Aperture 3 vs. Lightroom 3

[Sheiky]

Well since everyone is such an Aperture fan here I should show my love for Lightroom!


Truly Mark, no program is better than Lightroom! Apple products are for fashion-junkies who don't know what they're talking about, trust me they go crazy by seeying the Apple-logo where it's all about. Aperture might bebetter looking on the outside and sold in a nice stylish package, but true love is in the inside: Lightroom.


Buy Lightroom and find out that your photos will win contest after contest. Your photos will be more vibrant, better looking, better selling, better everything! Everytime I use Lightroom I feel like a kid in a candystore, it's too good to be true!


Right!....back to seriousness []


I never used aperture and honestly I have no clue what it looks like or how it functions. I only used Lightroom and DPP and I must say that I'm absolutely not a fan of DPP. Lightroom gives me a total package and I'm happy with it. The library-editor tab-thingy is something that also bothered me in the beginning, (to be honest, sometimes it still bothers me a little) but after a while it functions very good. For the more basic editing and the multiple file-adjusting it works great. For the more serious work you use the editor. Anyway I like that they give both options, easy and advanced, although I had rather seen it in 1 single mode with advanced-tabs or something.


I must say that I like the workflow and the integration of multiple other programs like Photoshop, Photomatix and others.


The thing I also like are the Library with importing and especially the exporting to files, but also the exporting to online-services and flash/html slideshows and webtemplates.


Anyway I'm a satisfied user of Lightroom. It works for me so I won't be making a change to Aperture anytime soon []


Sorry for the true Apple-fanatics between us, please don't take it all to serious [A]


Jan

[bob williams]

I just have to jump on this band wagon----Yes, I am a huge Lightroom fan; and though I have never used Aperture I understand it is quite good as well. I have to say that the complete workflow layout and designis what I love the most about Lightroom. From Upload to output, lightroom has most anything the average photog needs or wants. Even when it comes to adjustments on specific areas of a photo, I would rather use the adjustment/burn/dodge tools in Lightroom, than jump in to layers in CS 3.4.5.......


Normally, If my photos are so bad that I need CS/PS to repair, adjust or re-fabricate them, I just don'tbother.Of Course, I also don't have to make my living from my photographs---If I did, I might have a different opinion.


I will say, That I do wish Adobe would put a nice selection of easy to use frame templatesin this software. There are plugins that allows you to put borders on your photos, but no frames that I can find. So, If I want to frame my work for presentation, I do have to use photoshop and orsome 3rd party software.





Bob

[neuroanatomist]

If I want to frame my work for presentation, I do have to use photoshop and orsome 3rd party software.

I didn't think I was that old, but when I read "frame my work for presentation" I thought of prints and gallery frames, not Photoshop and Powerpoint.


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[bob williams]

I didn't think I was that old, but when I read "frame my work for presentation" I thought of prints and gallery frames, not Photoshop and Powerpoint.

Ya Know, Your right, That sounded strange to me as well when I typed it --I guess it is an age thing. Anyway, I got to looking and found a frames plugin for Lightroom and am getting ready to download the trial and give it a shot. It's OnOne's Photoframe pro 4.5 and can be found here: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=18

[bob williams]

I didn't think I was that old, but when I read "frame my work for presentation" I thought of prints and gallery frames, not Photoshop and Powerpoint.

Ya Know, Your right, That sounded strange to me as well when I typed it --I guess it is an age thing. Anyway, I got to looking and found a frames plugin for Lightroom and am getting ready to download the trial and give it a shot. It's OnOne's Photoframe pro 4.5 and can be found here: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=18