Apple has just updated Aperture, its own professional photo editing and management software, with some bug fixes and a few new features, including the ability to upload photos, go full screen in OS X Lion with the native full screen button, toggle gestures, and load slideshows in the background. Improved stability and a few enhancements make this quite a worthy update for Apple’s highly-praised professional photo editing app.

Here, we get a bit of lesson in the difference between iPhone apps and Mac apps, and what happens when you move one to the other. FX Photo Studio for iPhone is a wonderfully fun and powerful app that makes it easy to jazz up your photos and share them with friends. FX Photo Studio for Mac does exactly the same thing, and although it’s more efficient, it loses its element of spontaneous fun.

I love Skitch. I’ve been using the screenshot/image editing application (in beta) for two years, and it’s become an indispensable part of my online life, allowing me to do screenshot and snap webcam photos as well as edit, annotate, upload and share them. It’s one of those applications that does the things I need to do so elegantly that I keep waiting for Apple to buy it and include it as system software.

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Adobe earlier today announced Photoshop Elements 8. Normally, when you see the word Photoshop followed by something, it means a dumbed down version. Obviously, Photoshop Elements is aimed at the professional Photoshop crowd, but I had the opportunity to see a press conference on Photoshop Elements 8 on Monday, and trust me…there’s nothing dumb about it.

Pixelmator, which claims to be “Image editing for the rest of us,” comes full of all sorts of different features for a relatively small price ($59.00) compared to other graphic design/image software of this nature such as Aperture and Photoshop. If what the app contained before wasn’t enough to cause you to buy it, the more »