good photo editing app for my macbook pro?

Question

i need a good (free) photo editing app for my laptop. my computer won't let me make a copy of a picture and make one black and white version and one color version and i need to make several copies, but i can't. and I'm not cheap and can't pay for an app, i just don't have a credit card to link to my iTunes account. so please help me!

Answer 1

Hey Kenzie, there is a site that I know about that does daily codes. The site is itunesgiftcard.blogspot.com

Answer 2

You should get the Macbook Pro because you can do all of the things you want to do with it and I have not had problems with mine. If it were to ever break down you have Apple is always helpful about those things and fast. Alienware is more of an advance gamers computer where as averything you are wanting to do with the computer works on the Mac. Also Mac is easier to use and a lot simpler in its interface. Overall I would choose the Macbook Pro.

Answer 3

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.



It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.



GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.



GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.



Features and Capabilities



This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.



Painting



Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.

Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing

Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool

Supports custom brushes and patterns



System



Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space

Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time



Advanced Manipulation



Full alpha channel support

Layers and channels

Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)

Editable text layers

Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip

Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy

Foreground extraction tool

Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.

Transformable paths, transformable selections.

Quickmask to paint a selection.



Extensible



A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu

Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)

Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

Over 100 plug-ins already available

Animation

Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format

MNG support

Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)



File Handling



File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others

Load, display, convert, save to many file formats

SVG path import/export



Much, much more!