Morn, Thomas. :-) I'm not a mac user, but I agree with Godfrey. Aperture can be a good place to start and seem to be a lot of software for the money. The other alternatives mentioned are good programs too; Lightroom and Photoshop Elements. There are others too. Like LightZone (http://www.lightcrafts.com) and the much denigrated Pentax Digital Camera Utility which you already own.
On the pricey end of things you can buy separate software for editing and archiving, but that's not as interesting IMHO. Whatever the size of your wallet, you will find that the various options have quite different workflows in mind for the photographers. Take PhaseOne's Raw1, for example. It is explicitly developed for commercial shoots, to facilitate a workflow that goes: 1. shoot a flood of images on location 2. flip through all of them fast to find the keepers 3. do some basic processing 4. send them off to customer 5. offload batch into archive at night I guess most of us hardly have one specific sequence of activities in our workflow like Raw1 assumes. Sometimes we don't have the time to sort the images just after a shot. Sometimes we want to do more than basic processing. Sometimes we need to backup before doing anything else. The option to be totally undiciplined is one of the true blessings of hobby photography. :-) So my advice for you is to look less at the overkill of features, and more at the general interface of the software. Pick one that you find pleasing to work with for your normal routines. For the features you don't use often, it's important that you don't have to struggle (too much anyway) to find what you're looking for. If you're happy with the general interface, chances are better to find what you need when you need it. Jostein 2011/4/19 Thomas Bohn <thb...@gmail.com>: > Hello or Moin, > > I'm wondering about my photo workflow on my Mac recently. So I > downloaded the Aperture Trial to see wether the software works for me > or not. > > Since I'm still importing my iPhoto database I can't tell much it yet. > But I begin to wonder if I really need the power of Aperture now, on > the other hand I already saw some feature I already missed in iPhoto. > > For example iPhoto offers just one option for a general improvement of > a photo, which isn't always right. > > So basicly iPhoto means for me, to stuck at a certain level and > Aperture would mean a lot of feature which I might need or want in the > future. > > I hope for some advice and some ideas, maybe even other software I > could use instead. > > Thomas > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
