 Niccole Olsen |
Aperture or Photoshop? Wondering if anyone has any input or advice on which program to choose, Aperture or Photoshop? I am in the process of upgrading to a MacBook Pro. Thanks for any help! Niccole
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W. |
Aperture came pre-installed with my MacBook Pro. If it does with yours I see little sense in shelling out 500 bucks for something you've already, more or less, got. Have fun!
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robert G. Fately |
Nicole, comparing these two programs is not an "apples-to-apples" issue - they are really designed for different purposes. Aperture is primarily a digital workflow tool, and can be compared with Adobe Lightroom. These packages offer DAM (digital asset management) and methods for quickly culling through your work from a shoot, ranking, sorting, etc. They both offer some basic editing tools (color correction, cropping, etc.) but are in no way full fledged editing programs. Both are available in 30 day free downloads - you might want to try them both to see which you prefer. Personally, I selected Aperture a while back and while I like it I am disappointed with Apple's slow updates as far as RAW file recognition from the latest camera models (Nikon D300, Canon Powershot G9). Still, in my opinion Aperture's user interface is better. And the rumor mill has it that APerture 2.0 will be coming out sometime soon; there may be more nifty stuff in there. Meanwhile, Photoshop is a full post-processing editing tool, capable of doing much more with the images than either of the above programs. You might want to consider Elements, which is 90% of the full program for 15% of the price. Entire libraries have been written about how to use and what can be done with Photoshop, though, so you may want to review some books to see if that kind of editing is the sort of thing you want to really get into. I hope that helps.
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Richard Lynch |
Bob, That was nearly my usualy response...right down to the suggestion to use (Elements) if considering Photoshop as much less expensive and probably all most users will ever need. A good way to test things out is with a free trial: Richard Lynch
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