These days, I totally don't recommend Photoshop for photographers. Yes, there are certain kinds of defects that can only be fixed, and wholesale bit surgery that can only be performed, in Photoshop. But for 80% of photogs iPhoto or equivalent will do what they need, and for 90% of the remaining 20%, including most PDML types, I suspect Aperture or Lightroom will float their boat just fine.
I use Lightroom, but watching the general flow of discussion, suspect that Lr/Aperture is more or less a wash these days; or it was until Aperture suddenly got cheaper with the arrival of the App Store. -T -- 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.