What are the advantages of Aperture over Pixelmator as a Photoshop alternative ?

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What are the advantages of Aperture over Pixelmator as a Photoshop alternative ?

Hi guys, yesterday i was looking for a photoshop alternative on the internet , i came to know that Apple has a Photoshop alternative called Aperture and i also found Pixelmator as Photoshop alternative for the Mac OS X. I still don't know the advantages of Aperture over Pixelmator.

http://forums.steves-digicams.com/editors-photoshop-vegas-final-cut-pro-kdenlive -etc/150031-iphoto-vs-photoshop-vs-apple-aperture.html

http://alternativeto.hubpages.com/hub/10-free-cross-platform-Photoshop-alternati ves-for-a-stunning-image

http://www.reviews.com/photo-editing-software/apple-aperture-3/

http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2821

The above are some of th articles i found on the internet on using Aperture as a Photoshop alternative. None of them describes the advantage of Aperture over Pixelmator. I intent to buy Aperture but i would like to know the advantage of it over Pixelmator.

thank you in advance.

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Nov 30, 2013 1:32 AM

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léonie

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Nov 30, 2013 1:55 AM in response to theappleaddict

Aperture and Photoshop are used for very different tasks, you may want to have both.

Aperture is used to maintain and manage huge photo libraries, that may be distributed over several drives. And it is a photo editor, designed to develope, adjust, and render (raw) photographs to perfection in professional quality.

Photoshop and Pixelmator are tools for image editing and graphics compositing - in addition to image enhancement you can use them to overlay and combine images into one, to add graphics and text, to turn photographs into graphics and make them look like fake line drawings or paintings.

For most needs Aperture in combination with Pixelmator would be a great combination. Pixelmator does not help to tag and archive your photo and Apertures raw developement and adjustment tools are superior, but it will add good tools for compositing.

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