Aperture & Lightroom alternatives

FX Studio Pro
Pixelmator

 

PhaseOne Capture Pro I think it's called? I don't think you need a phaseone back to use it, the program will work with all major DSLRs.

Also DxO Optics used to have a similar product, don't know if they still do. I used to use them but they seriously botched a couple releases of their software and I moved on.

 

Pixelmator competes with Photoshop Elements, not Aperture or Lightroom. The latter focus on organizing photos while Pixelmator is a photo editor.

 

Bibble
CaptureOne
DXO Optics

or you can just use ACR and Bridge. I use Aperture and CaptureOne, honestly C1 doesn't work so well by itself. all the plugins for Ap/LR mean you can get by without PS.

both of those are completely different.

 

I've read that ACDSee Pro is very capable, though I've not used it personally. Current page looks to show a significant pricing discount for Mac.

I have used ACD's Canvas X for many years, and can attest to the terrific power and flexibility of that program. Shame that's not currently supported (though it still runs quite smoothly on 10.6.8); I suppose it's an open question have far they'll go with ACDSee.

 

I've heard favourable things about Darktable from some POTN users. Link