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Best Software for my I-mac
Father Christmas brought me an i-mac, any suggestions on the best, reasonbly
priced photo software for a keen amateur, any body using Aperture?? Thanks for any suggestions. |
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Best Software for my I-mac
In article , Tony Ridgway
wrote: Father Christmas brought me an i-mac, any suggestions on the best, reasonbly priced photo software for a keen amateur, any body using Aperture?? Right out of the gate I'd suggest a copy of GraphicConverter. (http://www.lemkesoft.com/) It's shareware ($30), has reasonably complete editing, and awesome batch-mode functions. Even if you have more powerful software like PhotoShop, you'll find yourself using it a lot - I do. |
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Best Software for my I-mac
In article , Tony Ridgway
wrote: Father Christmas brought me an i-mac, any suggestions on the best, reasonbly priced photo software for a keen amateur, any body using Aperture?? Yes. Get it. You won't regret it. They have a 30 day free trial, if you're leery of just buying it outright. It will do all your organizational needs (including printing, basic slideshows, and basic web pages), plus all your "whole image" manipulation such as exposure, saturation, white balance, brightness, contrast, etc., etc. You'll still need PS or similar for pushing pixels around, but for the most part, Aperture will do all the major adjustments you need. It will export to PS (or other) and automatically retrieve the saved image after you close it from the editing program. You'll also need more memory than your iMac probably came with - they normally come with 512mb, Aperture requires at least 1gb (unless you get a copy of earlier versions up to 1.1, then there's a patch floating around that allows you to run it on slower machines (867mhz) and smaller memory machines (1gb)). But 1.5(.2) really throws some major additional improvements in file management and editing into the works, and it's dead slow with all the memory swapouts when using less than 1gb of memory, so I'd never recommend someone run the earlier version that way unless they simply had to because of machine constraints. -- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard |
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Best Software for my I-mac
Thanks Scott, that looks ok for me, All the Best to you and everyone for
the New Year. "Scott Schuckert" wrote in message ... In article , Tony Ridgway wrote: Father Christmas brought me an i-mac, any suggestions on the best, reasonbly priced photo software for a keen amateur, any body using Aperture?? Right out of the gate I'd suggest a copy of GraphicConverter. (http://www.lemkesoft.com/) It's shareware ($30), has reasonably complete editing, and awesome batch-mode functions. Even if you have more powerful software like PhotoShop, you'll find yourself using it a lot - I do. |
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Best Software for my I-mac
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"Tony Ridgway" wrote: Father Christmas brought me an i-mac, any suggestions on the best, reasonbly priced photo software for a keen amateur, any body using Aperture?? Thanks for any suggestions. This depends on your needs. Aperture is expensive and unless you're a serious amateur or a pro photographer, its probably overkill. Try iPhoto for starters because its already on your Mac and its very good. |
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