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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.

In article <4593e05e$>, 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.

In article <4593e05e$>, 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.

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Thanks Scott, that looks ok for me, All the Best to you and everyone for
the New Year.
"Scott Schuckert" <> wrote in message
news:281220061109150526%...
> In article <4593e05e$>, 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.

In article <4593e05e$>,
"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.