There 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

There 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