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One Response to “Differences and Similarities between iPhoto and Adobe Photoshop and Imageready?”

1. Jonas M. Rogne
   March 9th, 2009 at 7:28 am

   iPhoto offers easy photo management for normal users. It also offers some simple/basic image editing options.

   Adobe Photoshop is for professional photo editing (or any other raster images) and offers a vast amount of powerful tools. It can do all the imaged editing iPhoto can, and WAY WAY more. It does not manage your Photos, and thus can’t really be compared to iPhoto.

   The Adobe program for Photo management is Adobe Lightroom. It is also intended for professional users (and works great with raw images). One advantage Lightroom has over iPhoto is that it does the image adjustments “non-destructively” – meaning you can do as much adjustments you want, and always go back and tweak/adjust it – even bring back the original. The downside is that the edited files can’t then simply be copied directly to friends etc. without being saved/exported (quick and easy tho).
   Also worth noting is that Lightroom should works neatly together with the other Adobe programs, like Photoshop.

   I would recommend Lightroom (and Photoshop) to any professional user, or someone who really cares about their photos.
   For your average consumer, iPhoto is fine.

   Personally I just use Bridge+Photoshop, as I simply arrange my photos into folders as “albums”, and don’t shoot much raw footage.

   Ps: Image Ready no longer exists. CS2 was the last version. The functionality of Image Ready is now covered by Fireworks (and Photoshop can export animated gifs itself now).