[DarrynLowe0qbv]

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Aperture? DOA. You need to write for the 99%.

Like Apple creates machines and software for?

99% should be covered by the other articles. That fact that someone wants to cater for the 1% is a good thing.

[jboo]

Thanks for the article Derrick. Take heart. I work with a team of photographers in a corporate environment. Aperture started out way ahead of Lightroom and Lightroom is just now catching up in many respects, but still doesn't meet the needs of our group. Aperture is a virtual studio manager. The adjustment capabilities may not be as deep as Lightroom, but they are certainly adequate and the image management capabilities far outweigh what you can do in Lightroom. Besides, we roundtrip to Photoshop most of the time anyway. Also, there are some great plugins for Aperture that give you some great editing capabilities. I think the Lightroom fanboys are by and large ignorant of what Aperture can do in the hands of someone who knows the product's capabilities. It really is a pro level app and requires some commitment on the part of the user to fully exploit the product.

[cheeseb]

Nice article. What I would really appreciate is an article explaining which adjustment tools in Aperture affect hue. Like 10 or 20 percent of males, I am red-green colorblind, meaning that my red and green receptors respond to light frequencies that are closer together on the spectrum than usual. I can tell red and green apart if I look closely, but the overall affect means that the picture I see is different from what people without colorblindness see. Any time I apply a hue-related correction to a photo, I have no way to know whether it will look unnatural to others. As a result, I try to accept the hue produced by the camera/monitor/printer while feeling free to make other adjustments. People tell me I usually get it right, but it would help to know which adjustment tools can get me into trouble.

[Okipedro]

I find all this fuss about how Aperture has languished quite funny. One of the things I like about Aperture is that it focuses on image correction that's fast, accurate and efficient. Sure, I'd like to think Apple isn't going to abandon Aperture too, but to say the program is DOA is simply inaccurate.

As a wedding shooter, I've looked at Lightroom; I have Photoshop. But I choose Aperture. From import to final output (books, DVDs, etc.) I can essentially stay in Aperture. And I can do so very efficiently.

I do try to get exposure right in the camera; I do try to do as little post as possible, but when you compare some of Aperture's tools (white balance, for example, and book creation), many are flatly superior to Adobe's. Not all, of course, but many. And the efficiency of using Aperture is, IMHO, unmatched.

Photoshop and InDesign, for example, are powerful tools. But I often find all the bloatware features do little more than get in my way.

Sometimes, a lack of features can be a good thing.

[jwmoreland]

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Aperture 3? Let us know when we can do this in Aperture 4. Most of us have already switched to Lightroom.

The last update had some nice, welcome updates, but yeah, they have done absolutely nothing to build a community around the product, and their mantra of "be the best at everything we do" is getting a little long in the tooth. There are a few things that I really like about Aperture that have me holding out, but unless they do something big in the beginning of this year, I too might be hedging my bets on Adobe.

[IanGosso8n5]

No mention of Capture One? Sad. It has a tight, economical interface and some very good capabilities. 60-day trial is available from Phase One.

[brankocovic]

Thanks for this tutorial, it would be great if you describe how the manage with levels and curves

[bigcloits]

A bit more depth, please! This didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know … which is basically nothing. I was hoping for a little insight into the nature of these tools. I’ve used all of them for many years with no good understanding of what they do, what their operating principles are. I play with the dials like a monkey in a cockpit. It’s fun! But I was hoping that this article would enlighten me at least a little bit by explaining the why and how of them, not just “and then I use the embrightotrastancy tool because it makes it look better I think.”

[ex2bot]

Aperture has a significant advantage (though now less so) over Lightroom: its cost. When I saw it on the Mac App Store at $80, I grabbed it. Glad I did.

[aurelvirlan]

Step 1: "Crop" should be the last one!
Just because if you wanna copy metadata, you should copy all other 6 steps without Crop!
The Crop is individual one, therefore all other are potential for a group of photographs.

[aurelvirlan]

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Aperture has a significant advantage (though now less so) over Lightroom: its cost. When I saw it on the Mac App Store at $80, I grabbed it. Glad I did.

Aperture means great storage and editing program.
Lightroom is an new program trying to do what Aperture Do.
That's all folks.

[pag7]

For more in depth, I recommend Derrick's advanced training at lynda.com.
I switched to Aperture from Lightroom because Apple writes the OS code and I read many instances of photographers losing their whole libraries as a result of the incompatibility of OS updates and certain versions of Lightroom.
I find Aperture great to work with especially with the addition of the complete versions of Nik software. I am sticking with Aperture also because I can get technical support from a helpful person with Applecare. Both are excellent programs. Does everything have to be a competition?