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Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. From capture to output, you work directly with your RAW files, never having to first convert them into another format before viewing, adjusting, organizing, or printing them.Whether you're a fashion, wedding, sports, portrait, fine art, commercial, or editorial photographer, Aperture's color-managed workflow and flexible design tools will help you easily create stunning prints, customized contact sheets, elegant books, and web pages as beautiful as the images you capture.
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Introducing the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers. Built from the ground up for professionals, Aperture offers an advanced RAW workflow, professional project management capabilities, powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, and versatile printing and publishing.FeatureProduct FeaturesTechnical detailsMac compatibilityY
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great application BUT,
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This review is from: Apple Aperture 1.1 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
read on for the BUT below. First let me cover the good stuff, because there is an awful lot of good stuff and only a fraction of it is covered below.
It's Apple, so it combines a great looking customizable interface with functionality. Anyone familiar with using iPhoto will see initial similarities. Fundamentally, Aperture is a RAW processing program and it does exactly what it says on the package - you can make a whole host of basic adjustments without degrading the image and you can have mutiple versions of the same image all with different adjustments, without having to save several different copies under different names taking up inordinate amounts of space. Aperture just has one actual copy of the image and then saves all the different adjustments, taking up a fraction of the space. You can also have the same image in a number of different Albums or Books and again it's just the 1 copy of the image taking up space on your hard drive. Aperture is packed full of excellent tools and features. Special mention has to go to the monochrome mixer which is superb, I virtually never use the mono tools in Photoshop anymore, the quality in Aperture is far superior and much easier to use. Editing and sorting your images is quick, easy and fully customizable. The book publishing tool is also a great feature of Aperture (also available in iPhoto, but this is much better). Overall, Aperture is intuitive, powerful and great value for money... BUT, and here's why it only gets 3 stars: you need a very fast computer to run Aperture effectively. There's a reason why the graphic on the System Set Up page of the manual shows a Mac Pro, because that's what you're going to need to avoid excruciating thinking-time after each click of the mouse. But how many of us can really afford to buy a new computer just for the sake of one application?? I recently bought a 20" imac intel duo-core and have both Aperture and CS2 installed and when both are open (which they are most of the time) I have to close all other applications, including Mail, and my mac slows to a crawl. Simple tasks like selecting an image to work on requires an average of 30 secs thinking time; opening an image to use in CS2 can take around 1.5 mins (40MB tiff files). Applying adjustments in Aperture is stymied by 30 secs + of thinking time, which is incredibly frustrating as everytime you tweak the slider you're waiting another 20 secs to see the result. Aperture open on its own (and I mean on its own, close all other apps incl. iTunes, Mail, Safari) works tolerably well, thinking time is much reduced. I saw Aperture being demonstrated at this year's Focus on Imaging and the speaker kept saying the words "instant" and "bang" e.g. "using Aperture, adjustments can be applied instantly, just move the slider and, bang! the adjustment is instantly applied" and in the demo it was. In reality though and without a Mac Pro, doing stuff in Aperture is far from instant, more like instant + some thumb twirling (+ tea break, if you have CS2 open too). So to summarise: excellent program but you need the hardware to match, which let's face it, is on the pricey side. If you're prepared to put up with the thinking time, buy it, or if you have cash to burn, buy it and a nice new Mac Pro to run it on.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great software,
By It makes downloading the pictures from the camera and organizing them very easy, no fiddling with different tools to do your work. Also reviewing, rating and rejecting pictures is very easy and intuitive. The stacks feature is neat, meaning that you can stack multiple shots you've taken from the same subject and then pick your preferred one. The others will be kept in the stack as reserve/fallback shots. Work that would take me hours before (comparing the shots and selecting the best ones) I did in minutes with Aperture. The editing tools are intuitive and easy to use and it integrates with the Mac apps and .Mac to allow you to publish the pictures very easily. It won't give you advanced image editing tools like Photoshop does, though, so depending on what you have to do you will still need Photoshop (I'm running PS CS3 now), but it does minimize the need for it in a great deal. I'm running it on a MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz CPU, 4GB RAM, the NVidia GeForce 8600m GT GPU and a 7200 RPM 200GB hard drive and it performs well, even though my laptop gets quite hot and noisier than usual with the fans working full time. It is not sluggish though and considering that this is a laptop after all it is pretty good performance.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (26 customer reviews) 53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Updated Aperture library format in 1.5,
By I. Miller "Digital Photographer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Apple Aperture 1.1 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
As mentioned around the web in various places, the updates in 1.5 (and 1.5.1) are significant. One the the most important updates is the the ability to manage referenced files (as apposed to importing files into the library directly).
I work with RAW files from my Nikon D200 which average around 10mb each. I currently have nearly 4 thousand photos in my library. Aperture keeps the thumbnails for the originals (masters) in a vault on my MacBook Pro while I store the actual raw files on a collection of external Raid 1 drives. The new tools in 1.5 make it easy to migrate images from my laptop to external drives and back as well as backup the entire Aperture database. The local thumbnails let me find images I want without having to mount each of my external drives. I can find the photo I want and pull up where the raw version is currently stored. As one of the others mentioned, go ahead and give LightRoom from Adobe a try, and while your at it give the free 30 day trial of Aperture a go as well. If you work with a lot of images especially from a mobile platform you will love Aperture. I worked with both back to back and found the Lightroom interface cumbersome and annoying at times. The stepwise workflow of Lightroom seems to be focused on the development process of a single photo. Aperture on the other hand makes it feel very natural to make quick adjustments or add metadata to a full shoot of photos without the extra fuss of switching modes. Features such as stacks and the Loupe tool are indispensable when organizing many similar photos. In the end I would give Aperture 5 stars except I believe it should not be so ram hungry. With 2GB of ram in my 2.33Ghz MacBook Pro the performance is acceptable but it does not leave much memory for running other applications. Based on the performance updates in 1.5.1 I think the Apple developers may wring some more performance out of this application yet -- when that happens a 5th star may be in order. And as for Lightroom, I am sure that if Adobe thought it was actually ready for prime time it would not still be in beta. 25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Switched From Lightroom,
By M. T. Bullington - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Apple Aperture 1.1 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
When I purchased my MacBook Pro I had no intention of switching to Aperture, but downloaded it and tried it out of curiosity. I have since sold my Lightroom license and am purchasing Aperture. There are specific reasons for that decision.
First, I really like the feel of Aperture 1.5 better than Lightroom, it is more intuitive to me, and the whole project thing with light tables works great. I have ~10,000 images that I never did get organized with Lightroom and was able to do so in the first few days on Aperture. The intergration with other apps on the Mac is great - Aperture 1.5 (not 1.0) creates hi-res previews of all my images (see speed note below) and I can work away from my files to update my website, email proofs, design, etc. I keep all my photos on an external drive and leave them at home with me. When I am out of the house working, which is most days, I have my entire library with me without filling up my MacBook Harddrive. Once I need the hi-res file to either edit or send to a customer, I plug back in at home and work seamlessl. With lightroom I was not able to work unless the files were with me. I had expected Aperture to be slow, but it is not slow. It is very comparable to lightroom, really no difference to mention. There is ONE RALLY BIG CAVEAT ABOUT SPEED with aperture -- when I imported those 10,000 images, the import seem to go fast, maybe 20 minutes or so. BUT, it is not done at this point. In the background Aperture is creating thumbnails and hi-res previews (which can be shut off, but I need them). That is alot of processing for any program, and in the background it ran for HOURS, without me knowing. When I closed Aperture it paused the process, when I restarted Aperture it resumed the process, so for the first few days that I used it, the speed was slow. Then I realized what was going on -- look in the window menu for SHOW TASK LIST, and you will see the progress. If others did not know this was going on and tried to get immediately to work in Aperture, they would think it was very slow. I wonder how many people have dumped thousands of photos in and used it for 30 minutes and then uninstalled it assuming it was slow? Lightroom handled this much better, showing the progress in the corner and also was faster by default with the 1:1 preview turned off. In conclusion, Aperture works great for me on my MacBook Pro 17". I love it and I'm sticking with it. I do miss the vibrabce slider from lightroom, no question, and the develop module in lightroom is better, though not enough to stop me. I jump to photoshop cs3 when I need the vibrance controls. The best advice I can offer when making the decision between Lightroom and Aperture (or others) is spend the 30 days with them and see which one gets you WORKING and getting things done. For me, that is Aperture. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better image management tools,
By BakariC - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Apple Aperture 1.1 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
I've been working in both Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom, and though I really like Lightroom's simplicity and design, I have to say that Aperture wins out in terms of image file management, which is very important for me as a wedding photographer.
Aperture is a little harder to learn because it's more fully featured than Lightroom, at least for now it is. Both applications offer very similiar features, but the smart folder and keywording features of Aperture are for more useful than the Collection features of Lightroom. Aperture is less linear than Lightroom. You can work in various different moduals without having to switch back and forth between gallery and digital development moduels like in Lightroom. I also like what Apple is trying to do with the solutions workflow in Aperture. It's almost possible to complete an entire wedding project without having to leave out of Aperture, except to do additional enhancement work in Photoshop or for laying out an album. Aperture has an album layout and creation feature but its printed albums are not as high end as you find outside the program. Both Aperture and Lightroom have their pros and cons, but for now Aperture is still head of the game in terms of digital asset management (or DAM, as it's popularly called.) |
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