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Aperture 2

disapointing

Written by LS from Moose Jaw

30/10/2009

lacks a lot of features that i used in elements 7. I should have done more research before purchasing this program.

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Your Snow Leopard Ate My Aperture!!

Written by BW from Chicago

5/10/2009

What a bummer! After successfully upgrading my MacBook to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I was horrified to learn that my perfectly good version of Aperture will not work with the new ops system. It would have been nice to have been warned about this before the fact or have been provided the opportunity to purchase a compatibility enhancement. This really stinks Apple:-(

272 of 301 people found this useful

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Aperture 2: Weak on Performance & Stability

Written by CB from Columbia

4/10/2009

I've been using Aperture for years, updating from 1.x to 2.x and always been impressed with its rich feature set and polished interface. However, there are chronic performance and stability problems.

My library isn't that large (certainly not on par with a pro) and I'm glad to have Time Machine backups because the library has become corrupted on more than one occasion. Unexpected crashes, increasingly slow load times, and periods were it goes unresponsive while seemingly to do nothing (CPU, disk, memory, and network practically idling) are increasingly motivating me to try Lightroom.

56 of 65 people found this useful

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Snow Leopard messed up my Aperture

Written by GF from Needham

11/09/2009

My Aperture program was wonderful until I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Now it has problem's including sending out photo's in the mail program that don't change size and blink on the screen 3 times before it stops the moment.

127 of 148 people found this useful

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NO X3F support.

Written by CH from MACGREGOR

31/08/2009

Doesn't support X3F raw.

I use SIGMA cameras, DP2.

I'm a apple fan, own 5 macs,iphone, ipods etc

Aperture is a great product but giving it a 1 so apple realises what it needs to do.

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still no X3F support

Written by RV from HARDERWIJK

27/08/2009

While Apple still doesn't support X3F Raw-files, this product isn't usefull for me.
Just started with Adobe Lightroom which support X3F.
If you have a superior Sigma camera, don't buy Aperture!
I am a great fan of Apple, but I am fan of digital Sigma camera's too.
It's a pitty Apple doesn't support such a good camera for such a long time.
I hope Apple will fix this problem in the near future.
Aperture is a very nice packet, it's probably the best there is.
If I had another camera I would go for Aperture.
See the compatability-list before you buy this product.

61 of 83 people found this useful

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Mine has a bug

Written by GR from Diamond Creek

21/08/2009

I really like it . . . but, my version has a bug that is incredibly annoying. About every 5 photos when I perform adjustments light coloured streaks appear. I have to quit and re-open the app and they go away. This wastes time. I have paid for and used the incredibly expensive Apple Care to fix this problem. I was advised to do a consistency check and then rebuild the library. This worked for a few days but then the problem returned. I have searched for solutions on-line - again to no avail. Now when I run a consistency check and rebuild the libraries (each task taking and wasting more time) I find that it fixes the problem, but only for a couple of days before it returns.

Ugh!!!! Back to Apple Care and the waiting in line and the painstakingly slow process of finding and "fixing" the problem.

61 of 78 people found this useful

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Impressed

Written by DM from Brandon

9/08/2009

I have been using LightRoom for almost 2 years, and tried Aperture about 6 months ago, I didn't give it enough time. LightRoom has been getting slower and slower the more I use it, I really like the additional tools like gradient shading, but I wanted to give Aperture another shot. I bought Aperture a week ago, and I am very impressed as I really gave the software a work out, I love it. I really do get better results faster in Aperture, and I can make edits at any point in my workflow, something that cannot be done in the LightRoom modules. Truly every aspect of Aperture is excellent, from RAW 2.0, all the way to printing (I love the full screen editing), I even like the Web and book creation, more editable than iPhoto for book layout. I uninstalled LightRoom, all I need is Aperture and Photoshop for all my photography editing and output. Great producr, really brilliant. (Now if Apple will just get camera RAW updates out a little quicker).

92 of 97 people found this useful

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Reduce the time in post production by days!

Written by SF

3/07/2009

As a new convert to Mac from PC I found the transition quite challenging, as well as looking into Aperture. As a pro photographer dealing in weddings the main obsticle that I wanted to avoid is the time spent on post production. It took me 2 days to edit a wedding on a PC importing everything into Photoshop. A workflow tool was needed, enter Aperture. What a powerful piece of software, after going to One to one training at the Apple store with a photographer, after 10 lessons I am now editing a wedding in under 2hrs! Its non-destuctive meaning that any adjustments that are made can be altered without having to make copies and increasing the files on your HD. You really don't need Photoshop as all the adjustments are already within software. The RAW element is something else, easy to convert and can be used with most DSLR. The price for the sofware has been paid for 20 times over already. If you are looking to reduce post production with hundreds of images this is the only tool you need!

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Excellent

Written by RV from Louisville

18/06/2009

I find Aperture to be a fantastic photo editing software program. Please don't think it's Photoshop because it not. I find it does great job with RAW conversion. I also use the B&W conversion with added plugins for great results.
Much easier to use than PS.

106 of 114 people found this useful

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Great App plus Plugins

Written by MT from Calgary

17/06/2009

Hi

After using Adobe (windows) for a few years I dumped my PC and bought an iMac. I got Aperature and bought the NIK complete collection plugins ($300 for those). These work extremely well together and do just about everything you could imagine. If you ever did any work in a darkroom in B&W then will think you went to heaven with NIK Silver Effex & Aperature. I can create awesome shots with this - what could Ansel Adams have done with this! Works very well with RAW. For indoor sports I use Aperature sand Dfine (from NIK) to remove noise in low light.

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Not Photoshop

Written by KD from Albuquerque

14/06/2009

I really like this software but I thought it would do more photoshop type editing. You cannot add text or put borders around pictures. I should have researched Aperture a further but I expected more. It does a lot of cool advance editing and features but I also thought it did photoshop type editing too. I am sure I will enjoy this product more the longer I use it.

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Beautiful software

Written by DD from Bwlchgwyn

12/06/2009

I have used iPhoto and early versions of Elements but I find that Aperture has a nice flow to the work and the interface just suits me and I find it more intuitive than the competition. Full screen mode using the HUD is fantastic and the on-demand Loupe is very useful. RAW manipulation is great and it handles my Canon 450 files with ease. I can do most of my alterations and minor repairs more quickly and easily in Aperture than in Elements. However, if you do need to do something really clever to your photo then either Elements or Photoshop is essential but both of these have a steeper learning curve to match their abilities.

The Apple Pro Training DVD and book is very helpful if not essential and there are loads of Youtube tutorials of varying quality that are worth a look.

Time Machine seems to work well with Aperture 2 but I also back up into a separate Vault.

Highly recommended.

75 of 76 people found this useful

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Easy to use and super powerfull

Written by RM from Sydney

18/05/2009

Aperture 2 is great. Well designed work flow and very manageable file/project structure.

Fairly fast preview system, and easy backup solution makes this software a 5 star product.

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face/places

Written by TS from Aptos

10/05/2009

Aperture is one of my favorite programs and its great how it links right into iDVD. The editing tools are great and easy to use. It would be very nice to the iPhotos faces and places added to its features though

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Why I didn't I look at Aperture sooner?

Written by AD from Highlands Ranch

13/04/2009

I never took much of a look at Aperture until the number of photos I had started approaching the 10's of thousands. I needed a better way to get a grasp on managing them. A number of pro photographer buddies kept insisting I should take a look at Aperture. They kept telling me how wonderful it was for managing photos, but I wouldn't listen.

Finally a couple of weeks ago I became frustrated with my current management system. I downloaded the demo and became enthusiastic about it. Needless to say I purchased Aperture 2 and signed up for Apples One to One. I have been working with the trainers to learn it better and the more I learn the more I like Aperture.

Now I just keep kicking myself for having not taken a look at it sooner.

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Great product!

Written by RF from Northlake

11/04/2009

I am beginners of photo editing and until now I'm still learning this product I've been having few of other product I use before and so far this is the best! One thing I found so very useful was the one that it will upgrade the quality of your image, when i say upgrade meaning like if your image has a 2.5MB after doing some edits from aperture then importing it to iphoto most of my image from 2.5 went up to 9MB to 10MB! its amazing! we all know that jpeg photo degraded its quality everytime we open and save them but aperture enhanced it not just by look but by quality! Now im not worried about my old photos of losing their quality. There's still a lot of amazing thing from this product for me to discover! I only have it for a month now and I'm addicted to it!
Two things I cannot do yet and I'm not sure if it will work for me is the tethering. My canon XSi wont capture any picture when i try the tether. and also when I shot JPEG+RAW photos after i downloaded it comes out blank and says unsupported! but thats not a bog deal i have other software that can hundle it if I realy need to shoot JPEG+RAW images. all in all great product! pricy but worth the money.

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Aperture 2 is awesome.

Written by SN from Myrtle Beach

7/04/2009

If you have ever had to struggle with photoshop or any other photo editing program you will immediately fall in love with Aperture. All of the tools are right there at your fingertips literally one or two clicks away, and its all contained within the simple clean layout with the trademark apple style. Editing photos has never been smoother.

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