Restoration of old photographs
Hello! I have been looking at purchasing Aperture for personal photographic reasons. I am now in need of a program that will allow me to do some restoration work on my old family photographs. I need a pretty good program to do this. I have read on some discussion forums that Aperture does not do a great job in this area as compared to Photoshop. Does anyone have any input? I would love to go with Aperture, but cannot buy both programs. I need to purchase the best program for restoration work.
Also, any input on Photoshop Elements for Mac?
I look forward to your replies!
This is not really Aperture's core competency. It can do color adjustments, and some healing, but it's nowhere near as powerful as Photoshop for hardcore restoration work.
The thing about Photoshop is that it's very, very complicated with a steep learning curve. Depending on how much time/effort you want to put into learning, Elements may be a better fit -- but since I've used Photoshop but not Elements (at least, not Elements since version 2), I can't say what it's lacking.
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