This post is for Scott, in response to his questions about a good graphics editor for the Mac.
List of good stuff for you on the graphics side:
1. Graphic Converter (cheap, easy, but very powerful if you want to get into it) and it’ll probably feel a lot like PaintShoPro when you start using it (it always felt like a crappy windows-only graphics editor to me back when I used it 
). And your Mac might have come bundled with it. Look in your Applications folder for it.
2. ArtRage – works well for “painting” if that’s what you’re into.
3. LiveQuartz – very simple, totally free, and built on top of a lot of the CoreImage stuff in Mac OS X. It might not perform that well for you if you have an underpowered machine (ie. an iBook, but check it out and see… I don’t have an iBook to test it on anymore).
4. Image Tricks – freeware image editor based on Core Image again.
YMMV.
I personally always use Macromedia Fireworks for web graphics work that might need animation at some point, and Adobe Photoshop for real graphics work… just so you know. I use Graphic Converter really only for batch graphics conversion and other batch work.
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