoping I can use my original ilife suite ok if I upgrade. Can't afford both at the mo.
www.adobe.com
hopefully that link will work now.
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- 1: Teasswill (Aug 26, 2007)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Aug 26, 2007)
- 3: Teasswill (Aug 26, 2007)
- 4: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Aug 26, 2007)
- 5: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Aug 26, 2007)
- 6: Kaz (Oct 28, 2007)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 28, 2007)
- 8: T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. (Oct 28, 2007)
- 9: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 28, 2007)
- 10: T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. (Oct 28, 2007)
- 11: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Oct 28, 2007)
- 12: Kaz (Oct 30, 2007)
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