Help me pick a editing program for my Mac.

[unpopular]

It was slow, the tools seemed kind of ho-hum - not terribly technical or sophisticated. I feel a lot with RAW processors that there is a level of bull**** enshrouding the processing. I like being able to manipulate image data by more primitive means. Even the "color temperature slider" kind of irks me, I see it as a sort of mask to make me feel better about what's going on.

CaptureOne wasn't terrible, mind you. It just wasn't really technical enough for me.

 

[unpopular]

... trying out Silky now. standby...

Have you looked into the one from Bibble? It's interesting - if not downright bizarre.
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my first, 10 minute impressions on silky is that it's not what I had hoped it was. The tool I was most excited about was the hue/sat color wheel, I hoped could add arbitrary points and manipulate feather. It's a cool interface, but just isn't what I'd hoped for.

That said, holy guacamole! that thing produces AMAZINGLY sharp results.

 

[pab]

I used CS5 extended for the past year. Few weeks ago I picked up Lightroom 4.2 (absolutely hate it). Upgraded to CS6 and there are a few things I have to get used like the main controls (adding shadowing etc) but i do like how it's no longer just an outside diameter. I prefer the solid interface.

 

[fjrabon]

On my MBA, I generally find Aperture is my favorite. On my big, heavily powered PC desktop I use LR and CS6. But honestly I probably do 95% of my editing on my macbook air and aperture, and I edit a LOT of photos. I've never really had an issue, and I even load my library via a fairly slow external HD. The only sluggishness Aperture has is 100% due to my slow external HD (really need to upgrade that thing, like a month ago).

 

[OLDSKEWL]

On my MBA, I generally find Aperture is my favorite. On my big, heavily powered PC desktop I use LR and CS6. But honestly I probably do 95% of my editing on my macbook air and aperture, and I edit a LOT of photos. I've never really had an issue, and I even load my library via a fairly slow external HD. The only sluggishness Aperture has is 100% due to my slow external HD (really need to upgrade that thing, like a month ago).

Are you running Mountain Lion 10.8.2? I don't know if Aperture is supported by the latest OS.

 

[fjrabon]

On my MBA, I generally find Aperture is my favorite. On my big, heavily powered PC desktop I use LR and CS6. But honestly I probably do 95% of my editing on my macbook air and aperture, and I edit a LOT of photos. I've never really had an issue, and I even load my library via a fairly slow external HD. The only sluggishness Aperture has is 100% due to my slow external HD (really need to upgrade that thing, like a month ago).

Are you running Mountain Lion 10.8.2? I don't know if Aperture is supported by the latest OS.

Yes. Apple is pretty fanatic about supporting their own software with their own operating systems.

 

[OLDSKEWL]

On my MBA, I generally find Aperture is my favorite. On my big, heavily powered PC desktop I use LR and CS6. But honestly I probably do 95% of my editing on my macbook air and aperture, and I edit a LOT of photos. I've never really had an issue, and I even load my library via a fairly slow external HD. The only sluggishness Aperture has is 100% due to my slow external HD (really need to upgrade that thing, like a month ago).

Are you running Mountain Lion 10.8.2? I don't know if Aperture is supported by the latest OS.

Yes. Apple is pretty fanatic about supporting their own software with their own operating systems.

Great, thanks. I think I will check into Aperture then.

 

[KmH]

I used CS5 extended for the past year. Few weeks ago I picked up Lightroom 4.2 (absolutely hate it). Upgraded to CS6 and there are a few things I have to get used like the main controls (adding shadowing etc) but i do like how it's no longer just an outside diameter. I prefer the solid interface.

CS5's Camera Raw and Lightroom 3's Develop module use ACR 6. ACR 6 uses Process Version 2010 (PV2010).

CS6's Camera Raw and Lightroom 4's Develop module use ACR 7 which is PV 2012. In other words Adobe made some major changes going from PV 2010 (ACR 6) to PV 2012 (ACR 7).