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[Closed] Super-easy (and cheap) photo-chopping software? (Mac)

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Hello.

I have a bunch of jpegs of notes that I'd like to be able to chop up and recombine in different ways. I don't need to do anything fancy with colours, so something like photoshop might be a bit much.

Ideally I don't want to have to spend much time learning how to do use the software, and last time I tried photoshop (admittedly a long time ago) there was a lot of stuff going on. Also, photoshop is expensive.

Any ideas what I should look at for my Mac? I cannot stress enough that it needs to be really simple and low faff. And cheap.

THanks!

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 7:46 pm
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Pixelmator.

EDIT: Its gone up a bit since I bought it. Now £39 but it is good.

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 7:50 pm
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Thanks. The non-pro version (which I assume would be fine for me) is only £29 but that's still a bit more than I'd ideally like to pay. I wonder if there are any others out there. I really only want to snip some jpegs together.

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 8:17 pm
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Pixemator is very good.

GIMP is OK but last time I used it it had photoshop’s complexity with an ugly UI.

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 8:18 pm
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Can you do this collage-making in Keynote? Or preview might even do enough.

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 8:19 pm
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I’d certainly be looking at keynote first too.

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 8:29 pm
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Seashore might do it?

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 8:42 pm
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Seashore looks like the one - I've just tried it and it took 0 tome to figure out. Thanks everyone, and @oldtennisshoes in particular!

 
Posted : 19/10/2020 9:17 pm
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👍

 
Posted : 20/10/2020 8:02 am
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If all you want to do is arrange photo's then like others have said Keynote or powerpoint. You can export in Jpeg and use the cropping feature. If you want to actually edit and manipulate the photo's then you'd need something a bit more clever. But I've just used Powerpoint when doing this at work when I've needed any posters or banners made up for conferences...just taken a load of pro hi res photo's, created the collage and exported in whatever format the printers needed.

 
Posted : 20/10/2020 8:39 am
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7 day free trial of photoshop?

 
Posted : 20/10/2020 8:54 am
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Affinity photo
I got it half price earlier this year

 
Posted : 20/10/2020 10:00 am

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