Photoshop on all Macs

i was just scrolling around & out of nowhere the question of photoshop popped into my mind. Because i have always thought Photoshop is pre installed in all Macs. I have a feeling im making a very big mistake. Am i?

What programs do most of you guys use for advanced editing?
becasue CS2/ CS3 from the apple store costs a bomb & I was wondering what are you guys' thoughts.

thanks.

I use Gimp. It does most of what photo shop will do, and its free. check it out.

Photoshop installed on all Macs? That would increase the cost by at least $600 US per unit!

Gimp is a free alternative like TWM says. I use Photoshop and the Adobe CS2 suite apps, Quark and Dreamweaver. But then again, I'm going to work in the desktop publishing field.

Gimp is great for what it is, especially since it's free. But for the true professional, You have to go with photoshop.

MHC,in more detail, what is desktop publishing?

Thanks.

Desktop publishing is for all the printed material you see: newspapers, magazines, posters, flyers, catalogues, CD sleeves (right word?), software boxes, etc.

for most users, you can probably get away with gimp or photoshop elements. PE is a pretty decent program and has most of the commonly used functions.

I got a student version of CS3 (Web Premium); was about £215 ($430). Still a bit, but considering it's about £1,100 standard, it seemed like an OK deal.

I also picked up the Web Premium version of the Creative Series with the purchase of my new mac and also got the student discount. I only paid $300 for it. I cant believe how much discount they give you for being a student and buying a new mac at the same time. It was awesome.

But yeah if you really cant afford Photoshop then your best bet is gimp.

MacHeadCase said:

Desktop publishing is for all the printed material you see: newspapers, magazines, posters, flyers, catalogues, CD sleeves (right word?), software boxes, etc.

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Sounds like its going to be a cool job. what is your major???

Well I am not in a US college or Uni.

And it is what they call in the Department/Ministry of Education a professional diploma: you study only the classes that give you the diploma i.e. no extra-curricular like French class, no Philosophy class, etc. Besides at my age, I've done all those already anyway. LOL

So I am learning beginners to advanced levels: Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, a bit of DreamWeaver for website building, the printing process, stuff like that.

Wow, that sounds like fun. good luck with that!

Thank you very much, TWM! Very kind of you!

BTW, are you going to be in IRC tonight? 8:00 PM EST

The app to use and how to set the program info is here.

Hope to see you there! IRC is a lot of fun!

What can you do in IRC? it seems cool, But i'm not quite getting it...lol.

It's the weekly Mac-Forums chatroom get-together! We were nearly 20 last Sunday!

Oh Sounds good. if i am home, i will log in for sure!

Kewl!

Sorry for taking this off topic, everyone!

I use Photoshop CS3 all the time for my editing, i got a really good deal through my college store on Design Premium.

I personally use gimp, but there's a few thing that confuses me, i've used CS3 before on windows, the demo when it came out, and heard people cracked and made it official, it was only 50MB big! How can something 50MB big sell a couple of hundred dollars haha... >.< When i bought it at the store the guy introduced to me like 1000 bucks of softwares and when i said no he looked so disappointed XD