Aperture and Photoshop
Ok, so I'm getting more into photography, I'm thinking about buying a better camera, and taking this a little more seriously. My question is can Photoshop do what Aperture does? I've been looking Aperture, and it seems that Photoshop can do everything it can do. I know Aperture has nondistructive editing (which is a big feature), and gives you multiple ups or light table options, but as far as editing goes, are they equal? I already have Photoshop, and I plan on upgrading when the CS3 suite comes out, so I don't want to buy something else if I don't really need to. Any opinions?
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aperture has such a small fraction of the functionality of photoshop that it's not really a fair comparison. as it stand, lightroom already has more functionality than aperture and they're in the same category.
Photoshop's Camera RAW IS still better than Aperture's though. Here's two really good comparisons:
http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2006/...ightroom_.html
http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2006/...re_vs_lig.html
Aperture actually has better levels than Photoshop, but it lacks Curves. Aperture's levels are so good that it reduces the need for Curves, but it's not quite the same.
Aperture's sharpening lacks a 'threshold' control. This means that when sharping up your picture, you end up sharpening your noise too.
Finally, Aperture's histogram is slightly rounded: Posterization will not show up. This isn't a serious problem for anyone, especially since most RAW images will be more than 8 bits anyway. Unless you're working with contrived images, you can't really get any posterization in Aperture anyway.