Aperture Or Photoshop For Mac

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Starting with OS X Yosemite v10.10.3, your Mac now includes the Photos app, Aperture 3 cannot be installed on OS X Yosemite or newer Mac OS X because the Photos App replaces Aperture. Amazon.com Aperture 3 combines powerful performance with iPhoto simplicity to help you refine images, showcase your photography, and manage massive libraries on. The current price of Photoshop is over $699 while an upgrade from a previous version costs $199. In comparison, Apple’s Aperture is available at the Mac store for a mere $80. Photoshop is a more powerful image editing tool than Aperture 2. Photoshop has more powerful plugins than Aperture 3. Aperture 3 is a arguably the very best photo management app available for your Mac, and it does a fair job of editing your photos too. However, you wish to fine-tune any adjustments further with the likes or Photoshop Elements, Photoshop CC or Pixelmator.

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October 16, 2007

Aperture vs. Lightroom: What do the pros use?

It’s been exactly two years since Apple threw its hat into the professional photography ring with the introduction of Aperture. Adobe responded shortly thereafter with the introduction of Lightroom. So, how does the pro photography market look now?
InfoTrends recently surveyed 1,026 professional photographers in North America to determine which software they used for raw file processing. Here’s what folks reported:

66.5% using the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in
23.6% using Lightroom
5.5% using Aperture

To be fair to Aperture, it might be helpful to remove Windows users from the equation for a moment. Even after doing so, Lightroom’s usage among Mac-based pros is still nearly double that of Aperture (26.6% vs. 14.3%).

It’s also worth pointing out that photographers haven’t started to abandon Photoshop as a result of using tools such as Lightroom. (Photoshop usage overall remains in the 90% range.) The vast majority of photographers seem to understand pretty clearly the different nature & roles of the apps, and they continue to view Photoshop as a must-have part of any serious arsenal.