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Aperture VS Lightroom: The Pros

October 30th, 2007

For digital photographers there are two major options for managing and editing their photos. Apple’s Aperture, and Adobe’s Lightroom. So what do the pros use, Lightroom or Aperture?

InfoTrends recently surveyed 1,026 professional photographers in North America to determine which software they used for raw file processing. Here’s what folks reported:

  • 66.5% using the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in
  • 23.6% using Lightroom
  • 5.5% using Aperture

To be fair to Aperture, it might be helpful to remove Windows users from the equation for a moment. Even after doing so, Lightroom’s usage among Mac-based pros is still nearly double that of Aperture (26.6% vs. 14.3%).

I’ve tried both, and like Lightroom much better over Aperture, and it seems that the Pros mostly side with my thinking.

Via Daring Fireball

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