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gragegrl said 5:38PM on 2-22-2007
The most important thing of all is the quality of the files it produces, that's the primary function of both products. Make sure you put some focus on that, ensure that there are adequate controls to get a good end result with a decent histogram.
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eric said 8:13PM on 2-22-2007
at the performance side... Aperture lose already... although 1.5 is much much better.... gee there is still a lot more left to be improved...
and who DOES not use Photoshop as a photographer? Is it rational to think Aperture has (will have) better integaration with ADOBE Photoshop than ADOBE lightroom? i doubt it....
so ... Apple sucked... again... and steve jobs can't do anything about it... he woudn't dare to piss off Adobe , like making a "switch" compaign on Aperture.... if Adobe declare there will not be Universal Binary Creative Suite for ever, I assure you 90% of the Tuaw reader will not be Tuaw readers next year....
Hahaha... its hard to open new revenue stream, lets face it steve... its good to be able to distort reality, but, if you can distort everything in it, it won't be called reality anyway!
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Xof said 8:39PM on 2-22-2007
First of all, this website is non existent!
Second of all, what does he know about photography and the photographer's job?? His portfolio is the one of a beginner.
And you're supporting that and hope that it will be credible???
That's a joke right?!
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Jason said 12:07AM on 2-23-2007
lol @ #3, my thoughts exactly!!
As far as lightroom vs aperture, I bought aperture when it came out, my favorite parts are the stack, the loupe, and "smart collections", these are things I cannot do w/o now. The betas of lightroom did NOT have these, so lightroom wasn't a must have. I downloaded the demo when it came out, and found these options.
Adobe took the microsoft approach, and ripped off the best features of an apple product, and combined it with their product. Normally I'd say, go with the original, however Aperture has sorry camera support, taking months for new support to come out, compared to adobes week to a month.
I have been using Lightroom off and on for a while now, I bought a 400d as a backup body when it came out, aperture didn't support it until a couple months ago, lightroom supported it within a couple weeks. I plan on buying the new 1d mkIII and a 40d when they come out, and I'm sure lightroom will support them much quicker than aperture.
On another note, Aperture will likly be coming out with a new 2.0 version soon, and it will make working with other products very hard I am sure. But with Lightrooms current introductory price of 200 dollars, you would about be crazy not to use it. The 1.0 is light years above the latest beta, and adds the features it needs (or rips) to compete with aperture.
I also must say I love the rejection feature, which again was ripped from aperture. I prefer lighrooms keyboard shortcuts to apertures as well. But thats more subjective. I like adding keywords in aperture via a f key, but I prefer pressing 1-5 to rate my images more, so again, lightroom wins here.
Its late and I do not feel like editing this post, so please ignore any grammicatial/spelling errors.
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ralphdkendrick said 5:57AM on 2-23-2007
Good
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ralphdkendrick said 6:01AM on 2-23-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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schmod said 11:07AM on 2-23-2007
Although Lightroom is nifty and all, I can't think but help think that it's the bastard child of Rawshooter and Aperture.
Personally, Rawshooter was the only thing that made me keep a PC lying around. Definitely obeyed the KISS philosophy, and was fast as lightning, even on somewhat mediocre hardware (UI and Image-processing elements were obiously threaded separately -- like they should be).
I haven't used Aperture much. Lightroom's not bad (it's what I use now), but it's incredibly bloated, even on a decent machine. There is NO reason why any application should gobble up over 1gb of RAM during normal usage. The sluggishness of the UI also makes managing the library of photos a somewhat tedious task, and as a result, things get messy quickly.
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Daveed V. said 12:51PM on 2-23-2007
To #4: I agree with much of what you say, but the "ripping off" argument isn't quite right. Adobe preceded Apple with a stacks feature (in Photoshop Elements; not Lightroom) and the similar pick/reject workflow support was introduced by other companies altogether (e.g., PhotoReviewer from Stick Software).
Also, a Lightroom 1.0 tip: Option+digit will assign the keywords associated with that digit in the current keyword set to your selection (kinda similar to the function keys in Aperture, but slighly more friendly to laptop keyboard users).
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ralphdkendrick said 12:52AM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:27PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:28PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:35PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:36PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:37PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:38PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 8:41PM on 2-24-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 1:52PM on 2-25-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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ralphdkendrick said 1:56PM on 2-25-2007
Aperture needed to be improved a lot yet.
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