Lightroom, photoshop or aperture?

[Pukka312]

I currently use Lightroom 3 and CS5, but ran into a fellow photog who uses aperture. He was showing me a few things about aperture that impressed me. Has anyone tried all 3 programs and come out with a fave? I am most comfortable with photoshop, though I know if I learned how to work with Lightroom more, it would save me time and speed up my workflow. What about Aperture? I'm mostly interested in the most efficient method of editing. Ideally I'd like to save my photoshop use for the few edits that I want to do more artistic alterations to (i.e. textures and such). I was impressed with the auto white balance feature for skin tones on aperture, which really was the only thing the other photographer demonstrated for me. Preferences for those who do high volume editing?

 

[KmH]

Moved from Photography Equipment & Products.

Aperture is Apple's version of the same type of application Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is - PIEware.

Lightroom, being Adobe software, is designed to tightly integrate with Photoshop. Aperture isn't Adobe softwrae, and can't be as tightly integrated.

 

[Carlos_Gouveia]

Lightroom #1 for most of the serious photographers

 

[Mully]

Get LR you won't be sorry

 

[KmH]

Guy's! The OP already has Lightroom. :lmao:

CS 5 Camera Raw and Lightroom 3's Develop module are both Adobe Camera Raw 6 (ACR 6).
If you want to learn more about how to use ACR (Camera Raw/Develop module), get - The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop

Lightroom and Aperture are mainly about image database management. - The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

 

[Light Guru]

I use aperture and photoshop. I downloaded the trial of Lightroom but did not find it as intuitive to use as Aperture.