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very very simple photo editing program?

slipper

slipper

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guys please help me, my girlfriend really wants to convert to Macs however she likes doing her girly digital artwork. you know, that precious moments and hello kitty crap. is there something very simple, something that even a 10 year old kid can use with premade templates and scenes
 
People who read your post too quickly are going to think you have a ten-year-old girlfriend. :eek:

If she wants to convert to Mac, three cheers for her. And you should give her a little slack about her choice of art. Hello Kitty drawings today, power user of Tiger tomorrow.

Are you looking for inexpensive software, or must it be free?
 
something inexpensive or free would be good. she uses Microsoft PhotoIt! on her PC a lot.
 
To be honest, iPhoto is good for simple editing such as cropping, rotating, red eye reduction, brightness/contrast, touching up, etc. This comes free with all Macs.

For a better paint program, you get Graphics Converter free with all PowerBooks and Power Macs. I don't tend to use that because I have Photoshop Elements 2.0, which is very good, but possibly overkill. (I got it for £50 ($80) and it includes both Mac and PC versions, and 3 home licences). However, this program is a cut-down version of Photoshop, but is also easy to use and has a lot of quick filters for adjusting photos.

iMacs, eMac and iBooks come with a paint program as part of AppleWorks but I'm not sure how good that is for photo stuff - probably only comparable to MSPaint on Windows.
 
id agree photoshop is great, afterall i swear by it and ive had every version since 5 or 6 but she wants something very simple with templates where you can just add a picture and be on your way.
 
slipper said:
something inexpensive or free would be good. she uses Microsoft PhotoIt! on her PC a lot.
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iPhoto should be fine.

Photoshop Elements is quite powerful for the price (under $100). It's easy to use, but not trivially easy to use. Graphics Converter is also good, but iPhoto or Photoshop would probably be better for her needs.

The GIMP is fantastic, but you'd need to build it on your Mac, and it might be a bit techy for her.

Assuming you have a Mac, or have access to one, why don't you let her try iPhoto? It's already there, and, if it's sufficient, your problem is solved.
 
slipper said:
guys please help me, my girlfriend really wants to convert to Macs however she likes doing her girly digital artwork. you know, that precious moments and hello kitty crap. is there something very simple, something that even a 10 year old kid can use with premade templates and scenes
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iPhoto
GraphicConverter
Photoshop Elements
 
actually, the gimp is really easy to install (and uninstall!) now. i found this over the weekend and spent all night deleting the old MacGIMP install i had. there's no documentation for uninstalling MacGIMP. but Gimp.app acts just like a regular mac app; just throw away the whole app to uninstall.

http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/
 
I don't think any of these programs address what slipper wants to do. I've been using photostudio x (.mac download) and it works fine, but it doesn't have the 'framing'/'template' feature he mentions.

This is generally more of a 'Greeting Card Maker' type of feature. Take heart, slipper, Macs have had this type of capability longer than PCs have (why, the venerable Mac II had true color), so the ability to deal with photos is in most applications. Print Master and its variations can use photos, for example.
 
erm. just to save making another thread.

what is the easiest way to resize a photo?
i know that iphoto can do cropping.etc. but if i just want to make a photo a bit smaller so that i can upload it to a website (like fotki) without waiting an age for the photo to upload?

ta

:confused:
 
Just export it (under File) from iPhoto and it will allow you to resize it (without cropping) adn save it to a location of your choice. Ready ot upoad.
 
kgarner said:
Just export it (under File) from iPhoto and it will allow you to resize it (without cropping) adn save it to a location of your choice. Ready ot upoad.
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cheers. just what i wanted!
 
Picture editing

Well, I'm actually looking for a software for editing pictures or parts of it. My friend has been using Publish it on a PC and I'm looking for something similar.....On Publish it, you can cut out parts of the picture, easily change color of parts of the picture, add in text, drag and drop part of pictures, text and so on to build your on poster, flyer or picture....
 
Adobe used to sell a program called PhotoDeluxe (Classic only, I'd assume) that would probably fit the bill perfectly. It's kind of like an assisted version of Photoshop Elements with walk-through effects templates.

You can probably find a copy out there for next to nothing, it used to be bundled with cameras and scanners and stuff.

[Edit: Just found a copy and tried it under Panther; runs fine under Classic.]
 
slipper said:
guys please help me, my girlfriend really wants to convert to Macs however she likes doing her girly digital artwork. you know, that precious moments and hello kitty crap. is there something very simple, something that even a 10 year old kid can use with premade templates and scenes
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It is a Mac. You don't have to do everything in a single application. At any rate, GraphicConverter is an excellent shareware application for image editing and file conversion. Before you pay the shareware fee, it nags you just a bit. However, the application is not crippled. Your ten-year old girlfriend can import her edited photos into Print Shop or another of the publishing apps targeted at the home market. If she uses an app like Print Shop, iPhoto will probably do all of the photo manipulation that she needs.
 
GraphicConverter is a useful application, but I'd hardly call it "very very simple," which was the criterion after all. I've been using it on and off for years, and I still don't feel very proficient with it.

Also, check out ToyViewer.
 
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