BMONNO  excellent program, not only for images (e.g. pdf), many good features, fast even with great images. I use it more than year an never missed PSE or pixelmator!

BTW: Apple didn't want any fee for upgradig from 10.4.10 to 10.5.0?  
(Version 14.02)

JMLEONFOUNLIN  PhotoLine 15 may not have as beautiful an interface as Pixelmator, but it is very powerful. As far as I know it is the only editing photo app which allows you to use most editing tools in Lab (without the need to convert the image to Lab, though you can so if you will) or HSV-HIS mode directly within the tools. Raw Developer also permits editing curves not only in RGB but also in Lab (but it is a raw converter). It also supports CMYK.

Contrary to what has been said there is a history palette, but PL doesn't have quite the same terminology as PS (View -> Dialog -> Undo List). Sharpening can be done non destructively (on a layer). The app also makes it possible to use screen and printer ICC profile (I use Spyder3 Pro and PrintFX Pro). It can also create HDR images and can import raw images.

Recently I've done all my editing in PL 15 up to framing and watermarking and exporting for web (leaving raw editing to Capture One 4 though). Really, this app deserves much more than the review I've read here but you have to go beyond the not so tasty face. Remember that it is also relatively cheap. For all the features, it is a real bargain in fact.  
(Version 15.01)

MITCH_DE  Working perfect also in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard !

For semiprofessionals & hobbiest the best software doing "Photoshop" work.

Adobe hasnt that reached ;)  
(Version 15.5)

MAGOSILVAN  I must apologize for my former appreciation: PhotoLine is not a sort of halfway between Photoshop and Pixelmator, it has more to say, but it isn't surely mac friendly.

It is full of options but the Help is poor or referring to not corresponding screenshots from Windows version.  
(Version 15.05)

TOMIS  The download is 16MB for Universal, 10MB for PPC. I couldn't find a screen shot of the program anywhere on their website, if I had, I wouldn't have bothered downloading it. Too many palettes, too many menus. The program tries to be too many things at once, and it does none of them elegantly.

To be fair, you _can_ accomplish the tasks the program was designed for. It's not as if it's severely lacking in features.

The big problem is that it's a MacOS 9 interface with feature-creep being shoe-horned into a MacOS X existence. It just doesn't feel right.

For example; using the mouse scrollwheel changes the document zoom level instead of actually scrolling the document. This is a good metaphore for the interface on the whole.  
(Version 13.01)

MAGOSILVAN  Interesting, ambitious graphic app. A sort of halfway between Photoshop and Pixelmator, but not yet mature: it misses a History panel and vectorial instruments are not yet easy to use.

Basis are good and if the developer perfects its work, I think it can begin a real competitor at least of Photoshop Elements (which, for now, I'll continue to use).  
(Version 15.01)

BLUEPOLO  Do not use this program to edit exif data!

I downloaded this to bulk change exif data on some photos where a camera error had not recorded any exif data.

Well its hard to find how to do it, but I foud it eventually.

However, after changing the exif data, it trashes the file so that preview and even photoshop cannot read the jpg anymore!

I got the pics back by saving as tiff and converting back in photoshop, but that lost me the exif data again.

Lesson learnt - avoid!  
(Version 13.52)

ANONYMOUS  I tried to download this program. It says the program is only 8.1MB. Not so. The compressed download is 8.1, but it quit unstuffing when my available memory was gone at 382MB with more still to unstuff.

I don't recall Photoshop having anywhere near the size footprint of this program.

The true size of this should be posted, not the size of the much compressed download.  
(Version 12.02)

SALTY DOG  La traduzione italiana di PhotoLine 32 è da oggi disponibile nella pagina dei download, sul sito del produttore.

Program languages: German, English, French.

Available translations: Chinese, Italian.  
(Version 11.50)

LEE  If you are looking for and editing program that can support 16 bit PS compatible plugins, But dont want to deal with the higher learning curve associated with PS, or the higher cost, Look no further. Ideal for users of film scanners who want to edit at higher bit levels.  
(Version 10.04)