Aperture Tricks

Seems a bit abrasive and fanboy-ish to me. Why the attacks on photoshop? Even Apple themselves don't claim that Aperture is meant to replace that image editor, it merely supplements a professional's workflow. Why else is there an "open in external editor" option?

Don't get me wrong, I do use Aperture and, at with the current updates, it gives me with many powerful and versatile tools for RAW import and editing. Photoshop, though, is still essential. Aperture does not do HDR, alpha channel editing, selective color, complex masking, layering, and many other vital tools. Nor should it.

To copmare Adobe's recent updates of several tools and runtime errors to the fairly significant Aperture upgrades is disingenuous. Photoshop is a massively complex set of integrated tools, tools which are always being improved upon and added to. The site claims: "after nine versions, you'd certainly expect something closer to perfection than this wouldn't you?" Compare the functionality of the fairly straightforward pixel editor that was version one to what we have now. Stuff like HDR wasn't even conceived of even a few years ago, much less in 1990. Adobe can get away with updating and tweaking these newer features because it already has a flawless set of core features. Aperture's initial release, inarguably, had quite a few fundamental flaws and an inflated price. 1.1.1 has solved a lot of this.

As for the tips portion of the blog, they mostly focus on general file organization and features that reflect broad OS X functionality, not so much unique tips or tricks one can exploit in Aperture alone. Hopefully the site will start to focus more on actual tips and less on the political side of software development. Enjoy the product, promote and explore its deeper functionality, but not at the expense of absurd brand loyalty wars.

(Sorry about the length of this post. A comment really shouldn't be longer than the article it informs upon.)