Lightroom vs Aperture
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- MrD
which is better?
- Meeklo0
I think that is a question that only you can answer, based on trial use of both tools for your own specific applications.
- Duckphat0
Aperture for me. Runs faster on Leopard and version 2 is going to be great.
- MrD0
yah i will try out the trial...
i wonder if Lightroom has closer integration with the CS
and wonder how Aperture works with adobe products
- madirish0
works very well. my friend teaches the Aperature sessions aroudn the country and they use it exclusively with photoshop.
- menos0
could this be a case of
'same shit, different century' -ism?
...really don't know... i thought aperture had almost vanished all of a sudden...
- MrD0
...really don't know... i thought aperture had almost vanished all of a sudden...
menos
(Oct 26 07, 10:09)thats what i thought cause they laid off almost the whole dev team for it.
and most of them went to Adobe beginning of this year
- danthon0
I went with lightroom so I could share catalogs between mac and PC. I reallly like it.
- menos0
thats what i thought cause they laid off almost the whole dev team for it.
and most of them went to Adobe beginning of this year
MrD
(Oct 26 07, 10:10)ahhhh... this could be, my friend!
so basically the two share sme/similar technologies then?- No its prolly like Motion and AE, where Motion is more GPU accelerated and core image drivenmodern
- MrD0
hmmm
i will try it out
but maybe adobe since its been around longer
aperture might get canned again...
but at both $99 still cheap
- madirish0
aperature is going no where, believe me...
- scoops0
Just got LR and it's bad ass.. Much faster on my new intel imac than aperture trial i downloaded... shamefully faster in fact.
- danthon0
lightroom is def badass.
Although there are some interesting limitations. The biggest one that screwed me up is the 10,000 pixel size limit. I do tons of pano work and now I have to size images to 9,999 pixels in order to import them. Boooooooo
- Sickman0
Although there are some interesting limitations. The biggest one that screwed me up is the 10,000 pixel size limit. I do tons of pano work and now I have to size images to 9,999 pixels in order to import them. Boooooooo
danthon
(Oct 26 07, 13:35)same here - although i havn't tried resizing to 9999pixels
- danthon0
same here - although i havn't tried resizing to 9999pixels
Sickman
(Oct 26 07, 13:51)works like a charm ;-)
- Meeklo0
I haven't seen or used lightroom yet, but I heard that its faster than aperture.
I do have the new aperture on an intel mac and I have to say, the fact that you can now reference files to external drives (as opposed to the first version) makes it a lot faster to browse large libraries.
- ok_not_ok0
Adobe Camera RAW
- ninjasavant0
I've been test driving the Aperture 2 trial and the Lightroom 2 Beta for about a week now and the verdict is:
Lightroom pwns Aperture hands down.
- Mind sharing why? I currently use Aperture 1.5 and was thinking about upgrading but may jump to Lightroom if it's really a better tool.nearestexit
- lightroom has better interface and work flow and better quality over all in editing and managingMrDinky
- sikma0
I keep hearing this but haven't had a chance to try either. What gave Lightroom the edge?
- ninjasavant0
^ Ease of use, power of the tools, how easy the tools are to understand and use, smart collections, etc.
It's a lot of little things that I'm sure Aperture might do but LR just had a wow factor with me that made it the clear winner almost at first glance.
- ismith0
I use Aperture 2, but I only use it for cataloging purposes. I very rarely need to edit photos since I'm so used to film, although I do occasionally adjust WB. The only time I really need to do selective coloring and such is when using it for a project at which point I'll have it in Photoshop anyway.
- One of the things that brought me to LR was the fact that I like to rifle through a bunch of editsninjasavant
- on multiple pics and jumping back and forth between whatever and Photoshop was kinda annoying and time intensive . . .ninjasavant
- intensive. LR helps speed up my workflow and leaves PS for the intense edits.ninjasavant
- That's my point; my only edits are the intense ones for specific projects. Otherwise, I'm fine with just having a pretty browsing interface.ismith
- interface, which to me is Aperture.ismith