Best RAW image processing application - Aperture

To work with photos in Mac OS X you have generally three options. You can use iPhoto, which is cool for sorting photos, but to make adjustments, it is very painful. Or you can buy Adobe Light Room and you can run with your photos at full speed. As a last option - you can buy Aperture provided directly by Apple.

Aperture is not a cheap piece of software. With its price, you have to be sure, you will really use almost all its features or you will loose a lot of money. Aperture is a professional solution helping the photographers to store, sort, adjust and export their photos.

The features available to the user in Aperture are really enormous. The whole process of adjusting photos starts with the import, which is very easy and you can choose whether to import photos to the new project or just add them to the existing one.

After importing, the computer gets really slow for a while as Aperture makes all the calculations in the background. You can go on with the work, but I usually leave the computer to finish the task as it takes about several minutes and the work is really painful. But, when the calculations are finished, the work with Aperture is really fun.

When you start to edit RAW images, you will find no feature covered. All the changes are visible immediately as the original image is not touched by the changes, all the changes in Aperture are done on the previews and thumbnails and you are really supported by Aperture to make experiments with your photos.

Generally, there is nothing better to work with, when you need to make changes to your RAW images and export them. But, the cost is really pretty huge. When you are not sure, just download the trial version of Aperture and you will see. But - be aware, you will not want to go back to your current solution as Aperture is really the best.

By the way, I was visiting my parents during this weekend and made some photos, you can have a look at them in my Photo Gallery. And the photos are stored in Aperture.