On 25 Apr 2010, at 18:23:07, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > 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.
I need CYMK. > > 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. Even the Education version costs $900 for the full package. This is a non-trivial price, and would be the difference between my getting an iMac and my getting a Mac Pro. > > > 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
