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Is there an alternative (on OSX) for this application (designing website/app layouts) to Photoshop? I've used Gimp in the past but they seem like completely di
by jasongullickson 17y ago
Is there an alternative (on OSX) for this application (designing website/app layouts) to Photoshop? I've used Gimp in the past but they seem like completely different animals and the tutorials for Photoshop were all but useless.
I have a hard time swallowing the price of Photoshop for such a limited application, when I'd probably be using less than 25% of what it does...
- swombat 17y agoI have yet to find a comparable alternative to Photoshop. There are many attempts at duplicating it, but none of them are nearly as powerful as Photoshop. I believe there are some "lite" versions of photoshop out there for cheaper prices, though...
- plaes 17y agoGimp?
- turtle4 17y agoThere are viable options for a subset of photoshop's functionality. As you note, you can get 80% of the functionality for a huge difference in price, which is fine if you don't need that last 20% for whatever reason. You can try pixelmator(1) (mac only) or pixel(2) (cross platform). 1) http://www.pixelmator.com/ http://www.pixelmator.com/ 2) http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12 http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12
- AGTS 17y agoTake a look at Acorn (http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/ http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/) by Flying Meat. It lacks some of the more esoteric PS/Gimp features, but overall is substantially easier to use and has all your critical features (layers, filters, color adjustment, etc.). Oh, yeah, and it's cheap, too (free demo, $50 to buy)...
- GHFigs 17y agoFor designing the layout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_paper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_paper For working with images: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/