Depending on your Photoshop requirements…the much cheaper (less than $100) Photoshop Elements may do all you need. It doesn't do CMYK, just RGB, doesn't do Actions, and obviously doesn't have all the neato new stuff like Content Aware Fill that CS5 has (although I would not be surprised to see a lot of the CS5 features in the next Elements.
For other low end image editors…there are a bunch of good ones. Pixelmator and Acorn to name a couple. For drawing…EasyDraw or VectorDesigner are decent although they're much farther from being Illustrator than the difference between PS and Elements is. Dreamweaver…again, depends on what you need. RapidWeaver is pretty good but again has fewer features than DW. I've used both RW and iWeb for my web needs but they're pretty minor. I'm sure there are other lower end packages as well…but those are the ones I'm familiar with. I understand that Adobe has to make a buck…but at the prices their stuff costs now it's pretty much out of reach for anybody who isn't a professional and even then depending on your annual billing could easily be an appreciable bill. On Apr 25, 2010, at 4:38 PM, James O'Shea wrote: > I currently have Adobe CS2 running on my main personal system (2.66 GHz Core > 2 Duo 20" iMac, Snow Leopard) and have been running into more and more > problems with it. Adobe CS5 is out now, but there doesn't seem to be an > upgrade path from CS2 or at least not one that I can find. (If there is one, > could someone let me know how to get it?) There is absolutely no way that I'm > ever going to pay full price for CS5. Does anyone know of any _reasonably > priced_ apps which could replace Photoshop and which will run acceptably on a > 2.66 GHz iMac? I'm due to replace the iMac later this year, possibly with a > Power Mac, possibly with a 27" iMac, so something that required better > hardware than the iMac might also be acceptable. > > I'm also looking to junk Dreamweaver and Illustrator, and would need > replacements for them, too. And, while we're at it, Acrobat probably should > go as well. InDesign, that I'm probably stuck with for the foreseeable future. > ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
