Trying to compare Aperature with Adobe Elements for Mac

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Actually, your choice should be between Aperture and Adobe Lightroom. Either way, you'll still need Photoshop. Maybe you could get away with using Elements with Aperture or Lightroom, but I doubt it.
Aperture (and Lightroom) are for organizing and dealing with your photos (all of them). Photoshop (and Elements) are for dealing with indivual photos. I for example, have imported all 80 thousand of my digital shots into Aperture. But I can't make my photos look like my photos in Aperture, so the "finals" take a trip through Photoshop, where I burn the corners, dodge people's faces, etc. Photoshop can't/won't catalog, organize, deal with your collection. But Aperture can't/won't do the things PS can on individual shots.
So you may well ask whether you can use Elements instead of PS, but Aperture and PS are different beasts, and you probably need both.

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