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Lightroom vs. Aperture 1616 Responses
Last post: 1 year ago | Thread started: May 18, 12, 11:33 a.m.
- CincodeMayo
...or just Photoshop? Already have Photoshop, but I'm thinking about purchasing one of the other two for quick photo editing and cataloging. I'm currently demoing Lightroom and I really like it. Aperture is a lot cheaper though, but they don't offer a demo. Is one better than the other? Are presets available for both and easy to make? Pepsi or Coke?
- May 18, 12, 11:33 a.m. – Permalink
- ideaist
I use Aperture, although I hear Lightroom is much better for massive amount of RAW photos...
Are you able to acquire a "sampler" of Aperture 3? I'd say make sure to test both out with a mock card upload and image alteration and use which feels better...
; )
- Dog-earMay 18, 12, 11:53 a.m. – Permalink
- vaxorcist
Lightroom in my experience is far more stable when dealing with large numbers of RAW photos.. like when you're a wedding and corporate event shooter who has over 1,000 pix per gig and multiple gigs per month and you need to hand off projects to other people on a portable hard drive and you may have different versions of Mac OS...
- Dog-earMay 18, 12, 12:08 p.m. – Permalink
- vaxorcist
not to confuse you even more.... but:
Capture One Pro is wonderful, and has given me some of the nicest skin tones I've ever seen from NEF files.... it's also really good at fixing over-exposed flash
If you have a recent Mac, Hasselblad Phocus is FREE, and works with most recent RAW files, IF you are on a mac... Supposedly it uses RAW converters that Apple put into the OS for use in Aperture ... yes, you have to register, but free...
http://www.hasselbladusa.com/ser…Lastly, Corel bought Bibble,renamed it AfterShotPro, and released a FAST, lightweight RAW converter that's a lot like lightroom, NOT as good at fixing overexposed flash, but pretty nice and VERY FAST for an initial edit,and the fastest I've used to make contact sheet PDF's to send to clients for selections... I hope Corel doesn't mess this up.. it's CHEAP TOO...
- Dog-earMay 18, 12, 12:16 p.m. – Permalink
- CincodeMayo
@idealist - I couldn't find a sample of Aperture, but if anyone has one I'd be happy to take it off your hands.
Capture One and AfterShot both look decent too. I'll look into those.
Thanks!
- Dog-earMay 18, 12, 2:14 p.m. – Permalink
- Miguex
I don't know about lightroom because I've used it very briefly, but I've been using aperture since v1 and it does WAY MORE THAT WHAT I WILL EVER NEED.
I'm not a photographer, I'm a guy learning how to use his second slr.
I'm comfortable with my camera, and I'm not the kind of guy that has to have the latest camera just because it's for sale, so then I can take it with me to the park to show off and shoot in automatic mode.It organizes my photos and the photos photographers take for me, I do basic color correction, group them into folders, export to web or print, maybe snap a logo in the corner, that's it. I once used their print photo book layout thing and it came out nice, not sure where it is now. Never had issues with aperture not being stable, and I have used it across 3 versions and in multiple computers, including laptops and desktops.
I hope my "average guy who has a dslr camera" helped you.
I would say look for the tutorials on the aperture page of the site, they used to have a demo before, not sure what happened.- Dog-earMay 18, 12, 6:50 p.m. – Permalink
