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Image editing can be really simple, like just cropping or resizing a photograph or it can get extremely complicated when used by professional graphic designers tp produce high quality retouched illustrations for printed magazines.

In between those extremes there is also a space for the amateur photographer, website builder or blogger who wants to do a bit more with images but doesn’t have the time or money to get to grips with a 10 tion gorilla piece of software thet is Photoshop.

There have always been simple image editing programs for Windows computers, I remember Paint Shop Pro which was pretty good. On a Mac there is a program called iPhoto which comes bundled with the iLife package, pre installed on Mac computers – which is remarkably good for cropping, and making some automated adjustments with edit tools like sharpen, highlight and shadow.

To go beyond iPhoto but short of Photoshop I recommend Seashore the free image editor for Mac. It’s based on Gimp technology, so it’s quite powerful, but uses the Mac Cocoa system which makes it integrate really well with the Mac way of working, and fast.

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