OT: Any recommendations for some Mac OS x Apps?

[Richmond Mathewson]

Textures: Context Free, SeaShore,

                    JTexSynth (java based)

2D animation: Pencil, ComiPro

Vector Graphics (as well as Inkscape and Expression 3): Drawberry,

Open Office DRAW is really very useful.

CinePaint....

Over Dose of FREE image editors: Acorn, PixelMator, ImageWell,

ArtRage:

"ArtRage [is] the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you 
get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, 
sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold 
leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your 
photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.
Each of the tools in ArtRage is designed to work like its real world 
counterpart (minus the smell of paint thinners, and that piece of 
glitter you just can't get out of the carpet).
Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers 
work just like they do in the real world. Many of the tools can be 
adjusted to give different effects.
ArtRage makes it easy to recreate photos or other images using its paint 
tools. When you load a Tracing Image the original is projected on to 
your canvas so that you can use it as a guide while you sketch and paint.
Guide Comments:

ArtRage started out as a free program for Windows only, but as new 
features were added and a Mac version was developed, it was offered for 
sale--very reasonably at US$19.95. The Free Edition lives on however, 
with some full version features disabled."

DON'T spend money on Mac Software; once you have the machine and the 
operating system
pretty well everything else should be FREE.