Managing/editing photos

what do you think about apature elements to manage/edit photos vs iphoto?

It is not clear what you are asking, but it sounds like you are asking if a combination of Apple Aperture and Adobe Photoshop Elements is better than iPhoto.
For basic photo editing, you can use iPhoto to organize, together with Adobe Photoshop Elements for detailed pixel editing since iPhoto can't do that.
If you work with raw format files from better cameras, or if you are more serious about precise photo editing, you can use Apple Aperture to organize and for advanced corrections to raw files, and then use Photoshop Elements when you need to do pixel editing that Aperture can't do.

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