nadeem
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Any macheads/ digital photographers tried out Aperture yet?
http://www.apple.com/aperture/profiles/?buissink
http://www.apple.com/aperture/profiles/?buissink
walti
Registered user
Freind went to a demo...
It was good enough to make him want to come over to the darkside and become a Mac user!
I haven't seen it yet, but going by his review and if you have a G5 with gallons of memory (2GB + ) then it's really very good. It does what iPhoto, Nikon Capture, and some of Photoshop do, all in one package, and it seamlessly links into Photoshop for the rest of it's features.
It was good enough to make him want to come over to the darkside and become a Mac user!
I haven't seen it yet, but going by his review and if you have a G5 with gallons of memory (2GB + ) then it's really very good. It does what iPhoto, Nikon Capture, and some of Photoshop do, all in one package, and it seamlessly links into Photoshop for the rest of it's features.
walti
Registered user
What my mate said...
Fantastic presentation from two Apple guys probably helped but, and I hate to say it, it was all so intuitive. You at last have a full light table and loupe setup. By full I mean a huge workspace where you can group slides together (stacking as Apple calls it). Either automagically based on timestamp/bracketing mode, or just by grouping them yourself. Brilliant for those shots where you burn the equivalent of a roll of film just to get *the* shot. So, you have these stacks of images that you can dynamically expand/contract on the lightbox, line up side by side etc. And then you have just the most amazing implementation of a digital loupe you can imagine. Utterly jaw-dropping, caused spontaneous applause from an audience primarily composed of non-Apple zealot pro photographers.
The other feature I really liked was their method for applying raw image adjustments - very visual, none of that batch conversion bollocks (although you can do that in the background if you wish), very fast, very easy to do side-by-side comparisons of before and afters.
Also some nice project management options - one-click archive/backup, a really well implemented album creation feature (including the ability to do any adjustment you would do elsewhere in the image actually on the page itself). Seamless (and I really mean seamless) integration with Photoshop and of course all this processing is non-destructive - differently implemented to Capture as you never (unless you want to) save your image adjustments to the source file.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff I've forgotten that was also ubercool, a lot of which is also in Capture. Imagine Capture with a few hardware-specific features deleted (eg. CA correction, image dust-off (although Apple's implementation for that is better), fisheye correction), with a lot of stuff added and the whole thing given an engine transplant, twincharged, and then NOSed to the maximum.
Yours for £349, you probably won't need Photoshop ever again, all the obvious tools are in Aperture...
Quite simply the most stunning piece of new software I've ever seen. An over-used term, but its a quantum leap - the biggest since Photoshop arrived...
Fantastic presentation from two Apple guys probably helped but, and I hate to say it, it was all so intuitive. You at last have a full light table and loupe setup. By full I mean a huge workspace where you can group slides together (stacking as Apple calls it). Either automagically based on timestamp/bracketing mode, or just by grouping them yourself. Brilliant for those shots where you burn the equivalent of a roll of film just to get *the* shot. So, you have these stacks of images that you can dynamically expand/contract on the lightbox, line up side by side etc. And then you have just the most amazing implementation of a digital loupe you can imagine. Utterly jaw-dropping, caused spontaneous applause from an audience primarily composed of non-Apple zealot pro photographers.
The other feature I really liked was their method for applying raw image adjustments - very visual, none of that batch conversion bollocks (although you can do that in the background if you wish), very fast, very easy to do side-by-side comparisons of before and afters.
Also some nice project management options - one-click archive/backup, a really well implemented album creation feature (including the ability to do any adjustment you would do elsewhere in the image actually on the page itself). Seamless (and I really mean seamless) integration with Photoshop and of course all this processing is non-destructive - differently implemented to Capture as you never (unless you want to) save your image adjustments to the source file.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff I've forgotten that was also ubercool, a lot of which is also in Capture. Imagine Capture with a few hardware-specific features deleted (eg. CA correction, image dust-off (although Apple's implementation for that is better), fisheye correction), with a lot of stuff added and the whole thing given an engine transplant, twincharged, and then NOSed to the maximum.
Yours for £349, you probably won't need Photoshop ever again, all the obvious tools are in Aperture...
Quite simply the most stunning piece of new software I've ever seen. An over-used term, but its a quantum leap - the biggest since Photoshop arrived...
nadeem
Guest
Thanks Walti, I've been hearing good things about it and from what I understand, you need a pretty good graphics card with core image capabilities - this is what speeds it up more than the memory from the reviews I've read...I'm going to pop into the apple store tomorrow and play around with it...
btw it's only £218.55 in the Apple Education Store. Seeing as my wife is a teacher - she can order it. If you have anyone in full time education in the house, you also qualify...this is one bit that Apple tend not to publicise too much...
btw it's only £218.55 in the Apple Education Store. Seeing as my wife is a teacher - she can order it. If you have anyone in full time education in the house, you also qualify...this is one bit that Apple tend not to publicise too much...
walti
Registered user
Indeed...
iPods have been purchased at reduced rates here too....
iPods have been purchased at reduced rates here too....
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