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Aperture Now Shipping
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steve_hill4 said:
Interesting, because I've used Colorsync, but never Coloursync. I'm pretty sure Apple being an American company tends to use American.
American |??merik?n| adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants : the election of a new American president. relating to or denoting the continents of America : the American continent south of the tropic of Cancer. noun 1 a native or citizen of the United States. [usu. with adj. ] a native or inhabitant of any of the countries of North, South, or Central America. 2 the English language as it is used in the United States; American English.
Westside guy said:
My PowerBook checks out, but I'm still wary of the specs. Does anyone know if Aperture is available to try out in the Apple Stores yet? I really want to see how it performs on the new PowerBooks before I drop the cash to get it for myself. If there are any issues with the 1.67 GHz PowerBooks then my 1.25GHz might not be up to the challenge. In that case I'll probably wait for iPhoto '06 to see what it offers. I've got time enough to wait for the Intel 'Books, hopefully by then the hardware in the portables will be strong enough to support Aperture.
~Shard~ said:This may indeed be the first "Pro app" I actually buy. I have never considered myself to a be a Pro user, but some of the features of Aperture are really attractive to me - heck, even just the high res photobooks would be nice to have!
I'll have to read some of the initial reviews and make my decision based on those. And who knows, perhaps I will be treating myself to Aperture for Christmas!
I use a program called i-View. I have over 9000 pics in it, works great, and only costs 100 bucks. It lets me do most of the touch ups, including removing pixel noise, so I seldomly use photoshop now...
Really a nifty piece of software...Check it out before dishing out for Aperture
physics_gopher said:
$10 says Apple won't install these on anything of their mobile systems. Or if they do its only going to have a couple pictures in the app.
Lacero said:
Isn't Lacero a cutie pie? Smart, too. Which leads me to why I think Aperture will be a hit with pro photographers: it's the total package!
I have to say, while I agree with Lacero, I think that speed isn't really what enticed me to preorder Aperture.
The main selling point for me is the workflow management and catalog capabilities under one roof, so to speak. I have different software which more or less accomplishes all of the things I need after a large shoot, but nothing in one complete package that (it seems) can do it so elegantly.
The speed with which the software (apparently) can work with RAW files is an important selling point though, and I'm sure I will appreciate this after using Nikon Capture/Editor for so many years. It has improved but it is still clunky. I don't even like to work with RAW files in Photoshop CS2, for that matter.
Well, I'll know a bit more tomorrow after FedEx makes a stop at my house.
Yes, but that's American English, not American. It is a subset of the English language. Check what it says when you install a Mac or change language settings, it says English or English (country), so Mac OS and all other apple apps officially operate in English, whatever subset they use.Chobit said:Interesting, because I've used Colorsync, but never Coloursync. I'm pretty sure Apple being an American company tends to use American.
American |??merik?n| adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants : the election of a new American president. relating to or denoting the continents of America : the American continent south of the tropic of Cancer. noun 1 a native or citizen of the United States. [usu. with adj. ] a native or inhabitant of any of the countries of North, South, or Central America. 2 the English language as it is used in the United States; American English.
Photo processing you might read as being able to organize your pictures, then filter them, by this I mean more global changes like color correction, contrast adjustments, sharpening, etc. ... things you might do in a traditional darkroom. Photo editing is what Photoshop does where you are working with multiple layers and you can make more radical, localized changes using masking tools, etc. Where you would do things like replace a sky in one picture for another sky in another picture, or remove a person or telephone wires from a shot. Aperture does not really do this sort of thing (although it does have a rubber stamp sort of tool), at least that's not an emphasis for it.themacman said:
Xenious said:
HAHAHA. *coughs* Ummm no...It will never happen. An Apple product that tries to take on Photoshop will prob make Adobe pull the product and kill the Mac for graphic designers in the future. Apple is going to tread a fine line just as they do with MS Office. Both apps are critical for Apple.
I think office will become less critical for apple in the future, but agree with the general point. Adobe were supporting Apple years before they supported Windows too, so to kill off a relationship like that over an app like Aperture, (if we assume it eventually became bigger and included most of Photoshop's features too), would be a mistake. What Apple need to continue to do is look for those gaps in both the hardware and software markets and sieze them. They were one of the first to add HD features to their video editing software with Final Cut, produced the biggest mass market mp3 player, added their full support to wi-fi from its early days and have time and time again reinvented the desktop computer. Remember, with something like Photoshop, users want familiarity and consistantcy, if Apple bring out a rival for it, more people are likely to stick with Photoshop than Apple and if Adobe decided to switch to Windows only, it would be a major blow.SiliconAddict said:
Apple aren't stupid after all. If they wanted to kill off Photoshop, they would have almost certainly released Aperture as such an app. Since they haven't, it looks unlikely, (not that it ever was in the first place).
Looks like a great app for the high volume shooter. I ahve my own wierd method of keeping track of my pics, its called slides. Love my Velvia.
Once you try a nice RAW image workflow, your Velvia one will start to fade!ThomasJefferson said:
Since I began the switch to digital in 2000, my EOS-1n's almost always sit on the shelf. And I never even finished off my last bulk purchase of Velvia - probably have a dozen rolls still in the fridge that have long passed their expiration date. THAT never used to happen when I was shooting film, as I could never buy it fast enough.
steve_hill4 said:
Sorry, that remark was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Anyways, "American" is synonymous with "American English" So the OPs comment about the software being in American is basically correct. Some people dislike the distinction, but to each her own.
Xenious said:
Yeah, it's a big deal to those who have many images to process and catalog, especially in RAW.... And no, Apple does NOT need to reinvent the wheel (ie, Photoshop) because there is already a very satisfactory Photoshop. PS does what it does very well. What many of us are hoping is that Aperture will indeed complement PS and integrate some processes so that photographers don't need to have three or four different software programs in order to achieve their goals. A smoother, more integrated workflow will save many photographers a chunk of time and then we can be out there shooting more photos.
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physics_gopher said:
I hear you on this one. I am planning to use Aperture in my iMac (Rev B, 2 GB RAM) but am leery of sticking it into my PB (Rev E, 2 GB RAM, 7200 rpm) even though it theoretically could run the program. I'm figuring that I'll be continuing to use the iMac for image processing/cataloging anyway, just stuck PSCS2 on the PB in case I want to do a quick-and-dirty image edit on the road, but really am not intending to be doing much in the way of heavy-duty digital imaging on it, so why burden the PB with Aperture, especially if that program would be balky and slow on it?
I have the strong suspicion that I won't be too thrilled with Aperture's performance and speed (or likely, lack thereof) on the iMac, so am fully prepared for the budgetary hit resulting from the eventual arrival of yet another Mac (this time a PM) in my home....
Really looking forward to the first real-use reports from those who get Aperture up and running in their machines in the next few days!
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SiliconAddict said:
It's more likely to kill Portfolio and Cumulus and iView Pro since they're cataloguing applications and for $300 more, you get quite a bit more, as long as u've the machine to run it.
It's also likely to pull a lot of photographers currently using Windows to Mac OS X.
