IPhoto iPhoto, the image manager that Apple supplies free for all Mac users, has a borderline image editor, providing only the basics -- cropping, scaling, rotating, brightness, red-eye fixing, importing, exporting and, of course, photo management in general. (That's iPhoto's big strength.) Apple improved iPhoto a few months ago, adding much-needed functions, so if you already have iPhoto but don't have the latest version, go get it. But even with the new functions, iPhoto is handy, helpful, superbly designed for basic operations and, unfortunately, too limited for serious work. Image Tricks Image Tricks is a free image editor for Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger. Image Tricks is based on Apple Core Image filters and includes about 35 Image Units (blur, distortion, stylize filters, tile effects and more). Image Tricks includes the following Image Units and key features: Distortion filters (twirl, bump, pinch and more) Stylish filters (mosaic, crystalize, use halftone effects, etc.) Blur filters (zoom, motion, etc.) Color adjustment filters (saturation, brightness, contrast, hue, etc.) Tile, kaleidoscope and crop images Effects filters (crystallize, bloom, gloom, etc.) iPhoto integration Import all kinds of images (over 20 formats including TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS) Export to TIFF and JPEG formats. Pixen Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac.

As far as Mac photo editing software goes, you should be able to find a basic editing program for under $100, typically starting for as little as $30. Paying more than $100 will often land you a professional editing program with additional editing tools and presets compared to the basic versions.

It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists - people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop.

And best of all, it's Free! DVD Editor for Mac DVD Editor for Mac is a powerful DVD Ripping and DVD Editing software, it can rip copyright protected DVD to computer. You can also use it to cut DVD, join DVD chapters, trim DVD clips, add special effect to DVD movie, put watermark or text on DVD. It can help you convert DVD movie to iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Apple TV, iTunes, iMovie, YouTube, etc on Mac. ImageMagick ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.

It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bezier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated. Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line; more often, however, the features are used from programs written in the programming languages C, Ch, C++, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (MagickCore, MagickWand, PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RMagick, TclMagick, L_Magick, and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automatically and dynamically. ImageMagick supports many image formats (over 95) including formats like GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX. Goldberg Goldberg is a freeware image and movie viewer with image editing capabilities and support for applying QuickTime and other effects. Version 2.0 is a major rewrite and offers rotation capabilities, free zooming, undo support and more.