Thursday, February 25, 2010
Aperture 3 versus Lightroom 2
Thursday, February 25, 2010 
I'll start off by stating without hesitation that I am an Apple Fanboy. This cannot ever come into question. I really, really wanted to like Aperture 3 more than Lightroom 2. Yes, I have a lot of Adobe tech flowing through my day to day and Flash has made a lot of great things possible for me. In my mind Apple comes first. Except for now.
Aperture 3 has added many features of iPhoto to it's mix... and that's all well and good except now Aperture doesn't feel like a professional tool anymore. Maybe that's what they were after when they decided to migrate a lot of functionality. But it feels dumbed down, more accessible, less professional now.
Both applications are good at what they do, no doubt. Personally I like the way I can organize in Aperture better than Lightroom, but everywhere else LR is a better app for me. The panels getting out of my way, two stages of fullscreen, decent editing tools, etc. Aperture has better sharing tools (me.com) and the whole ordering books thing is pretty awesome too.
I'd almost like to have the two have sex and give birth to a über photography tool. I just imported a bunch of RAW into LR and it's pretty blissful in there.
Aperture 3 has added many features of iPhoto to it's mix... and that's all well and good except now Aperture doesn't feel like a professional tool anymore. Maybe that's what they were after when they decided to migrate a lot of functionality. But it feels dumbed down, more accessible, less professional now.
Both applications are good at what they do, no doubt. Personally I like the way I can organize in Aperture better than Lightroom, but everywhere else LR is a better app for me. The panels getting out of my way, two stages of fullscreen, decent editing tools, etc. Aperture has better sharing tools (me.com) and the whole ordering books thing is pretty awesome too.
I'd almost like to have the two have sex and give birth to a über photography tool. I just imported a bunch of RAW into LR and it's pretty blissful in there.
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ProDesignTools said...“Thanks - I haven't had the chance to check out Aperture 3 yet so this is helpful. It will be interesting to see what Lightroom 3.0 brings to the mix... The two products have historically run neck-and-neck on their release schedules, so with a bit of luck this should mean Lightroom 3 is due out pretty soon.”
