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Aperture 3 or Photoshop CS5
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1196397"><p>As Schweb correctly points out, Lightroom (and Aperture) are essentially the same program (in that they are primarily digital asset MANAGERS that feature SOME editing). They are aimed at professional photographers or serious hobbyists, usually with staggering numbers of pictures AND/OR who shoot huge amounts of the same thing (like model shots or food shots).</p><p></p><p>If you need to do only light editing to most pictures, then perhaps the offerings of Aperture/Lightroom will meet your needs. Both tend to work more as a COMPLEMENT to Photoshop than a replacement. Photoshop (the real thing, not Elements) is another tool aimed at professionals, it's WAY overkill for most consumers (and priced accordingly).</p><p></p><p>If you're a consumer-level shooter, then you might want to look at the excellent but more consumer-oriented Photoshop Elements for serious editing, alongside iPhoto for library management and minor tweaking.</p><p></p><p>Pixelmator (which I use every day now) is nice in many ways -- there's a lot of it I **REALLY** wish Adobe would pick up on -- but its primarily a toy IMHO. Too many things it can't do, but it does the basics really elegantly so I kinda like it (and the Mac App Store price is certainly right!), but I generally recommend PS Elements over Pixelmator unless you're quite web-oriented and only need a limited featureset.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1196397"] As Schweb correctly points out, Lightroom (and Aperture) are essentially the same program (in that they are primarily digital asset MANAGERS that feature SOME editing). They are aimed at professional photographers or serious hobbyists, usually with staggering numbers of pictures AND/OR who shoot huge amounts of the same thing (like model shots or food shots). If you need to do only light editing to most pictures, then perhaps the offerings of Aperture/Lightroom will meet your needs. Both tend to work more as a COMPLEMENT to Photoshop than a replacement. Photoshop (the real thing, not Elements) is another tool aimed at professionals, it's WAY overkill for most consumers (and priced accordingly). If you're a consumer-level shooter, then you might want to look at the excellent but more consumer-oriented Photoshop Elements for serious editing, alongside iPhoto for library management and minor tweaking. Pixelmator (which I use every day now) is nice in many ways -- there's a lot of it I **REALLY** wish Adobe would pick up on -- but its primarily a toy IMHO. Too many things it can't do, but it does the basics really elegantly so I kinda like it (and the Mac App Store price is certainly right!), but I generally recommend PS Elements over Pixelmator unless you're quite web-oriented and only need a limited featureset. [/QUOTE]
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