Aperture vs. Lightroom: what do the pros use?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 16, 2007 at 6:28pm
It’s been exactly two years since Apple threw its hat into the professional photography ring with the introduction of Aperture. Adobe responded shortly thereafter with the introduction of Lightroom. So, how does the pro photography market look now?
InfoTrends recently surveyed 1,026 professional photographers in North America to determine which software they used for raw file processing. Here’s what folks reported (as noted by John Nack, senior product manager for Photoshop, on a blog entry) that highlights new statistics:
° 66.5 percent use the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in;
° 23.6 percent Lightroom;
° 5.5 percent using Aperture
To be fair to Aperture, it might be helpful to remove Windows users from the equation for a moment. Even after doing so, Lightroom’s usage among Mac-based pros is still nearly double that of Aperture (26.6 percent vs. 14.3 percent), according to InfoTrends.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
