Aperture vrs CS4 vrs Lightroom

[riz]

I shall be purchasing a Mac soonish.

I use CS2 atm and will probably get CS4 on the Mac, but is the best prog to use?

I dont do heavy editing, but if i can get Cs4/5 shall i just carry on using that on the Golden Delicious?

What is Aperture like? I assume it has levels. dodge + burn etc etc ?

 

[BoomOne]

aperture and lightroom are very similar, pretty good for doing editing (ie. levels and color treatments and all that)

photoshop is a bit less user friendly (not as simple), but when you know it inside out, its obv lot more powerful that the other two mentioned apps, allowing proper editing and touch ups.

id say if you have used and are familiar with adobe products then get lightroom for ease of use or photoshop if you want to really get stuck into editing.

if you are bored with the adobe stuff and feel like a bit of a change, go with aperture.

 

[Christopher]

CS means the entire suite. I'm assuming you mean Photoshop?

 

[Moz168]

Newest lightroom is probably all you'll need for most things.

If youve got the space and your acquiring it somewhere other than Adobe then cant harm having it.

 

[riz]

Meh lightrooms interface looks funny, CS4 rocks

 

[Andy.]

What version of Lightroom have you tried? Since using it, my PP has got a lot better than with Photoshop and my processing times have decreased dramatically.

It is honestly worth giving another go, I think that you are the only person that I have heard say a bad word against it.

 

[riz]

Im on my netbook atm i will look later , i think it is 2.something

 

[MaLicE]

im using apperture 2 and ps cs4