Aperture isn't dead
The last few days have been a real roller coaster
for Aperture. Has it been scrapped? Did Apple rush it out the door? Will we ever seen an update for it?Well, today we saw the release of Aperture 1.1.1, and that is a good sign. Continuing on that trend John Gruber, that Daring Fireball, pestered his sources at Apple until they finally told him that none of the engineers on the Aperture team were fired; they all left the project because of lousy management (the manager was fired though).
Finally, Maccentral sat down with Kirk Paulsen (the Senior Director of Pro Applications Marketing at Apple) and he assured Maccentral that Aperture is alive and well.
So, fear not prosumer/pro photogs, go forth and Aperture!
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notorious said 5:48AM on 5-05-2006
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/04/28/is-apertures-future-in-question/#comments
told you so
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Bob S. said 10:43AM on 5-05-2006
They've never discontinued Hypercard, either.
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Alex H said 12:03PM on 5-05-2006
haha, hypercard... I just had a lot of childhood memories flash through my head...
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Jonathan Payne said 12:18PM on 5-05-2006
Aperture 1.1 is a vast improvement over 1.0.1. As an iPhoto replacement it is getting there, the only issue being performance. It's features are so addicting that I have scrapped my 10k iPhoto library in favor of Aperture. This is amazing considering how much I have ripped into it since the 1.0 release.
Performance wise it has a long way to go. Feature wise it's excellent and a very good start. Those features will absolutely improve over time as will a few UI issues. I thought keywords were a big disaster, for example, and now I know how to use the Keyword Control Panel and it's never been easier with ANY photo management system to deal with keywords. But it's easy to be confused by them at first.
The performance issues are astonishing but the improvement between 1.0.1 and 1.1 make a big difference. It's best to operate on individual projects, even though it is obviously necessary to operate on the entire library from time to time. It's those times you will be very frustrated with the performance.
Don't give up! Once you get used to some of the features, the work flow, the keyboard control for most of the important features, the RAW image handling and non-destructive edits, there's no going back to iPhoto. And for a lot of people there's no going back to Photoshop and other related tools that make the process unbearably slow.
JP
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Eric said 5:32PM on 5-05-2006
Is it worth trying out for an amateur like me that shoots in RAW, but doesn't have thousands of pics (yet)? My "workflow" is usually downloading pics to disk from a card reader then using Adobe Bridge+RAW+Photoshop to clean up the good shots.
Also, does anyone know how well it runs on a dual G4? The requirements never list it although it lists the single G4 and the dual G5.
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joe said 5:36PM on 5-05-2006
Eric, I tried it on my PM 1.6 w/ 1.5 gig of ram and the 64 meg default card (don't remeber which one) and it was unusable...I think you might want to wait and upgrade before giving it a try...
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EndaFarrell said 7:29PM on 7-06-2006
I'm using AP1.1.4 and I still think that the metadata is poor in comparison to iViewMediaPro. The main problem is that I, like many prosumers, have a MacBook Pro with some external hard drives which stay at home. My library will not fit on the MBP, and as AP needs to have it's one library on one drive, I can't use it as a long-term storage option. An option for an (externally mounted) archive library plus a (locally mounted) working library would fix that.
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