Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Aperture and Lightroom on a Mac
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Tue Feb 13 08:05:26 2007
References: <200702130407.l1D465i3007015@server1.waverley.reid.org> <53A27BB0-D40E-4414-B55F-385B0E76D59F@optonline.net>

I have Graphic Converter, and a fine program it is, but use Photoshop 
CS for most of my imaging work.  CS ripples right along on the iMac 
G5 and straightens photos in a flash.

Dick
Boston MA

>
>If you have a Mac, a lot of preliminary work, straightening, 
>rotation, etc. can be done using the amazing shareware program 
>GraphicConverter (www.lemkesoft.com). It is the Swiss Army knife of 
>image processing programs and is updated regularly. A copy probably 
>came free with your Mac.
>
>Larry Z
>
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>  Feb 12, 2007, at 11:07 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
>
>>
>>"Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>>I just gave Aperture a try on my iMac G5 (1.8 GHz - 1.5 GB RAM)) and
>>>discovered two things:  Aperture doesn't do DNG and at least one
>>>function - straightening - is so slow as to be unusable.  I didn't
>>>explore beyond that. *Two* strikes and they're out, in this case.  I
>>>won't be buying Aperture.
>>>
>>>The final beta version of Lightroom was also sluggish on this iMac,
>>>but faster than Aperture.  I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone
>>>whose has the released version of Lightroom and can compare it's speed
>>>with that of the last beta version.
>>
>>
>>The final release has not actually been released. It is only available
>>as a pre-order. The last beta is the last release as of now.
>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Dave




In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Aperture and Lightroom on a Mac)