For those who don’t know him, John Nack is an Adobe Photoshop Guru. So naturally, when John decided to publish a poll “Aperture vs. Lightroom: What do the pros use?” many will think it will be biased…

That’s why it’s a good think InfoTrends ran the poll!

They recently surveyed 1,026 professional photographers in North America to determine which software they used for raw file processing.

And the winner is…

• 66.5% using the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in
• 23.6% using Lightroom
• 5.5% using Aperture

John points out that photographers haven’t started to abandon Photoshop as a result of using tools such as Lightroom.

Photoshop usage overall remains in the 90% range and the vast majority of photographers seem to understand pretty clearly the different nature & roles of the apps, and they continue to view Photoshop as a must-have part of any serious arsenal.

These numbers include Windows users, so it’s not just a Mac Community trend.

I think that the reason why Lightroom is way ahead of Aperture comes from the great advantage that if you use Adobe Camera RAW to edit your photos, the changes are usable in Lightroom (if you are using CS3) and vice-versa.

And let’s face it, like John pointed out, many photographers didn’t drop Photoshop to use Lightroom.

So the question now is… what are YOU using??!!