Hi Alaska,

If your just doing general flyer stuff and some simple photo editting I think you could get away with PS Elements. But if you can swing I would suggest CS3 or 4.

There's another option thats even free and it has most of the features of PS Element. But there's two problems one I can't remember the name of it though I think it starts with an F and two its not as user friendly as PS.

Hope this helps.

There's also another great cheap PS alternative for Mac users called GraphicConverter: www.lemkesoft.com/

It's shareware, so it costs something like $35 US. It has basic image editing capabilities like levels, contrast/hue/saturation, and some filter effects, and it also (as its name implies) converts image files into nearly any format you could ever want. I love it because it easily prints portfolios of image thumbnails--a great way to quickly get small versions of a whole folder full of image files.

check it out--I hope it works for you.

Thanks guys! I feel so limited editing photos in iphoto, so I think I want something a little more advanced that can also import text and fonts for creating flyers. Hmmm... Decisions, decisions!!