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Got another alternative vendor to suggest for Creative Suite or Office products? Drop a note in the comments with your suggestion. GigaOM recently posted an excellent list of their take on Adobe Creative Suite alternatives. Speaking of pages, both iWork and Apache's OpenOffice provide promising alternatives to Microsoft Office. Swift Publisher from Belight seems to offer good word of mouth as well.

For page layout, Apple offers both Pages and iBooks Author.

Illustrator users will find a variety vector drawing solutions for OS X including Vector Designer, Intaglio, Sketch, and EazyDraw.

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Power users, however, may want to consider PDFPen Pro, a product we've covered in the past, which offers extensive PDF editing features. With Acrobat, you need look no further than Preview for an app that offers many similar features.

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For years, this free app has been a stepping-stone app for people who didn't yet have the cash for Photoshop but who wanted access to powerful image editing.Īs for the rest of the suite, we TUAWians mostly use Acrobat, Illustrator, and InDesign: GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, has a lock on price.This "inspiring, easy-to-use, beautifully designed image editor" has somewhat mixed reviews on the Mac App Stores, but those who love it seem to do so passionately.

At just $14.99, Pixelmator's price point can't be beat.

Called the "Image Editor for Humans", it comes with great word of mouth and growing buzz.

Acorn ($29.99) is on sale throughout May.

On the photo editing side of things, we propose three candidates. It's time now to seriously look at alternatives. I live very low on the Adobe consumer hierarchy, trying to eke out whatever time I have left with my CS 4 suite.

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I've purchased CS because the consumer products aren't powerful enough for my needs, but I'm certainly not a full time "creative" who thinks of the suite as merely an incidental purchase.Īs a rule, I have upgraded as infrequently as possible, stretching out my purchases over as many years and operating systems as possible.

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Like many other Adobe customers, I live in the hazy world that stretches between Pro apps at one and and Consumer grade at the other. I accomplish far more using Photoshop and the other Creative Suite products, items I have spent years upgrading at considerable expense. This has a number of us here at TUAW looking around to see what apps we might want to jump to as we move away from our premium products into the current marketplace.Īlthough I am fond of Adobe Photoshop Elements, the consumer-priced version of Adobe's flagship photo editor, it's an app with walls. Existing customers of CS 3 to CS 5.5 and academics will pay $29.99 per month.īoth Adobe and Microsoft are exploring subscription models in place of buy-once-then-use purchases. Yesterday, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud, an on-line subscription based suite with $49.99 monthly charges that moves into the Creative Suite subscription space first started back in 2011.