iphoto

[cohare]

who uses it?
what do you think?

I am considering geting a imac for my personal use only...which means I would not load my work copy of photoshop on it. So, I would use iphoto for photo editing instead.
Anyone out there use both photoshop and iphoto. How do they compare for .NEF/.RAW file editing?

[Rob Wells]

I use it but its very basic, I have only recently started 365 and playing with my images. I'm currently trailing both lightroom and photoshop elements 9 and if I buy one of those I don't think I will be using iphoto after that.

[elkehochban]

It's very basic, but for now, it's all I need, so I'm happy with it!

[Courtney]

I also use iPhoto. It is great for sorting and has basic edits, but no creative features. I used to love it, but as my skills possess, I crave Lightroom or something else. It's a great tool for editing, but it's just that. I shoot in RAW and that has worked out fine too. You can also download GIMP, but I have not used it yet so can't recommend it. Good luck! PS I love our Mac for personal use and works great for my photographs.

[stephanie dp]

love iPhoto but, as everyone says, it's basic. There's an App for Aperture, which has a lot more features on it - I think someone told me it's $80 - that would give you a lot more PS-like options. (btw, I'm not a big PS-er - mostly a little cloning, dodge/burning so my input maybe be only marginally helpful).

[Deborah DeJong]

I am a die-hard Mac fan. I've used both platforms so am quite familiar with the ups and downs of both. Mac, however, far surpasses anything else in my humble opinion. I use iPhoto to do my initial editing (adjusting colors, contrast, etc) but the more I progress in my photo editing, the more I turn to other programs like Photoshop Elements 6 or online programs like Picnik. I use iPhoto with my photography students because it is easy to learn and you can learn a lot about basic editing, but as I said earlier, the more advanced I become with editing, the less I use iPhoto.

[LisLee]

I use iPhoto to keep all of my photos organized. You can do several effects on a photo, like change it to black and white, sepia, boost the color, fade the color, vignette. You can crop, resize, rotate, and fix red-eye. There is an adjustment tool that will let you change exposure, contrast, highlights, saturation, temperature etc. Very basic stuff. It has an auto enhance feature. It doesn't even come close to the capability that photoshop does with curves, levels etc and there is no layering in iPhoto. It is ultra basic, and in my opinion is more for organizing photos than editing, though you can do light editing. Aperture is 79.99 in the app store and provides the next step up in editing from iPhoto, and uses a different organization, by project. It is a neat program, although I still prefer photoshop because of the capability with layers. I've heard a lot of people like Elements, which might be a cheaper route than full blown photoshop if you need that for personal editing. I import my raw files into iPhoto and it has no trouble handling them.

[Kit Marsden]

I use it on my MacBook... It's not editing software, though - it's more for organising and filing pictures... I use Photoshop for edits, but iPhoto is useful for sorting my pictures into albums, searching for certain dates, and generally keeping things under control...

[Sam C-R]

I use iphoto as my library never to edit though. :)

[Lolz]

i use it as a library and just recently bought the latest and greatest, which is much better than the one i had before, but i stil wouldn't edit in it!

[myla]

Just recently got an imac.. Love it. iphoto is way better than what I had before, but very basic. Have been playing around with Apature, which is WAY easier than photoshop, and as mentioned above is $80 in the app store as opposed to $200 in the store.