a friend of mine from the blogosphere has recently been looking at both aperture and lightroom. He’s an apple man through and through, so eventually picked aperture because it works like a Mac, rather than Lightroom, which works like an Adobe app for Windows.

It was interesting because he found lightroom much more powerful than aperture, but couldn’t come to terms with the appearance and workflow. He’s not a professional either, but does take quite a lot of pics and is both a perfectionist and convinced the apple way is THE right way.

BTW I find your use of iPhoto interesting. It never occurred to me to use it to organise images (and I have most of mine on a PC anyway). But as a photo editor it seemed very frustrating, and I ended up using the GIMP in order to do quite basic manipulation. Maybe I should consider letting it hunt down and organise the images – assuming it will ever let me have control of them again.