Aperture 3 or Photoshop Elements (Mac) ?

Hi.
I'm 17, and I'm a budding photographer... I was just wondering, what would be the best programme for editing photos (simply) ? - Aperture 3 or PhotoShop Elements?
I know Photoshop would probably be best, but I can't afford £600/£700 for a disc or however much it is!
Cheers!

Hi scottalter,
They are different categories of programs. Comparing them isn't meaningful. PhotoShop (and Elements) is a pixel-level editor. Aperture is a digital asset manager, with some photo editing (not pixel editing) built in. Aperture is akin to Lightroom.
The photo editing means that you start with something (your original photo), apply a change to it (adjust brightness for example) and end up with a different picture. You can only modify your photos in existing, predefined ways. PhotoShop allows you to add things to your photo that it didn't start with.
That being said, Aperture may still be the tool for you. Its management is great, and there are a lot of adjustments that are probably exactly what you are looking for.
If you can express what it is you are looking for, we members of the forum can probably tell you if Aperture is going to do it or not.
nathan

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