paintshop pro or corel draw for mac?

[CMDRTED]

As the title says. My old tried and not true (new) DELL (i) computer finally gave up the ghost, and was ghost busted to boot. My wife replaced it with a Mac uber computer and now am beginning the painful process of learning a new system. I have a boatload of image editing programs for windows xp but of course they probably won't work. I'm a little novice like to be splicing the windows op system to mac so I thought I'd try our brain trust of excellant computer and software savvy members for help and guidance. I need to open PDFs for editing, area fills, line drawing (for panel lines), spray painting, layers, blah blah etc.

[Wilfried]

I'm a Macuser for a long time; last year I pick a Macbook Pro into my collection to use the applications of both worlds... so if your wife have an Intel processed Mac - fantastic. You can split the hard disc with bootcamp and on the new partition you can use your well known Windows applications ...

With lovely greetings
the Wilfried

[Maltedfalcon]

I too have a mac, and I use Parallels to run windows so that I have access to my PaintShop Pro.
everything else I try to use Mac Software. (still fire up windows and excel though)

[sgoti]

For Mac-native software, you might look at GIMP (similar to Paintshop Pro) and/or Inkscape (similar to CorelDraw!).

Good news: Both are open source and available free.
Not-so-good news: You might have a bit of a learning curve figuring these out. :(

Since I can still run the commercial Adobe products I bought seven(!) years ago, I have not tried these programs other than to:
1) See if they can open certain test files (they can), and
2) How hard would it be to use these in place of paid commercial software (see answer above).

I am not saying they are bad in any way, just different. (remember Joe Pesci's "Froggy" story from Lethal Weapon 4? :D)

As far as running actual Windows software, you can use the Boot Camp method or a virtualizer (Parallels, VMWare Fusion, or VirtualBox). With any of these, you need a copy of Windows to install as well.

I have used Parallels (until I upgraded to a newer Mac OS and needed a newer version of Parallels) and tried VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is free, it worked for the most part (for what I was testing it for), but I was not able to get a printer configured easily (OK, not at all ).

I also dabbled a bit with WINE, no results worth reporting.

Glenn

[Ron40]

A good little program for Mac's is Color IT.... It is not very
expensive and lets you line draw, color, edit, import, export
and various other functions. It is available at Digimage Arts - Developers of fine image-editing software
I used it to do the P-47 Bubble top for Lou Dausse at PMI Color IT
also works with Photoshop and illustrator....Ron

[sgoti]

Originally Posted by Ron40

A good little program for Mac's is Color IT.... It is not very
expensive and lets you line draw, color, edit, import, export
and various other functions. It is available at Digimage Arts - Developers of fine image-editing software
I used it to do the P-47 Bubble top for Lou Dausse at PMI Color IT
also works with Photoshop and illustrator....Ron

Cool! Might have to check this one out...

Thanks!

Glenn

[sgoti]

Also, I strongly recommend anything from the "Missing Manual" series by David Pogue, especially if you are learning OS X.

Clear, easy to understand, and he doesn't put down the "other" operating systems (I had the one for Windows XP as well as the OS X ones).

Let us know how it goes!

Glenn