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p.6 #1 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

I am sort of skipping to the bottom, here. So forgive me If I am repeating anyone (I might be echoing Kurtis a bit).

Apeture looks better. I straight up prefer the way that is is displaying compared to LR. The clone tool is very different than Photoshop, but I do prefer it to Lightroom's. The differences with hot keys, Full Screen and such are subtle, but I am still pleasantly suprised. I hated 1.2, back when I tried it.

This is sort of intriguing for me, I'll give the full 30 day trial and be using it for my next few sessions. Can't say that I am as turned off by it as other FM LR users seem to be.

Feb 10, 2010 at 10:08 PM

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p.6 #2 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

Does it batch edit or sync settings from a previous photo that can apply to a sequence of the same setting, lighting and condition?

Feb 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM

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p.6 #3 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

tuannie wrote:
Does it batch edit or sync settings from a previous photo that can apply to a sequence of the same setting, lighting and condition?

It has a lift/stamp tool if that's what you're looking for.

Feb 10, 2010 at 10:23 PM

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Tom - if you compare the same thing with a couple images that have faces in them, you'll see that the Photoshop and Preview colors look more off than they do for a landscape sort of shot like this. Look at the bottom left in your picture and you'll see the only reddish tones in the image are different in PS/Preview than in LR/Aperture.

Here's one with people. Do you see the same difference? This is kind of fun.

This image is copyrighted by the owner

Feb 10, 2010 at 10:35 PM

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p.6 #5 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

Interesting that I see less difference in those than your previous one...

In any case, my color woes -seem- to be solved by using the monitor profile. Looks the same in Preview and everything else for me too.

Feb 10, 2010 at 10:39 PM

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p.6 #6 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

I don't know about you guys but my trial version has crashed three (3) times already in the last 8 hours.

Feb 11, 2010 at 12:56 AM

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p.6 #7 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

Yep I've been using it for a couple of days and it seems to crash quite a bit. Looks like it eats memory and when you run out of RAM it then starts taking swap which causes the entire system to slow down and become unusable. Not good, lets hope 3.1 solves that!

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Feb 11, 2010 at 10:35 AM

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p.6 #8 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

Downloaded it last night everything seemed fine then it crashed so something isn't quite right in this release v2 never bombed out.

Feb 11, 2010 at 11:52 AM

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Tony Hoffer wrote:

Yes. All I'd like to do is view a Full Screen version on my main monitor with the adjustments tab. Then I'd like a grid (browser) view on my second monitor. This seems impossible, but it saves me SOOO much time in LR...

Also, Aperture is way slower for me than LR. Importing and making adjustments seems to take forever.

it's not impossible. 2 ways to do it;

1) have the browser on the main monitor complete with adjustment tabs (if you can't see them press I) and the image full screen on the second monitor. I think this is exactly what you want

the way you do this is tell aperture to treat the 2nd monitor as 'alternate' and then press V a couple of times to just have the browser and nothing else on the main monitor. it kicks butt and is how I've been doing things for years - before LR could use a 2nd screen.

or

2) go completely full screen on both monitors. and use the floating 'H' hud. I think #1 is better for you.

As to speed, I don't know about your system but all the adjustments in aperture are realtime for me - it's a speed demon.

The only thing I wait on is when exporting raws out to versions as jpegs.

Feb 11, 2010 at 12:10 PM

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tuannie wrote:
Does it batch edit or sync settings from a previous photo that can apply to a sequence of the same setting, lighting and condition?

yes either use the lift/stamp icons or option-command-c & v respectively to copy & paste adjustments to multiple images.

Feb 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM

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sejanus wrote:

it's not impossible. 2 ways to do it;

1) have the browser on the main monitor complete with adjustment tabs (if you can't see them press I) and the image full screen on the second monitor. I think this is exactly what you want

the way you do this is tell aperture to treat the 2nd monitor as 'alternate' and then press V a couple of times to just have the browser and nothing else on the main monitor. it kicks butt and is how I've been doing things for years - before LR could use a 2nd screen.

or

2) go completely full screen on both monitors. and use the floating 'H' hud. I think #1 is better for you.

As to speed, I don't know about your system but all the adjustments in aperture are realtime for me - it's a speed demon.

The only thing I wait on is when exporting raws out to versions as jpegs.

Just tried your method. That's not what I was looking for. I still can't get a full screen image beside the adjustment panel AND the browser (grid) on my other screen. I'm also noticing now that making multiple adjustments to photos seems more complicated and with fewer options than LR

Sounds like you haven't tried LR in a while though. You should give it a whirl. For editing only, I think it's a huge step up. For other things, I can see where Aperture has some value.

Feb 11, 2010 at 02:09 PM

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I'm at hour #14 for migrating the library over to Aperture 3 currently. This is rather time-consuming.

Feb 11, 2010 at 07:25 PM

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Ryan Britton wrote:
I'm at hour #14 for migrating the library over to Aperture 3 currently. This is rather time-consuming.

I hope you don't use the adjustment brushes and other local adjustments much, because you can't transfer that over.

Feb 11, 2010 at 07:27 PM

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p.6 #14 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

TTLKurtis wrote:
Ryan Britton wrote:
I'm at hour #14 for migrating the library over to Aperture 3 currently. This is rather time-consuming.

I hope you don't use the adjustment brushes and other local adjustments much, because you can't transfer that over.

This is the automated migration from Aperture 2. I never was a LR user. Can't even imagine how slow that would be! I had to copy the entire library to a bigger drive because it won't migrate it unless you have an equal amount of space free.

Feb 11, 2010 at 07:30 PM

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Ah, I see. I think AP3 has some neat features, but I definitely still prefer LR.

Feb 11, 2010 at 07:34 PM

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Tony Hoffer wrote:

Just tried your method. That's not what I was looking for. I still can't get a full screen image beside the adjustment panel AND the browser (grid) on my other screen. I'm also noticing now that making multiple adjustments to photos seems more complicated and with fewer options than LR

you are right, it's around the other way. this is the way I work though, I like it.

Sounds like you haven't tried LR in a while though. You should give it a whirl. For editing only, I think it's a huge step up. For other things, I can see where Aperture has some value.

I last tried it with version 2 - I hated it. Each to their own.

I don't find adjustments in aperture complicated, I think it works very smoothly.

Feb 11, 2010 at 08:43 PM

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Ryan Britton wrote:
I'm at hour #14 for migrating the library over to Aperture 3 currently. This is rather time-consuming.

My 2.3tb library took about 15hrs to migrate. Most of that I left overnight.

Feb 11, 2010 at 08:45 PM

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ai3x wrote:
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It's about time Apple add adjustment brushes. That's one of THE major reasons I never gave them more than a glance. Definitely going to have to check out the trial.

Not only does it do brushes but it seems it also does pressure sensitivity if you're using a tablet. Pretty cool!

How do you use a tablet, may I ask?

Feb 11, 2010 at 09:34 PM

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p.6 #19 · apeture 3 actually looks pretty good

Well, I picked up a tip in the Aperture Users forums to prevent the app from crashing so often. In the Preferences menu, make sure that Enable Faces is not checked. Some other people turned off the location feature as well, but Faces seemed to do the trick for me, now it works fast, and the adjustment brushes don't lag. I really don't have any use for the Faces feature, but it kind of sucks that I can't run the program with all of its features enabled.

On the other hand, there are four (4) album companies releasing plugins for Aperture. I just redesigned a whole album I had put together in InDesign, and it didn't take me more than a couple of hours to recreate the whole thing in Aperture. That alone makes the switch very compelling for me, not to mention the slick slideshows you can now put together from within Aperture.

Feb 12, 2010 at 01:18 AM

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^^^^ Juan do you know when the plug ins for the albums will be released? Did you just use the standard album creator in custom mode?

Jake

Feb 12, 2010 at 01:28 AM

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