Aperture 2
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Aperture 2
Not for Everyone
Written by CT from Durango
Dec 4, 2009
I've a prosumer type photographer and was excited to add Aperture 2 to my new Mac when I bought it in 2008. Since then, I've uploaded all my photos using Aperture's import feature. I've also used Aperture to organize my photos. While I've been pleased with the software's editing capabilities, I don't recommend it as the best way to organize and back-up photos. When I'm inside Aperture, life feels pretty organized as I've created folders, albums, and projects to put photos where I can easily find them. The problem is the way Aperture organizes them on the hard drive. The folders created inside Aperture don't always show up as folders on the hard drive. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. I've not been able to figure this one out yet. The problem it's created is that it makes it difficult to back up my photos on the hard drive in an organized fashion. To avoid boring everyone with the details of this, I'll simply say that I got so frustrated with the messy organization created by Aperture that I took all my photos off the Mac and put them on my 8 year old Windows PC so I could re-organize them. Believe it or not, this is easier in Windows that it is in Leopard. The other thing Aperture does not do is allow direct burning of DVDs. I've read this complaint from others as wells. Apple has a work around for this on their website, but it's really not designed for large scale backups. This just seems like a ridiculous oversight for a high-end photo processing software package. Bottom line is I would NOT recommend this product.
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Aperture 2
No sharpening tool?
Written by ST from Brunswick
Nov 4, 2009
Is this not important tool? Or it's extra, not neccecity?
But overall, i like the interface...21 of 45 people found this useful
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Aperture 2: Weak on Performance & Stability
Written by CB from Columbia
Oct 3, 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.57 of 66 people found this useful
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Snow Leopard messed up my Aperture
Written by GF from Needham
Sep 10, 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.
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Aperture 2
Mine has a bug
Written by GR from Diamond Creek
Aug 21, 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 79 people found this useful
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Aperture is great... but... ... ...
Written by SR from Altadena
Nov 14, 2008
I tried the 30 free trials of both Aperture and Lightroom. Most of that time I found myself in Lightroom because Aperture did not have the RAW update for my camera yet. I have to say, Lightroom is quite impressive. Works like a champ and has some really nice non-destructive masking tools which I used constantly. But so great was my allegiance to Apple, when Aperture came out with the update for my camera I fled from Lightroom and purchased Aperture with the thought that they'd be pretty much the same product and that Aperture would link into my Apple work-flow much better. Which turns out to be true. It's great. But seems to be missing some really important items, the biggest is non-destructive masking and editing of specific parts of my photo. Aperture has NO masking. Aperture does have a lot of plugins which allow you to do this (at enormous expense; some plugins cost more than Aperture itself) but the plugins are "destructive." The plugin actually launches another window where you tweak and adjust but when you save, a duplicate TIFF version is saved in Aperture. At this point you are hosed. You cannot go back into that plugin and tweak any adjustments you made. You have to do it all over again. It's a HUGE weakness. If I'd known ahead of time, rather than just jumping on the Apple wagon when the RAW .cr2 update showed up, I would have remained in Lightroom. So the bottom line is this: Aperture and Lightroom both have the same basic adjustments for photos (RAW being the most important), so they're on even ground there. Aperture excels at metadata and organization tools which makes it feel more like a great database program with the most basic photo adjustment tools thrown in. Lightroom isn't so great at handling huge libraries, but has much better control over image and is much less "destructive" to your images. In the end, for me, it doesn't matter how well a photo developing program allows me to find my photos. What matters is the end product: the photo. Lightroom, for now, really seems to have the upper hand. So, Aperture, it was nice knowing you (and too bad I spent the 200 bucks) but I'll be moving back to Lightroom (and spending another 300 bucks). Oh, well. You live, you learn, you spend...
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