Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC Apple Vs PC

[A.J. Merrifield (101pdt]

+1 for Aperture, especially version 3.0.  Made a HUGE difference in my workflow and large batch processing of photos.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, francis newman <francis [at] fntn.co.uk> wrote:

George

Photoshop was a Mac only app when it was first introduced and I suspect Mac sales still outstrip Win as most creatives work on Macs. Aperture is not a direct equivalent to Photoshop, the Adobe equivalent being Lightroom. But I can also recommend Pixelmator as a low cost alternative to Photoshop, it does most of what the average non pro user would need and only costs 30 bucks.

Incidentally I can recommend the OpenOffice as a free alternative to MS Office. Files are compatible

Francis

On 25 Jan 2012, at 16:55, George P. wrote:

> I, too, just got a 27" iMac.  I love it.  I've always like Apple/Mac products, but used PCs both at work (what they gave me) and at home (price).
>
> I got MS Office for Mac with mine, so all those files are compatible.  I would think that for pretty much any application, there's a mac version, or a mac equivalent (if you're not so hooked on a PC app that you can't transition to a mac equivalent).  For example, Photoshop may or may not be available for Mac, but the equivalent is called "Aperture" and seems to do everything I need it to do (though I'm no pro!).  So I'll sacrifice my Photoshop for Aperture and work my pics in that from now on.
>
> But what impressed me most was setting up my printer - an 8 year old Epson.  Plugged it in (USB) and the Mac detected it and asked if I wanted it to go find the drivers for it.  Uh, yes, thank you.  Then it asked if I wanted it to install said drivers.  Why, sure!  2 minutes later, I was printing.  Since this is my first Mac, it seems fair to compare it to my first PC - which took a full day just to get the stupid thing to print one page.  But since that was many moons ago, it's probably *not* fair to make that comparison.  I'm told that modern PCs are almost as good as the mac in that regard.  But it sure was impressive nonetheless.
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> gp

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