Aperture for Mac: the best alternatives

Apple's Aperture is one of the best image managers for Mac OS. We show you the best alternatives in this practical tip.

Aperture alternative: Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom

Adobe's solution is the image manager Lightroom and its editing program Photoshop.

• Professional tools such as radial filters or area correction help to improve your photos.
• If these tools are not enough, Photoshop is directly embedded in the Lightroom image manager and you can save the images in Photoshop. continue editing.
• Lightroom automatically evaluates geoinformation and can sort images according to where they were taken.

Aperture alternative: Corel AfterShot

Another aperture alternative is Corel's AfterShot program.

• RAW processing works noticeably faster with AfterShot than with all other programs.
• Images can be output in batches. This saves you time when you want to save or share multiple images in different sizes.
• AfterShot allows automatic adjustments and saves changes so that you can always access the original image.

Aperture alternative: iPhoto

Apple's iPhoto is the little brother of Aperture and is significantly cheaper for 15 euros.

• iPhoto and Aperture use the same image database on your Mac. This allows you to edit your aperture images in iPhoto and vice versa.
• iPhoto also works as an Apple program with Photostream and iCloud.
• You can use iPhoto to distribute your pictures directly on social networks or send them as e-mails.
• It is also practical to be able to order prints and albums directly from your pictures.