Can someone recommend me something like Photoshop (or Photoshop!)

[nantucket66]

At work (on a windows machine) I use photoshop on a daily basis.

Not an expert by any stretch, I probably only use a tiny fraction of what it is capable of but I can do what do as it were. I basically take a photograph of a product (hi-res taken from supplier image library), scale it down (typically 500px sq), add some decent looking text, opaque the image, and upload to a website, nothing flash and not editing images in the typical sense.

At home I've a MBP, I need a program that can do the same stuff on a mac. Is photoshop the best way forward, are there any alternatives people would recommend over and above PS, any decent free software out there?

Cheers

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[Feek]

There's always Photoshop Elements, that's a much cheaper option which will give you a very familiar interface and allow you to do much that you can do in the full version.

 

[Skyboat]

Pixelmator?

 

[AbsenceJam]

Pixelmator is very good, hear good stuff about Acorn as well. Both are aimed at PS users.