elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

That's an Internet down load! If anyone wants the boxed CD version, it's only $64.99! I ordered early yesterday and got it this Sunday morning via Prime. Amazingly fast!

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Be well! Ed

Tony G.

Simple keeps your health in tack and makes time to go out and photograph.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

You might like Luminar AI--it seemingly does everything for you.

Urnst Loc: Brownsville, Texas

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

I agree. Apple Photos serves all I need as a simple editor. And it’s free.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Second affinity Photo. If you want simpler and shoot Nikon NX Studio is better than most people realize. No layers though.

timcc Loc: Virginia

I also agree that PhotoScape X is easy to learn and has lots of features found in the more expensive programs. And it is free.

You can add features by buying the upgrade, but I've never needed to (the free "trial" lasts forever).

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Big reasons to buy Macs are the free software applications:

Photos (stills catalogue/editor)
GarageBand (music production/audio mixing)
iMovie (video editing)
Pages (word processing/page layout)
Numbers (spreadsheets)
Keynote (presentations)
Preview (image viewer-editor/PDF tool)
Mail (email)
Safari (web browser)

…and many others. They’re all good — no crapware in MacOS.

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

Didn’t even know about all those.

Dennis833 Loc: Australia

I've been using Affinity Photo since it came out. I ditched PS at the same time. I like the develop persona in Version 2 that much I stopped using Capture One.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

When I set up my Mac, I drag aliases from the Applications folder to the dock for:

1, Safari, Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Calculator, Text Edit, Dictionary, Preview, Voice Memos, Notes, Reminders, Maps, Messages, FaceTime, 2, GarageBand, iMovie, Quicktime Player, 3, 4, 5, Photos, Image Capture, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, News, Music, 12, Podcasts, Apple TV, Books, App Store, System Preferences, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, Applications (folder), Utilities (folder), Downloads (folder), Trashcan.

Numbered Items are not Apple Apps:

1 FireFox (free browser)
2 Zoom (free video conferencing)
3 Final Cut Pro (paid Apple pro video editor)
4 HandBrake (free Video compression/resizing tool)
5 VLC Media Player (free AV media player)
6 Epson Scan 2 (free Epson Scanner driver)
7 Fotor Photo Editor (paid fun special effects)
8 SpyderXElite (paid Datacolor Monitor Calibration tool)
9 Graphic Converter (paid — THE Swiss Army knife of image file conversion)
10 Lightroom Classic (Adobe paid subscription)
11 Photoshop (Adobe paid subscription)
12 myTuner Radio (free/paid Internet radio station player)
13 Adobe Acrobat Reader (free from Adobe)
14 Word (MS 365 subscription)
15 Excel (MS 365 subscription)
16 PowerPoint (MS 365 subscription)
17 Outlook (MS 365 subscription)
18 OneNote (MS 365 subscription)
19 Epson Software Updater (free)

All the others either come pre-installed with MacOS, or they are free downloads from the App Store.

I use all of these at one time or another, often enough to keep them in the dock. My other apps are in the Applications folder and Utilities folder. Most of the Apple apps have versions that run on the iPad and iPhone. Most of the Apple apps that generate files can keep them locally AND/OR on iCloud server, so you can access them from all your devices.

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

National Park

Elements!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

GIMP - free, and photoshop like

jlg1000 Loc: Uruguay / South America

Well... MacOS is a dumbed down Linux distro... if you want the real thing, just use Linux.