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Lightroom vs Aperture

Lightroom vs. Aperture

  • Adobe Lightroom

    Votes: 10 38.5%

  • Apple Aperture

    Votes: 16 61.5%
  • Total voters
    26
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thebrain74

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I am going to get one of these two programs to manage my photos. I just don't know which one. I have heard that lightroom runs faster while aperture has more features. Both look good, and I just wanted your guys' reactions/experiences with them. I will be using jpegs, and probably running a low end C2D MBP with 2gig ram
 
 
 
Try them out. But I'll say mainly the only reason I've stuck with Aperture is because of FlickrExport, which I absolutely love.

Lightroom runs much better and I think if there was a FlickrExport for Lightroom, I might go with that.

But that being said, Aperture's lack of a dedicated workflow is pretty good as well. 🙂

In conclusion....just go try the trials. It's your choice which one you pick, not ours. 😀
 
I could really use something like this Aperture plugin in Lightroom. I preferred Lightroom when I tried the trials of each, but this plugin has me thinking that I may have to go with Aperture.
 
netdog said:
I could really use something like this Aperture plugin in Lightroom. I preferred Lightroom when I tried the trials of each, but this plugin has me thinking that I may have to go with Aperture.
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Forgive me for not going and looking (I'm not at my home machine), but my recollection was that Lightroom was very FTP-friendly, whereas Aperture was proverbially "hardwired" into .mac? As such (and if my recollections are correct), this would mean that a plugin is a necessity for Aperture to make it equivalent to Lightroom...I'd hardly then claim that to be a 'feature'.


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Well, since I haven't posted on any of the other threads.... 😀

Aperture:
Flexible 'workflow'
Fancy web gallery, book, etc. creation
Generally better organizer, I find it's easier to sort my incoming photos
Multiple monitor support -- very nice, and incredibly useful to LR/Aperture's main job of photo management, so I'm sure the next update to LR will have this

Lightroom:
Seems generally better at developing, as you might expect from Adobe
I love how it provides automatic smart sorting for shots by lens, camera, etc.
I like the B/W conversion options -- seems much easier and more flexible in LR than Aperture

Ultimately, I chose Aperture, but it was an agonizing choice. I hope in the next versions they rip off each other's best features and gain the ability to import each other's libraries, at least to an extent. 😛 I'd also like to see at least Aperture and iPhoto play more nicely together.
 
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