Thanks for that advice, Ian. I am giving it a go today. Although I
go to work on Saturdays during the Winter, I have an incipient cold
and cannot fly. While my colleagues do their bit with their students
in the air I shall play/work at Aperture on my MacBook in my office.
I should be interested to see how good it is at making web pages ...
Chris
On 8 Dec 2006, at 11:23, swisspace wrote:
> The fact that adobe hadn't released a price for lightroom and the fact
> that some commitment to each product is involved I decided to give the
> new version of aperture a trial now they have realised that is
> shouldn't need mega expensive hardware and run even on the new minis.
> I think bot apple and adobe misjudged the market, there are a lot
> of non
> pros after this sort of thing as well.
>
> I was impressed, from my point of view they both offer about the same
> functionality. performance wise I think they are about the same
> although
> I think my import into aperture was slightly faster and I found that
> part nicer to do with aperture. Aperture has the loupe which is also
> quite a nice feature, but I think lightroom is slightly easier to use,
> but I would certainly not dismiss aperture. It seems to me that
> they are
> merging in functionality and performance - which I guess is to be
> expected as they are intended to make the digital workflow more
> efficient.
>
> Forget previous versions of both and download the latest. The
> libraries
> add about 10 percent to the disk space used if you build the previews
> for both products, but with disk space cheap the rewards in
> performance
> outweigh that for me.
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