Living the Low End: Introductions, and photo editing.
I recently acquired a Power Mac G4 and I’m very pleased with it. I can do the basics like surfing the ‘net, but I can also use the iLife suite at acceptable speed. So what am I getting at? I am a striving web designer and and trying my hand at the creative arts and I’m a full time student, if I can get all this done on a Power Mac G4 then I think a lot of people looking to buy a new computer would be very happy with an old mac.
Well enough of the Bio, lets get into the meat of the editorial, The deal is, I’m going to try to pump out articles as often as I can and the basis of them is, getting things done on older macs. This week I’m going to go over a decent Photo Shop alternative.
I have been playing with a free program called Seashore for the mac. It seems faster and more elegant than Gimp, while it retains it’s powerful features. Some actions tend be slow on my Power Mac G4 like applying gradients takes a few seconds. But Seashore provides basic image editing in a simple clean interface for the best price in the world. Next week I’m going talk about working with NVU in OS X.
