Aperture plunge
I took the plunge and coughed up £200 for Apple’s Aperture application because the combination of iPhoto and Photoshop really just isn’t a useable option for a keen amateur photographer like myself who shoots more than a handful of images at a time.
Initially have to admit that Aperture seems to be really complicated and not as intuitive as iPhoto for very basic tasks - some are even downright impossible; removing keywords from multiple images for example. The UI is very nice and it’s the first time I’ve experienced this high-res pro-app style from Apple. I quickly understood what was going on and the various functions of panels and layouts which had previously annoyed the hell out of me in Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom Beta.
The non-destructive editing and file management make you start thinking more about the pictures themselves and not files, giving you much more freedom to play around with adjustments without any worry about doing something you can’t undo or tweak at a later date.
Using Aperture so far has made me look more carefully at keywords, description and other meta data. I feel like this application is giving me the tools and freedom to concentrate more on photography and less on methods of post-production.
Shooting and dealing with Raw files is a breeze - I don’t see myself shooting JPEGs on my Canon EOS 20D much in future. The colour range and adjustments available from Raw is definitely worth the extra storage required for each shot.
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