- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
I've been trying to find a suitable alternative to Photoshop. I'm never going to subscribe, and the time is getting close when Photoshop CS5.1 will stop functioning properly. So instead of looking to Lightroom, which I still havent adapted to, I decided to stick with a combination of iPhoto and an external editor.. the one I settled on for now is Acorn. It has much of photoshops function (only in slightly different locations) and I'm finding that its actually pretty decent to use. I havent been able to like Pixelmator which I also own.
I dont often use filters any more (like the Nik and Topaz stuff) and prefer just to use the built in sliders for levels, curves, contrast, brightness, gamma etc. There are a bunch of built in filters too (more than in photoshop, it seems to me) and they are all pretty good if you want that. The only one I use is sharpening, and thats a very flexible filter which I like better than the one in PS/CS
Anyway, just thought I'd give a headsup to any other OSX users who might be considering moving to something else.
Here's something:
Only levels, contrast and sharpening used.
Here's the original
View attachment 102282
Its an FZ100 shot, btw. Would have been better with my other cams, but OK here.
Links : Acorn | Pixelmator
I dont often use filters any more (like the Nik and Topaz stuff) and prefer just to use the built in sliders for levels, curves, contrast, brightness, gamma etc. There are a bunch of built in filters too (more than in photoshop, it seems to me) and they are all pretty good if you want that. The only one I use is sharpening, and thats a very flexible filter which I like better than the one in PS/CS
Anyway, just thought I'd give a headsup to any other OSX users who might be considering moving to something else.
Here's something:
Only levels, contrast and sharpening used.
Here's the original
View attachment 102282
Its an FZ100 shot, btw. Would have been better with my other cams, but OK here.
Links : Acorn | Pixelmator