Comments on: Yet Another Aperture Fanboy Post

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:50:53 +0000

Wow great results – I haven’t moved to 2.0 yet, but it looks and sounds like a winner. An accomplished photographer friend of mine also uses lightzone:

http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/index.html

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:27:41 +0000

@rob: it flagged you as an evil spammer again. I’ve sent a support email to Automattic to see if they can clear it up.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:08:10 +0000

@Raj: I’m finding Aperture2 generally faster, but the Loupe is really frustrating now – it feels sooooo much slower. Makes operations that use the eye dropper selector (like white balance) a pain to use.

But, I’m really loving the Definition and Vibrancy sliders, and being able to scroll through thousands of photos without any pause

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:50:52 +0000

I’m finding Aperture 2 is so much faster than 1.5.6 and the recovery/definition tools are amazing at pulling out blow out details. Before, you would have to compromise quite a bit to get the same effects that you do with just those two sliders.

By: Rob Wall

Rob Wall — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:37 +0000

Jen’s blog thinks I’m a spammer too. Is there something I don’t know? Maybe it’s my breath. Don’t be afraid to tell me the truth – I can handle it.

Agreed about the non-destructive editing. What I like about Aperture 2 is that I can use iPhoto for cataloging and import directly into Aperture to make use of all it’s goodness. It seems like an awkard workflow though. I might change that around once I get a permanent copy of Aperture.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:38:32 +0000

@rob – not sure why, but Akismet thought you were an evil spammer. Hopefully it won’t do that again… The thing I LOVE about Aperture as opposed to iPhoto is the nondestructive processing – I can toggle any processing effect in any order, and the image is rerendered from scratch – I don’t need to create new versions of the image to retain various steps. This makes it sooo much more powerful for playing around with processing, because I don’t have to worry about messing anything up.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:04:12 +0000

Jen, are you shooting RAW on the fancy new XTi, or JPEG? If you shoot RAW, you’ll always have to do some post-processing, but if you shoot JPEG, the camera does its best guess about how to process it as it bakes the RAW data down to the JPEG file that gets saved.

By: Rob Wall

Rob Wall — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:52:35 +0000

Wow – nice photo, especially after the tweaking. I am convinced that Aperture is a necessity for my photographic life. Why do you prefer it for photo management over something like iPhoto 08. Automatic events is my favourite feature. Anything similar in Aperture?

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:51:18 +0000

I need that. I’m about to give up on the cam because it doesn’t show what I see.