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Software, Arpeture Has any one with a film based camera used the software Arpeture? What do you think, compared to PS. Is better than, or a partner to PS? Tamara K Hidahl
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robert G. Fately |
Tamara, I haven't used Aperture, but my understanding is that it is more akin to Adobe's Lightroom than to Photoshop. In other words, Aperture and Lightroom are designed to help with the photographer's workflow more than deal with advanced adjustments of the image (both are able to do basic things like contrast and brightness control). Adobe offers the beta download for Lightroom on its website - so I've been using it for a month or so now. I have to say I like it, though it took a bit of getting used to. On his website Luminous Landscape (www.luminous-landscape.com) Michael Reichmann does a pretty nice thourough review of Aperture and also of Lightroom's beta...it's worth a read. Again, neither of these programs is designed to replace PS. Basically, they allow you to import the plethora of image files (in raw and other formats) and bring them into a workspace that behaves like a light table. So if you took 45 shots of that bird on a dog's nose in the park (whatever) and want to efficiently determine which on of them is print-worthy, you can review them in various ways with these tools. Comparing image 22 with images 32 and 36, for example, is easy once you've given an quick once-over to the whole bunch and decided that these are your best candidates. Since the beta if Lightroom is free (Mac only right now, but I assume you have a Mac since you're asking about Aperture anyway) I strongly suggest that you give it a shot - and read what Mr Reichmann has to say as well.
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robert G. Fately |
Wow - it's been almost a year since this thread started! Things seem to have changed. I actually got the trial of Aperture in December and have since purchased the program - and I do like it. As a result, though, I dropped Lightroom. However, I just found out today that Adobe has announced the "real" version of Lightroom (special price $200 now, $300 after March or something) and apparently there are features in the full new version of Lightroom that were not in the betas at all, like version tracking. My point is, it might be worth another look to see if Lightroom (or Aperture) is to your liking. As for replacing Elements with either, I don't think this would be desireable or necessary. Lightroom and Aperture deal with sorting and ranking issues very well, but don't have the extreme manipulation capabilities that a true post-produciton program like Photoshop is designed for. So, if your style is to do a lot of post processing (beyond cropping, resizing, and some simple color correctiona and sharpening) then you'll be using Photoshop (Elements or CS) even after getting Lightroom or Aperture.
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