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Any Apple Aperture users? Please chime in!
acoll123:
Forgot to address your vignetting question. I personally like a little bit of vignetting and regularly ADD it to images. Adding and removing it is pretty easy and works pretty well IMO. I'm not sure what kind of distortion you want to correct. I don't think the chromatic aberration tool works very well, maybe I just don't know how to apply it properly . . .
Aglet:
I run an i7 iMac and use nearly everything BUT Aperture. Whenever I try demos it chokes and crashes too often so I haven't even been able to get a sense of how well it works.
I do most of my work in Canon's free Digital Photo Pro.
When i need to do something DPP can't then I use DxO 6 & 7, Lightroom 3, Photoshop Ext. with Nik Suite and Topaz suite of add-ons.
DxO doesn't have as many i-p & o-p file formats so a bit of a kink in possible workflow. Free demo is worth trying.
I tried early LR 4 demo (pre-release) and haven't tried it since, performance was very sluggish but it did work well.
On One Software's suite I've demo'd a couple times with poor experiences on Mac as well.
Not sure if PhotoMechanic is available for Mac but my event-shooting buddy relies on it with his wintel laptop.
DPP, LR, DxO and PS.
If I had to (just) pick one that I had to pay for, it'd be Lightroom, does wonders for the price.
Avro1:
Currently I use Aperture for organizing my JPEG only pics from Australia, about 1000+ . I have a MacBookPro and loaded Aperture before I left for Australia. I used Aperture primarily for organization ,... later I did some post processing in Aperture. I was self taught and found the software easy to learn. It met my needs.
Now I am focusing on shooting RAW only, and have used Digital Photo Professional for post processing. Still not sure if Aperture will be part of my workflow in the long term, or something else LR? perhaps. I like you are looking at buying plug-ins at some point in time.
robbymack:
Aperture, IMHO, is the best all around editing tool out there. I think it handles raw just fine, others may disagree and that is their perogative. It does 99% of what I need, for the rest there is photoshop, but I have seen no need to upgrade that program for several years. The nik programs are great and I also use photomatix from time to time as well.
Michael_pfh:
--- Quote from: Chicorob on July 27, 2012, 04:37:20 PM ---[...]
The only thing I would caution is that if you are not comfortable using the Apple file system beware. They have some great archiving features built in but doesnt use the typical windows file system so dont expect to find a image file outside of Aperture unless you have specifically exported the file to another location. It took me a while to trust this but after a huge upgrade meltdown where I had to start from scratch, I was able to restore everything I had easily and didnt lose a single image. I can archive whole libraries to multiple external disks on top of Time Machine. Lots of redundancy! I am sure Lightroom has similar features, I just havent used it.
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For the exact reason I am using Lightroom on my MacBook Pro.
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