Wolfe_boy wrote:
Kurtis, in my experience there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts for most of the common stuff. If I remember, they're pretty much 100% customizable too.
It is, except for the play/pause button on Mac keyboards as of Aperture 2. It intercepts that to start/pause a slideshow instead of letting it pass through to iTunes to handle music.
paparazzinick wrote:
after playing with the demo. think ill stick with LR
Yeah, there are a few things that immediately are HUGE deals for me.
First, the multiple monitor support is awful. There's no way to edit a full screen image and look at the grid of images, unless you want your tools on the opposite screen
Second, there's no way to look through your adjustment history. You can either revert back to the original adjustment and that's it.
Third, the editing tools seem confusing it their layout. Everything that takes 1 or 2 clicks in LR take 4 or 5 in aperture.
So, looks like I'll stick to LR for editing....
However, I'm still going to look into this as a potential tool for album design.
So, Faces is the big selling point of this thing? It looks like a glorified version of iPhoto. There is no way this thing can go head to head with LR3.
Just another consumer app for the Mac fanboys to fawn over.
Tony Hoffer wrote:
Yeah, there are a few things that immediately are HUGE deals for me.
Second, there's no way to look through your adjustment history. You can either revert back to the original adjustment and that's it.
Third, the editing tools seem confusing it their layout. Everything that takes 1 or 2 clicks in LR take 4 or 5 in aperture.
So, looks like I'll stick to LR for editing....
Yeah I -hate- that about Aperture. Why must it take SO MANY clicks. So stupid. And Apple supposedly makes things simpler... They need to study LR and get their heads out of their butts.
I also really dislike the floating palette things. Why the hell would anyone want their tools floating on top of their images? Ugh.
And yeah I forgot about the adjustments history thing.
TTLKurtis wrote:
Am I the only one that can see the FACES thing becoming very annoying? Hope I can disable it.
Not sure about Aperture but you can't disable it in iPhoto. It will spit and stutter for hours trying to profile all the, "faces" in your collection. iPhoto took 12 hours to do this for me. The only solution is to let it finish and just ignore it.
Watching video about adjustment brushes right now... man... why do they make everything take SO MANY freaking clicks. That's the thing I hate about Aperture, it's just so much slower to use than LR.
Typical Apple UI... very mouse intensive.
LR rules for me. It runs so well I'm convinced Adobe didn't write it.
hmmm okay I love the album stuff I just downloaded Graphi's new plugin. Pretty cool. But the image editing feels really odd. I don't know if I am just used to LR2 but it is slower to get the same thing done. I am with Tony, I will look into this a possible album layout etc.
Ric L. wrote:
So, Faces is the big selling point of this thing? It looks like a glorified version of iPhoto. There is no way this thing can go head to head with LR3.
Just another consumer app for the Mac fanboys to fawn over.
For me it's the more subtle things:
- The ability to save/use presets. Prior to this version, support for those was on a per-adjustment basis.
- More advanced slideshow controls and the support to export as a video file. This can remove some extra programs from the workflow when needing to make these.
- Adjustment brushes. LR was miles ahead of Aperture by putting these in about a year prior. Hopefully these are just as useful if not more.
- Curves tool. Levels just doesn't cut it. This is my most used adjustment in Photoshop.
- Syncing libraries. There are two of us so I'm really, really hoping this totally eliminates the current manual process.
As a regular Aperture user, I'm looking forward to the same things that Ryan is... localized raw adjustments without needing to use plugins, custom presets, and a curves tool.
In broad terms, LR and Aperture are pretty much equal. I don't see anything here that would make a LR user switch, but I don't really see anything the other way either.
This thread is a weird microcosm of "new toy-ism". First page and a half, excitement, anticipation, trying it out, maybe I'll switch, this could be really usueful. That quickly devolved into meh, no improvement for me, my current toy works just fine, (particular feature) is useful but don't know that I'd switch for it, etc.
As an Aperture user, I'm excited for these changes, because as someone said, some of them are long overdue.
Tony Hoffer wrote:
Yeah, there are a few things that immediately are HUGE deals for me.
First, the multiple monitor support is awful. There's no way to edit a full screen image and look at the grid of images, unless you want your tools on the opposite screen
Second, there's no way to look through your adjustment history. You can either revert back to the original adjustment and that's it.
Third, the editing tools seem confusing it their layout. Everything that takes 1 or 2 clicks in LR take 4 or 5 in aperture.
So, looks like I'll stick to LR for editing....
However, I'm still going to look into this as a potential tool for album design....Show more →
tony good points... I used Aperture the day it came out then dropped it as soon as lightroom hit. never went back. this might tempt me if the album layout is worth it. also maybe for slideshows and my gateway to facebook uploads and well ok maybe for organizing my portfolio into my iPad when I get it.
one question. has anyone figured out a way to export an album a something other than pdfs? my album companies do not use pdfs. or does finao?
paparazzinick wrote:
tony good points... I used Aperture the day it came out then dropped it as soon as lightroom hit. never went back. this might tempt me if the album layout is worth it. also maybe for slideshows and my gateway to facebook uploads and well ok maybe for organizing my portfolio into my iPad when I get it.
one question. has anyone figured out a way to export an album a something other than pdfs? my album companies do not use pdfs. or does finao?
If that's your hangup, a PS action will fix that in 2 minutes.
I've been waiting for Aperture 3. I currently use Aperture 2 and LOVE it. The improvements and updates sound awesome. No need to "test" for me, I'm placing my order right away.
Wolfe_boy wrote:
As a regular Aperture user, I'm looking forward to the same things that Ryan is... localized raw adjustments without needing to use plugins, custom presets, and a curves tool.
In broad terms, LR and Aperture are pretty much equal. I don't see anything here that would make a LR user switch, but I don't really see anything the other way either.
This thread is a weird microcosm of "new toy-ism". First page and a half, excitement, anticipation, trying it out, maybe I'll switch, this could be really usueful. That quickly devolved into meh, no improvement for me, my current toy works just fine, (particular feature) is useful but don't know that I'd switch for it, etc.
As an Aperture user, I'm excited for these changes, because as someone said, some of them are long overdue....Show more →
Amen. As an Aperture user - I am really excited about the changes. Looking forward to it.
ok editing question... anyone have any LR2 presets that they sucessfully got to change over to aperture?
i ahve some kick ass presets I have in LR2 and was trying to get pictures to export with settings attached and cant get aperture to keep the changes when bringing them in. any ideas? tried psd's and dng's but cant get them,
