Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Both Aperture and Lightroom are compliments to Photoshop. Neither offer the kind of manipulation that Photoshop provides: layers, masking, etc. Aperture is lagging behind Lightroom at this point in my opinion. I have both and have been using Aperture regularly. I use Lightroom less often although I feel that it does more things for manipulation that photographers like than Aperture does. Aperture excels at making books - I have done more than a few and the results have been very positive. I gather from reading Luminous Landscape that Lightroom may be released "shortly" - and MacWorld would be a natural for that. I suspect that a major update to Aperture will happen as well, perhaps to be discussed at MacWorld. Having these products out there is great for the breed. Certainly Aperture prompted Adobe to pull the code for Lightroom off the back burner. And Aperture offers Apple a way to make their own image-editing software, perhaps one aimed at photographers (and film makers) designed from first principals for that use. There's a lot in Photoshop I never even THINK about using and, as someone on this list who has worked in the field, there are some non-layer-based programs out there in the high-end of the film industry which could serve as models. Maybe that would kick Adobe into a new more-useful product! Adam On 1/6/07, Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote: > I haven't tried either Aperture or Lightroom. > > For photographers, are they replacements for Photoshop? > Or are the adjuncts to Photoshop? > > Jim > > Wade Heninger wrote: > >snip< > > > > > > Lightroom is my current workflow tool for all photo stuff (Raw, JPEG, > > Tiff > > Scan). > > > > Yes, its got things I don't like (and I'm going to be working on fixing > > them) but it really has the tools to be productive and get the results > > you > > want. And this from someone who spent the last several years working on > > the > > Bridge and just finished redesigning ACR for CS3. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >