Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I have never used Lightroom or what ever the Adobe program is. I got Aperture when I got this MacPro a few months ago and with each release it gets better. After I learned how it worked I really like Aperture. It catalogs all images from the shoot, allows entering of all metadata at download, files the photos into what ever folder I specify, allows FAST editing of images, RAW or JPG. The more I use it the more I like it. It gives conversions that to me are far better than ACR/Bridge was giving me from my Canon files. The colors are more accurate and are very clean. Before I was using iView to catalog images, ACR or Bibble or canon's DPP to convert files, depending on the colors in the image and which gave me the best conversion, and photoshop to tweak. Now I do almost everything in Aperture, spot, adjust for exposure, shadows, highlights, color, and catalog the images. It is a great workflow tool and it has made dealing with huge numbers of files very easy. I love that it non destructively adjusts jpgs as well as RAW files and will edit them almost as well. Oh and did I say it was screaming fast on my machine? If not, well it is. I have a new MacPro with 3 gigs of ram and it humms along very nicely. Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > Sounds like a great thing but the obvious comparison question is how does > it > stack up to APPLE APERTURE? I'm sure that could be found all over but I > know > the people here. And I know some have used both. And both seem to be for > the > same things. No ones chiming in WHAT!?!!?! get Aperture instead so I assume > its not a big deal. And I'm working off laptops not mainframes. That would > be an APPLE drawback as I understand it. They build software to try to make > you get a bigger newer computer. Gates thinks you can use an old Laptop as > far as he cares. Didn't use to be like that. > When Word 4 came out you needed a new computer to run it. > Something like that. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html