Are Aperture's editing tools similar to or better than PS Elements?

Are the editing tools in Aperture similar to or better than PS Elements?
I'm an amateur photographer - I need images for my web site - plants and gardens, mostly, I have a perennial plant nursery.
I've been using PS Elements 2.0 to manipulate images, mostly rotation, sharpen resizing, adjusting contrast....
Aperture sounds very interesting - the tools for viewing and comparing images sound more graceful and easy to use.
Thanks - paul
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Out of interest, I went over to the Adobe Lightroom forums and found the following:
"Lightroom is aimed at being a workflow for handling raw camera images doing mostly global corrections. Photoshop Elements is meant for handling processed images mostly and allows you to do fine local adjustments
Global means adjustments which are applied to the entire image such as tonal correction etc whereas localized corrections are something like removing a hair out of place, doing composite images, or removing red-eye."
Lightroom is Adobe's soon-to-be competing product, so it's basically equivalent to Aperture (until you look at the details - but that's another topic). The comments quoted above are relevant to Aperture as well.
- Pierre

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