TTLKurtis wrote:
On further thought... one think LR is severely lacking is soft-proofing... Wonder if Aperture has this. Because it bothers the -crap- out of me.
It does, but you cannot customize the rendering intent
Ryan Britton wrote:
It does, but you cannot customize the rendering intent
Indeed you can apparently. I FINALLY got my images to look the same in Photoshop as they do in Aperture. I could never do this, no matter what I tried in Lightroom. With LR they always ended up being more saturated because it exports as sRGB I guess?
I had to change the export color profile options in Aperture > Presets > Image Export.
This might make me switch even though I don't like the flow of Aperture. I need color accuracy...
TTLKurtis wrote:
Indeed you can apparently. I FINALLY got my images to look the same in Photoshop as they do in Aperture. I could never do this, no matter what I tried in Lightroom. With LR they always ended up being more saturated because it exports as sRGB I guess?
I had to change the export color profile options in Aperture > Presets > Image Export.
This might make me switch even though I don't like the flow of Aperture. I need color accuracy...
They may have changed the location in the new version, but this is how I do it in 2:
Is it just me, or is it difficult to make a nice looking B&W in Aperture using just RGB? I like having lots of individual sliders and luminance and all that good stuff.
Argh... and the cloning/healing is really not very good at all.
The only thing I'm liking is that I'm getting accurate colors in Aperture. WHY ADOBE, WHY!?
Maybe try one or two of the Nik plugin's, Kurtis. I know, you shouldn't need a plugin to make a nice b&w, but Silver Efex Pro comes with a free trial and has great results.
I think it might just be a matter of learning, or rather, relearning. I've made what I consider to be pretty decent b&w conversions with Aperture.
I dunno... maybe these aren't up to your standards? I won't take offense if they're not, it might be that I have no idea what makes a good b&w for you.
I guess it's just that it's DIFFERENT than what I can do in LR with b&w images. I really like Spencer's B&W presets, for example, in LR. And I've got a couple of my own as well that I made.
What I do really, really like is that my colors look great in Aperture. They look a bit like crap in LR, and that's what I spend the most time fixing in LR. I think if I can get used to Aperture, it may speed up my editing process big-time, as I'd spend less time doing the adjustment brush madness that I'm used to doing on most finished photos...
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okay... so I'm trying to do a little more -scientific apples-to-apples testing- and I just noticed in LR, when you export, you can set a profile, so if I set my calibrated MONITOR profile, then it exports it perfectly. Whereas before, I'd always been exporting as Adobe RGB (since that's what my camera is shooting in, it made sense to me...).
kurtis, prety much everything in aperture has keyboard shortcuts. Though I haven't used LR in a longtime now, personally for me aperture is a lot better workflow wise - I always hated skipping between the various modes/modules in LR.
tony - can you elaborate on the multi monitor gripe? I think aperture works brilliantly on 2 monitors - especially in ver3 where the browser can now go full screeen i.e. 1 monitor has big thumbnails, and the other has the full screen image. You can toggle 'H' to bring up/hide the inspector with all the adjustments.
The main thing I like in ver3 is the speed - I was always a bit grumpy that my big $$ macpro wasn't superfast with aperture but it sure as heck flies now.
btw, you can turn the faces nonsense off in the preferences.
^^^ Sejanus did you download the upgrade or just the trial? Also, will my portraiture plug in transfer to my upgrade?
Looks like it has to ship is why I asked if you downloaded.
sejanus wrote:
The main thing I like in ver3 is the speed - I was always a bit grumpy that my big $$ macpro wasn't superfast with aperture but it sure as heck flies now.
It's funny you mention that, because I was thinking Aperture 3 was slow as heck on my Mac Pro... It's a 2009 Quad Core with, I think, 8GB of memory. And it seems slooooow to me in Aperture compared to LR. Are there settings I need to change to speed it up or something? Or maybe it's because I'm using OS X Leopard and now OS X Snow Leopard?
