What is the best Photoshop or similar program to get for an iMac? Another Mac question. Sorry.

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It’s Adobe Photoshop, CS5 is the best as it’s the newest, probably. But you have to look for a mac version. I have Adobe Photoshop from CS4 on my MacBook. :)

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