Aperture
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Just go an apple macbook pro and have always used photoshop on my pc’s love my new laptop but iphoto is kinda weak. Does anyone on here use aperture2? Also any hints for using a mac would be nice also.
Scot, I’d just download the trial version and see what you think since it’s a fully functioning 30 day license.
Version 2 of Aperture is fast, much faster than version 1.5. Download the trial and check out the tutorials at Apple. At $200.00 it does 95% of what you need to do on most pictures, spot,color correct, scale, email etc,etc. You ave to commit to it for a while though. Its nice to get out of the Adobe herd sometimes. I use Photoshop pretty much all day and its great software but Aperture is very cool place to start and then if you need to move to Photoshop to do extensive image editing you can. I haven’t used Lightroom since he beta expired but I have committed to use Aperture for all my small format work as the starting point in the image editing and prep process.
David King
PhotographerIf you or a family member are a college student, you can get a copy of Aperture 2.0 from the university book store for only $69. One drawback though: when you buy academic software, you are not able to buy upgrades for that software in the future. But for me, saving the $130 was worth it.
DustyOne other question and this one may be stupid so forgive me. I have a 10mp digital slr and when I upload photos to my pc into photoshop or bridge the file siizes are usually between 6 and 8 mb with camera set on large fine jpeg. In aperture with the same camera the file sizes have been between 2-4 mb why is this am I compressing them more somehow?
Labrati how long do you have to wait for your G9 to store a raw file and be ready to shoot again?
The feature set in Aperture really pretty complete. You can spot crop color correct and retouch images. The new vignette feature is nice too. If you want to do local correction using a selection or mask you have to go into Photoshop or something like Capture NX. If you’ve got guys that shoot for National Geographic using it it must be a pretty good tool, check out the video at Apple. I would think if you were doing editorial work, weddings or sports it would be a great front end workflow only going to Photoshop with your “selects”. You could use Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop too, or Capture NX for Nikon shooters.David, haven’t timed it exactly.. but its got to be 2 seconds or more.. preview off and everything… great little camera and great to have RAW there.
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