Apple

[Grjones]

Hi all, I recently purchased an apple mac, fantastic bit of kit. Just gutted when I sold the PC I sold photoshop with it. I'm lost without it. Has anyone had experience with apature or should I just bite the bullet and buy Ps again for mac?

 

[TheDrift-]

Aperture is more like Lightroom, rather than photoshop.

I think you might be able to "crossgrade" but you might need to check with adobe.....

More details here:
http://prodesigntools.com/move-adobe-cs5-between-computers-or-windows-to-mac.html

You might need to deactivate the version on your pc though did you sell to a friend or relative where you still have access?

 

[Byker28i]

A little lateral thinking, you could put parallels on the mac so you can run PC applications (it's a virtual machine software but the app looks like it runs up as normal but it's running under the VM), or you could just run Windows 7 on your mac

 

[dexter35yrs]

you beat me to it - running a duel operating system

 

[TheDrift-]

Although I would say if you use Lightroom, photoshop, parallels, and mac os and windows, at the same time you need to make sure you have plenty of ram!!

 

[Byker28i]

To be fair, even with a Windows PC, I'm running a 64 bit OS, 24 Gb of ram for photoshop and lightroom running together. It's nice when you've multiple layers in photoshop.

 

[arad85]

He sold Photoshop when he sold the PC. If you already have a license for PS, you can transfer it from a PC to a Mac for free.

 

[lawrenceots]

To be fair, even with a Windows PC, I'm running a 64 bit OS, 24 Gb of ram for photoshop and lightroom running together. It's nice when you've multiple layers in photoshop.

24 gig ram... I only got 8gb!

 

[neil_g]

He sold Photoshop when he sold the PC.

plus a valid windows license will be needed to run a VM.

 

[JonathanRyan]

A little lateral thinking, you could put parallels on the mac so you can run PC applications (it's a virtual machine software but the app looks like it runs up as normal but it's running under the VM), or you could just run Windows 7 on your mac

It's kind of moot because OP sold the package anyway, but running Adobe apps under VMWare wouldn't be too great. VM uses a portion of the resources of the host machine and so could never run as well as if it was on a real (as opposed to virtual) machine. Bootcamp would be a better bet. But IMO not as good as just running a native app.

Back to the original question...Aperture has its fans. Buts it's generally an image level editing app - like Lightroom. Photoshop is a pixel level editing app. If you need to edit pixels (e.g. anything other than the most basic cloning) then you want to look at PS. Or Elements or Gimp etc. But iPhoto is getting pretty powerful now - maybe check that out.