Quote Originally Posted by unjx


I think you need both. And they work together very well.


Lightroom has brought order to my image files, and when I need photoshop for a certain plugin, or other need it is easily used. If I used Apple I would still use Lightroom over Aperture because of the ease of use and integration with other Adobe products. I do highly recommend Capture One as well, it is the best for tethered shooting and has excellent RAW processing.



Aperture does interact pretty seamlessly with PS. You can actually tell Aperture to open the RAW file in PS. It will send the tiff to PS you can do edits save it and Aperture will recognize the tiff as the new RAW. You can switch back and forth because the process is non destructive. If you are happy with the results Aperture will permanently replace it to reduce file size.


I find Aperture to have better RAW fine adjustments than PS RAW. I don't know about LR. After trying to work with clunky Bridge and PS Aperture is a breeze with its highly customizable file system. My only complaint about Aperture is that you can't just drag and drop one image. You have to go through the filing system.


Tethered shooting is a breeze with Aperture also.