hi, i'm a noob to the whole digital darkroom thing so forgive me if i may seem ignorant. how does Aperture differ from Photoshop CS2? not only in relation to photography, but generally. can aperture do everything PS can?
Do correct me if I'm wrong:dunno: !
I'm an Aperture user. I don't have much experience with PS, but just from comparing PS elements and Aperture, I'd say they're two different programmes. PS has features that let you touch up blemishes in your photos, add special effects etc... Aperture doesn't.
Where Aperture beats PS, in my opinion, is in helping me manage my RAW files. It excels at that. I mainly like the way Aperture's lightbox concept allows me to very quickly sort hundreds of photos from a shoot, compare them and select the best ones. Aperture's virtual loupe is a handy feature here. This was something I would take hours to do using PS elements, but minutes using Aperture.
Of course, following that I do the post-processing, levels, contrast etc, but I'm not too good at all that so I"ll let someone else do the talking for that.
If I had lots of $$ I would get both, I think... Aperture to manage the raw files and most of the post-processing, and PS to do the touchups and add any optional effects.
