Hi,
I specifically switched from pc to mac in order to be able to work with photos... Does iPhoto work somewhat as good as Photoshop? Or is there another software that you might suggest? Photoshop is pretty pricey - I am far from a professional..Really just starting out - know how to do quite a few things in Photoshop... I would appreciate your feedback.
Thanks,
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
It depends on what type of editing you need to do. iPhoto does a pretty good job of the more common edits, cropping, red eye removal and blemish removal.
Photoshop Elements for Mac is an excellent 3rd party editor for Mac and can be used within iPhoto as an the external editor. It has about 70-80% of the capability of Photoshop at about 12% of the price (based on Amazon.com offerings).
Thesen are examples of the advanced editing that can be done with PSE:
Do some testing on test phiotos to see if iPhoto will suit your needs. If not give PSE a try or other 3rd party editors. Go to MacUpdate.com and search for "photo edit" for other potential candidates.
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More of a question here, actually. Old Toad, in the pic where the man was removed from behind the baby carriage, what was the app used to accomplish that? Need that app, member of family needs to delete ex! Or, was he added? That could help put other family into group photo, nobody stays for the final photo ops. Frustrating.
That was done with the PSE clone tool. I selected the man with the Quick Selection Tool and removed him. Then I use the clone tool to select areas of the background that would meld with what I removed. Some photos it's easier depnding on the complexity of the background you're trying to clone.
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