I'm in the market for an alternative to Photoshop for my G5 tower. I tried GIMP and I'm a bit blah about it; are there any other options that you can recommend?
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Due to the expense of Photoshop, I bought Pixelmator a year or so ago. I only do photo-editing with it, so I can't comment on using it for design, but it has been powerful enough for me.
I'm not sure if Pixelmator can run on pre-Intel macs, though.
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While otherwise an alternative, Pixelmator requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (or later) which doesn't run on pre-Intel (PowerPC) Macs. Commented Jan 7, 2011 at 23:42
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Huh. I bought it when the latest version was 10.4. I guess they don't offer old versions, though. Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 0:25
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Definitely considering this one for my laptop, but yeah, not G5 compatible at the present time unfortunately.– KajiCommented Jan 11, 2011 at 23:43
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I've been eying Pixelmator. Seems to be a great value. How's it handling Photoshop layers?– DA01Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 4:48
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If you mean importing from Photoshop, I have no idea. I've never tried to import a Photoshop file. Sorry. Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 16:07
What about an older version of Photoshop? I think CS2 was the last which supported G5s.
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I've got CS2 on there right now, but unfortunately the license recently decided it expired and my brother has long-since misplaced the registration info for it. If you know a good place to pick up a copy on the cheap, though, I'm all ears!– KajiCommented Jan 11, 2011 at 23:44
Depends for what Photoshop functionality you need.
For simple tasks, maybe Aviary Phoenix could do the job.
In the same area: Pixlr
and Adobe Photoshop Express Editor
answered Jan 8, 2011 at 13:38
Check out Alternativeto.net for a list, among them are pixelmator, gimp, pixel, and others.
answered Jan 7, 2011 at 22:48
