Photoshop or Aperture for image editing on Mac?

Good question.

I do a lot of image editing and when I was on a Dell laptop, I found a program called GIMP. When I compared it to PhotoShop, I found that it had a lot in common with it: lots of functionality, steep learning curve, could do almost anything. BUT the GIMP program had a serious advantage: it's free.

I now have an iMac and run GIMP on it as well. It's not the easiest program to use, but neither is Photoshop. But it lets me do just about anything I need, it's pretty fast, and I really have found no reason to think about getting any other similar program.

If you want to take a look at it, go to gimp.org.

Hope this helps.

i'm a mac person and that i have Aperture, Photoshop CS4, and Lightroom to address the diverse human beings I artwork with. For all standard purposes Aperture and Lightroom carry out an similar projects. I favor to apply Lightroom as my commonly used library/cataloger because as previously said, Aperture is chained to at least one platform. even although macs particularly a lot rule the images scene, its continually safer to bypass with some thing it truly is way less constrained. yet an additional reason i take advantage of Lightroom over Aperture is for the tight integration with different adobe classes. end the right its all a rely of non-public selection as they are both great products of application.

First off, neither of these Apps cost 55 quid from Apple. Illegal commercial software scam websites, maybe.

PhotoShop CS5 starts at 500 quid, but Adobe PhotoShop Elements, maybe. The GIMP is absolutely free, runs on OS X, and does virtually everything PhotoShop CS5 does. And, Aperture is 100 quid, and it isn't even a true photo-editing App, it's more like Google's free and amazing Picasa for photo album management.

So,try the GIMP, and Picasa. And, if you like them, my Finder's Fee is only 10% of your total savings, in Canadian dollars. Just Kidding!

I use a mac and for all of my photo editing I use Photoshop Elements. :)

use win for this purpose