Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find Aperture to be a very useful program. The revisions to it have made substantial changes and this next version will deal with the most pressing of issues. Still no curves, I think, and that's a real miss, but otherwise it works very very well. I have Lightroom Beta 4 on my system as well but I freely admit that two programs attempting to do much the same thing leaves my mind not knowing EITHER of them very well. With Lightroom changing so much I'm just sticking with Aperture. One of the things I really like about Aperture are its keyboard shortcuts which make reviewing images very quick. On the other hand the RAW conversion of Photoshop still gives me more control and feedback that the similiar function inside Aperture. (throws up hands - nothing's perfect - and laughs ruefully). I'm glad they have a Flickr export plug-in with the upcoming version. Adam Note: I'm not sure of the story about disbanding the original Aperture team - what it means or if it is really true. Much of Aperture is built on the heavy-weight internals of OS X 10.4 just as Apple's Final Cut Pro is built upon the heavy-weight internals of QuickTime. Getting the GUI right is something Apple has done very well in Aperture. The metaphor works for me. In comparison Lightroom is......confusing.....because it's substantially different - like waking up in Australia and having to drive to work all tired and everything is on the wrong bleeping side and the sun's in the wrong place.... ab On 9/27/06, Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > If you're buying a Mac just to use Aperture you may want to Google Aperture > right now. There's still allot of disgruntled Mac users who bought > Aperture. > Abode's Lightroom gets better reviews. > > Chris