Photoshop Elements (for Mac) Needed!

[Patrice Maire]

I recently got a new imac... it's pretty spiff and I adore all the stuff I can do.. but the unfortunate thing is, my copy of PE 2 won't work on it! This totally screws with my Avatar and plant photo editing plans! I do altered flower photos as notecards and pictures as well as other stuff.
I can't afford buying it new or used from Amazon and really do need it. (PE 6 is more expensive than PE 8 for some reason!)

Is there anyone out there willing to share their Photoshop Elements 8 (or even 6) for Mac? Maybe have a copy you're not using?

Thanks... otherwise I'll have to wait until Christmas and hope for a GC to Amazon.

[stdout]

There's always GIMP

GIMP - for Mac OS X

[Patrice Maire]

Thanks! Downloading now.. should do me for the same effects I want to do.

[Sight Unseen]

Use Wine Compatibility Layer compiled for Mac. Problem Solved, you can use Windows Elements in Mac.

[Fkeu 'Awpo]

That or, you know....

[Human No More]

Please remember to follow the forum rules... We don't want any trouble...

That said, I know very little about macs, but a quick google shows it seems to be incompatible with the latest mac OS version... not sure if there is a compatibility mode or similar on macs, you'd probably be better off asking someone who uses them

[Woodsprite]

I wouldn't know if my windows version would be compatible, but if Sight is right, where you can run in a windows compatibility mode...

...Considering the forum rules.... I'd like to give you my windows version of Photoshop Elements 7, but I can't. I'd like to send you the key along with it as well, but I can't.

[Fkeu 'Awpo]

And then you realized the forum rules don't apply to PMs

[Sight Unseen]

Wine isn't a part of the Mac OS. It's a (usually linux) binary layer that allows windows exe's to run in a unix-like system, redirecting system calls appropriately. Since Mac is Unix-based, you could get gcc and the rest of the compiling stuff linux people are familiar with, and compile WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X for Mac. Shouldn't take more than 10-15min to edit the autoconf file and configure-make-install, and you're done. Damn, I gotta stop the technobabble.

Or, you could dualboot windows, you could run windows in a sandboxed vm, remote desktop another pc running windows, or you could always get it for Mac you-know where.

So much for "Just works."

[Patrice Maire]

Everything you just said... made absolutely no sense whatsoever and sounds wayyyy too complicated for just getting something LIKE PE to work on my computer. Thanks anyway though!

[Sight Unseen]

Hmm, opposite here. Photoshop scares me a little.