Pat McCrotch

Hello,

I would like to find a simple alternative to photoshop for creating band flyers. I don't need anything fancy, maybe some basic cropping of pictures and fonts. I already have pages but I don't think it's really what I need to create a nice poster.

Thanks for your suggestions.

jwootton

Gimp, can't be bothered to post link, you'll find it

rgray

Seashore

Paintbrush

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Paul82

Pixelmator

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okcomputer

Pages in layout mode is great for posters.

Pixelmator is an excellent image editor and it's much cheaper than Photoshop.

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Don't laugh, but Keynote is actually great for stuff like that. I use it all the time. Not only does it do the job well, it makes it easy to do things like align and centring your images. Add Preview for a few crops and size adjustments here and there and you have a powerful set of tools at your disposal.

CubaMark

Another +1 for Pixelmator - a great, cheaper Photoshop alternative that's improving constantly.

Pages is also a great layout and basic image editor option... ALPHA is probably the best damn feature ever added to the iWork suite.

Note that with Keynote, unlike Pages, you can make high-resolution posters and output to PDF or TIFF. It's far more powerful than most people realize...

How to change slide resolutions from the default sizes

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