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hello

I was recommended vuescan by someone in this forum and downloaded it off apple's site. the demo works with my scanner, no probs. But because It's a demo it watermarks everthing I scan. Any advice for people who want to buy this (to stop it watermarking stuff, otherwise it's useless) in the UK? it seems to be a US product

cheers
Kaz.

anyone heard about this:?

http://www.pixelmator.com/

it's basically an affordable version of photoshop. Heard about it on macworld magazine web site.

I haven't heard of pixelmator, but that looks interesting and I'll have to give it a try.

As for buying Vuescan, I don't think it matters where you are. Your credit card will automatically convert the US Dollar price to Pounds or Euros or Yen or whatever. I'm not aware of any restrictions on the use of credit cards on international web sites. Even better, because the dollar is so weak right now, it's like you're getting a discount price.

But if you're having trouble filling in their web form because it doesn't accept non-US addresses, try writing to the company. I'm sure they have alternate payment methods.

Oh right, cheers d'E. I didn't realise. I've only ever used paypal for overseas payment over the internet before. Thanks very much. That'll be another thing I've got sorted then!

One thing I was surprised apple hadn't thought of yet would be building in scanning software to iPhoto. That would be really handy, especially if you had old prints that you didn't have the negs to and wanted to digitise them or whatever- you could scan them in and they'd go straight into your iphoto library. That'd be good, but then they are already endorsing vuescan so maybe unnecessary. if it ain't broke, don't fix it I guess.

You're right the pixelmator thing looks good. I think macworld were dubbing it as the poor man's photoshop. Great as it makes things so much easier for people who aren't pros but still into photography.

Kaz, if you just want to do photo manipulation (i.e. RGB) without needing CMYK manipulation for high-end printing, then give this a try:

http://www.plasticbugs.com/blogimg/GIMPshop-OSX-version2b.dmg.tbz

(40MB Download! Requires this to be installed first: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/x11formacosx.html)

It's called "GIMPShop", and it's the Open Source graphics package "The GIMP" recompiled with a clone of Photoshop's front-end, so you can follow Photoshop tutorials in it. It's very good, and it's free.