Mac equivalent of Photoshop?
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Actually, Photoshop started out as a Mac application back in the OS9 days, before it was ever brought to Windows.
This has ended up being a bit of a problem, really.....their code is all based around the Carbon API, which is being superceded by Cocoa. What this effectively means is that we may not be seeing Photoshop available for 64-bit Macs for a while yet while they rework things a bit.
This has ended up being a bit of a problem, really.....their code is all based around the Carbon API, which is being superceded by Cocoa. What this effectively means is that we may not be seeing Photoshop available for 64-bit Macs for a while yet while they rework things a bit.
All levels of Photoshop are available for the Mac, from sub $100 Elements (which is all most people need) to the full blown Creative Suite.
also available - MS Office, Firefox, Solitaire and Minefield.
you can also instal Windows and run your old photoshop if you wish.
also available - MS Office, Firefox, Solitaire and Minefield.
you can also instal Windows and run your old photoshop if you wish.
The last time I did anything with a Mac, I was using ClarisWorks.
Me, too. Getting used to my Macbook took a little time.
NeoOffice is free and works just as good, if not better, than MS Office. It can save files in multiple formats. I love it. Right now, I'm trying to find a decent replacement for Quicken, which I used on the PC.
And, of course, there's always the GIMP for OS X
Not quite PS, but it'll do the most pedestrian tasks and is FREE.
Not quite PS, but it'll do the most pedestrian tasks and is FREE.
I do know that Quicken is available for Mac; however, it sucks. I'm using Quicken 2003(?) and even though it states files can be exported, it won't do it. While perusing the Internet for support and/or answers, I've come to learn that this is very common with products from Intuit and that customer service is non-existent. So, I'd rather get something more stable and reliable.
I'm fairly sure OpenOffice.org 3.0 performs better, but without a mac to actually try this out myself I can only say what I read about... perhaps I should just get out of this thread before someone posts one of those awfull mac/pc ads.
Ahem..... would you believe it was actually System SIX, not nine??
History of Photoshop
I was using it under 7 and 8....
Photoshop was invented for the Mac in the first place.
If you ever want to know this sort of thing all you need do is a google search dar
If you ever want to know this sort of thing all you need do is a google search dar
Yep NeoOffice is fairly old and iirc was a fork from OpenOffice at a time when there wasn't a full port for OS X. Since then Open Office has been fully ported to Mac and runs very well.
Or perhaps even windows for mac -- nah, I'm just being crazy here fersure.Wait a minute... there is a version of Photoshop for Windows? When did they port Photoshop to Windows?
The computing world move so fast these days. I bet they'll have a Windows version of Excel soon too.
And Apple sold systems that could run PC operating systems (like Windows/DOS) on them the beginning of 1994 (Macintosh Quadra 610 DOS Compatible, followed by the Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible and Power Macintosh 7300/180 PC Compatible).Or perhaps even windows for mac -- nah, I'm just being crazy here fersure.Wait a minute... there is a version of Photoshop for Windows? When did they port Photoshop to Windows?
The computing world move so fast these days. I bet they'll have a Windows version of Excel soon too.
^Shirley that's SciFi!
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