Mac Photo Editing software?

**CantDog** · 01-04-2007, 10:22 AM

I'm looking for a mac photo editing/drawing software that is free, preferably.

I've taken a bunch of photos and want to add measurements/lines designating where things are going to be when I remake whats in the picture. I'm not looking for anything fancy, just a program that I can add numbers, lines, colored boxes, curved lines to an jpg/bit photo.

Recommendations? Is there something that already comes with the mac that lets me do this? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff.

**KnuckleDragger** · 01-04-2007, 10:27 AM

GIMP is a free open source PhotoShop like program. Works on mac and PC.

http://www.gimp.org

**goofygrin** · 01-04-2007, 10:35 AM

and it's learning curve is uber steep (gimp).

I can't believe that the fruit doesn't give you a program for free that allows you to do that given how much more artsy fartsy they are than PeeCees...

**bio-smear** · 01-04-2007, 11:31 AM

Maybe Inkscape? It's actually a pretty good open source Illustrator. It requires that you have X11 installed though, which is easy enough to install from the CD that came with your Mac or as a download from Apple.

**tuffy109** · 01-04-2007, 11:37 AM

there's a free trial version of Aperture up on apple.com right now. download it, try it out and buy/steal from somewhere if you like it.

**CantDog** · 01-04-2007, 01:02 PM

I'll give GIMP a try. Unfortunately aperture needs 1 gig of RAM, and I only have 512.

**bio-smear** · 01-04-2007, 01:06 PM

Inkscape is perfect for that. You can import a bitmap (jpg,png,gif,whatever) in and size it, then make all sorts of vector boxes or lines or text on top of it. It will print nicely because it's vector/postcript output. Or you can export it to a bitmap.

GIMP is good, but it's more analogous to Photoshop, as Inkscape is to Illustrator.