Basically, I'm looking for what the title says. A basic picture editing program, and something that lets me quickly browse/zoom through my photos, as well as slideshow (besides iPhoto).

I just use Preview to view photos, but you have to select all the pictures you want to view before opening it.

As for Paint, the closest thing I've found is PaintBrush.

dunno if it will help but gimp doesa good work when zoomign in out images, or you could use adobe acrobat.

gimp. its actually a lot more like photoshop, but it does all the basics paint does as well. easy to use. and free

quote axforts2212

gimp. its actually a lot more like photoshop, but it does all the basics paint does as well. easy to use. and free

i agree it does what photshop without making your life impossible and its less heavy than photshop, in the sense that it wont usually freeze, and make your mac crash all the way down.

quote Duncan Idaho

quote axforts2212

gimp. its actually a lot more like photoshop, but it does all the basics paint does as well. easy to use. and free

i agree it does what photshop without making your life impossible and its less heavy than photshop, in the sense that it wont usually freeze, and make your mac crash all the way down.

What are you talking about? I have photoshop CS4 for my design work...I find it much more powerful than gimp, but at the same time it doesnt ever freeze, and never crashes my mac.

Gimp is just the best you can get for free, and for 90% of people gimp has enough tools to satisfy even most graphic designers.

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quote Duncan Idaho

quote axforts2212

gimp. its actually a lot more like photoshop, but it does all the basics paint does as well. easy to use. and free

i agree it does what photshop without making your life impossible and its less heavy than photshop, in the sense that it wont usually freeze, and make your mac crash all the way down.

What are you talking about? I have photoshop CS4 for my design work...I find it much more powerful than gimp, but at the same time it doesnt ever freeze, and never crashes my mac.

Gimp is just the best you can get for free, and for 90% of people gimp has enough tools to satisfy even most graphic designers.

at least in my mac it does, it takes a long while to charge/open, and afterwards after opening an image it usually get onto an infinite loop of chargign wich frozes me to turn off the comp, then when i turn it on 70% of the time ergo, based on a 10=100%, 7 of 10 times the comp goes onto an infinite loop of never charging the finder, or any program at all, afterwards, i have to go all the way to make a hardware test,t hen try to reinstall and reinitiate my mac for it to start running again..., all that happens when i used photoshop, fire fox and that kind of programs, photoshop just takes too much time, and get annoyining i prefer gimp, easy commands, easy way to make banners (like the one i have in my sig), i dont like photoshop, not even when i used i in windows, 90% of the time i had to reinstall software was due photoshop using too much memory of my tower (AKA CPU).

.....wtf is charging?????????



Then your computer is serverely *bleep*ed up.

Firefox should not do that.

Photoshop should not do that.

If Photoshop did that, it wouldnt retail for 700 dollars, and I wouldnt have shelled that money out for something that I could get for free(ergo Gimp)

quote axforts2212

.....wtf is charging?????????



Then your computer is serverely *bleep*ed up.

Firefox should not do that.

Photoshop should not do that.

If Photoshop did that, it wouldnt retail for 700 dollars, and I wouldnt have shelled that money out for something that I could get for free(ergo Gimp)

lol my uncle bought phtoshop for his mac long ago, and charging=loading, also fire fox some times freezes and makes every inch of my system freeze i cant press the commands for it to force the exit due that every inch of my mac freezes, i reinstalled twice the software and it happens like lasst time, that why im using camino less risky to crash anyway i like gimp and a lot, at least loads faster than phtoshop, but thats just me.

quote Duncan Idaho

at least in my mac it does, it takes a long while to charge/open, and afterwards after opening an image it usually get onto an infinite loop of chargign wich frozes me to turn off the comp, then when i turn it on 70% of the time ergo, based on a 10=100%, 7 of 10 times the comp goes onto an infinite loop of never charging the finder, or any program at all, afterwards, i have to go all the way to make a hardware test,t hen try to reinstall and reinitiate my mac for it to start running again..., all that happens when i used photoshop, fire fox and that kind of programs, photoshop just takes too much time, and get annoyining i prefer gimp, easy commands, easy way to make banners (like the one i have in my sig), i dont like photoshop, not even when i used i in windows, 90% of the time i had to reinstall software was due photoshop using too much memory of my tower (AKA CPU).

No one calls it charging, the proper term is loading.
How old is your computer? It sounds like you have an ancient mac that is using outdated hardware to run newer programs that its not made to do.

And memory is completely different than the CPU. You cant say memory (aka cpu) because they are 2 completely different things.

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quote Duncan Idaho

at least in my mac it does, it takes a long while to charge/open, and afterwards after opening an image it usually get onto an infinite loop of chargign wich frozes me to turn off the comp, then when i turn it on 70% of the time ergo, based on a 10=100%, 7 of 10 times the comp goes onto an infinite loop of never charging the finder, or any program at all, afterwards, i have to go all the way to make a hardware test,t hen try to reinstall and reinitiate my mac for it to start running again..., all that happens when i used photoshop, fire fox and that kind of programs, photoshop just takes too much time, and get annoyining i prefer gimp, easy commands, easy way to make banners (like the one i have in my sig), i dont like photoshop, not even when i used i in windows, 90% of the time i had to reinstall software was due photoshop using too much memory of my tower (AKA CPU).

No one calls it charging, the proper term is loading.
How old is your computer? It sounds like you have an ancient mac that is using outdated hardware to run newer programs that its not made to do.

And memory is completely different than the CPU. You cant say memory (aka cpu) because they are 2 completely different things.

the last year model macbook 70 memory G (expanded memory)

WTF does 70 memory G mean???????

quote axforts2212

WTF does 70 memory G mean???????

lol, 70 gigas of memory i have 40 gigas left, anyway, my macbook its from the 2008

Are you talking about the hard drive by any chance, Duncan?

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Are you talking about the hard drive by any chance, Duncan?

yes, i am, and i still have the problem, and its worse, when you turn on the mac, you see a white screen and then the apple logo rigth?, well here is the things for a second or so instead of that it shows up a folder with an ? sign, then charges, what the ehck is that, and i have also made, several threads in the past regarding this particular thing.