Photo editing on a Mac on the cheap.

[Alex S]

Thanks. I will.

 

[Derek Wright]

Alex - Aperture would be fine - if you can put more RAM in then do it and also set Aperture up so that it does not create Previews.

 

[garyi]

Aperture will run fine, however it is slow compared to other apps out there, just the nature of what its doing I am afraid. Also all the options for organising get a bit confusing.

 

[Patrick Dixon]

I've been playing with Picasa the last couple of days, and it seems to do more-or-less what I want. Basic controls, but crop and resize is easy, as is a bit of sharpening etc.

UFRaw seems good for proper RAW processing, although Picasa will do RAW files too.

 

[garyi]

I must say that off the cuff picasa for mac seems very good. I am not really into the organising my own folders thing, but if I were picasa would seem to be the logical choice.

I have not established if editing is non destructive though?

 

[topa]

I just very recently took my first ever RAW pic, so I'm no expert, but have a look at this, it came with my LX3, it's downloadable for free too, and does what you want on a mac:

http://www.isl.co.jp/SILKYPIX/english/p/