Aperture v Photoshop?

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Hi

I've been very tempted by the great Aperture price on the Apple App Store at the moment - only £44 - but already have Photoshop CS3 (for my design work).

I just wanted to know from anyone that uses them, should I just use Ps or would Aperture generally be a better way to edit/organise my images? Admittedly, a lot of my photography is of my family so I just file all that into Year/Month folders for ease, but if there's a better way....

Is Ps much more powerful in terms of retouching, dealing with RAW files etc?

Any help appreciated!

Thanks

Ben
 
Aperture is great to organise, your work and has a great raw workflow. I hardly use photoshop at all since I got Aperture as most tasks aperture will do for me and I only use PS for more complex stuff (which is opened via the keyboard shortcut in aperture) do the edit, save and it is there back in aperture library all sorted.

Honestly it was amazing at full price and I would recommend it for those who only have photoshop to invest. The price on the app store is a steal for a professional level product. Just get it, will be the best £45 you spend.
 
Aperture is very good to organize and tag your photo. You can find the photos you are looking for within seconds
Plus it will be much easier to update the pictures out of the heavy photoshop
 
I'm very tempted by Aperture, but somewhat put off by some of the comments on the App store. Is it really difficult to import your whole iphoto library into it? because if it is, I wont bother.
 
oldnick said:
I'm very tempted by Aperture, but somewhat put off by some of the comments on the App store. Is it really difficult to import your whole iphoto library into it? because if it is, I wont bother.
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Personally I never use the library stuff, I see no point in having shed loads of duplicated photo's all over the place, and Aperture is no better a viewer tha iphoto anyway.

You can quite happily just process and save to a folder and delete all the Aperture project folders, just remember to keep emptying the aperture trash as it will hang on to everything.
 
Converted my iPhoto Library to Aperture about 12 months back ish... took a while but well worth doing it.

Ive got 3 libraries at the moment for Aperture just to keep the library size down to keep it manageable... one for general stuff, one for rugby (think I may need a new one for each season as its unmanageably massive) and one for motorsport.

Never really managed to get on with photoshop but from what I gather its more of a replacement for lightroom than photoshop... so really you can use aperture and photoshop together (anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Personally cant really fault it for managing photos and making quick adjustments like straightening and making slight tweaks to exposure and white balance etc
 
you can have a trial on aperture first, same on photoshop!
i think if you start with aperture you will not go PS since this latter is much more complex to use! it is more a graphist tool than a purely dedicated picture software
 
Aperture is more akin to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom than to Photoshop itself - very different although with lots of synergies.

I use both Lr & Ps. They compliment easch other well so I'd say aperture and Ps shopuld be a similar great combo.
 
ding76uk said:
Honestly it was amazing at full price and I would recommend it for those who only have photoshop to invest. The price on the app store is a steal for a professional level product. Just get it, will be the best £45 you spend.
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Hi can you add a link to this deal as i can only find the aperture upgrade for £81. Or has the deal finished now ?
Many thanks
Pete
 
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