Aperture vs lightroom mac 2012

To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question. I'm just enthusaist and learning photography. It will be a hobby, which of this software going to be user friendly? Posted on Jul 4, 2: Blow is a non-extensive list of the strengths and weaknesses of each - at least what I've found so far I'm running both Aperture 3. Posted on Jul 4, 3: Jul 4, 2: Instead of posting here I would recommend that you do a Google search on Aperture vs Lightroom and read the posts that come up.

I haven't used Lightroom since version 2 when I compared it to Aperture. Lightroom struck me as too much Windows like which I didn't like. Jul 4, 4: If you are asking, you have a Mac. If you have a Mac, Aperture is likely the better choice, as it provides much more thorough integration with other programs you likely use. The biggest difference is how the programs look. To me, Aperture is plain, but Lightroom is ugly. The second biggest difference is how they are structured.

Aperture attempts to be -- and functions as if it were -- modeless. Lightroom is modal -- you have to switch to a mode for each family of tasks.

The third biggest difference is that Aperture's organizing tools are far superior. Aperture has an entire extra layer that Lightroom does not have. This can used advantageously. Lightroom has an army; Aperture has an air force. The forth biggest difference is that Lightroom is much more broadly used and supported.

You will find far more resources for learning and managing and customizing Lightroom than you will for Aperture. Their differences, however, are minor compared to their similarities. Invest in either -- it takes a good bit of time to learn basic proficiency in either -- and you will be rewarded. Page content loaded. Jul 4, 3: Also, Blurb is the only option unless you want to save each page as a JPEG to export to another printer. Apple has four book printer opptions. I think Lightroom will see an increase in use following it's inclusion in Creative Cloud.

We are going to give it a try now that it doesn't cost us anything we're paying to use some other CS6 apps anyway , and if it's suitable we probably will stick with it instead of paying for the next version of Aperture. It's going to have to be good though! Jul 5, It is all about workflow, stability and learning curve. I find Aperture's workflow far superior to LR. Very much faster start to finish than LR for a typical thousand-pic shoot. I agree I will admit I have a lot more LR experience, but I find Aperture's approach slow, clumsy, and even error-prone.

I'm still trying to understand Aperture's methods better, though, and looking for ways to use them more efficiently.

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This is for the High Sierra beta, but the priniciple is the same. Essentially you can choose the disk to install on during the installation process; it defaults to your current boot drive, but you can choose another. Once it's on there, you boot from it you might need to hold down the option key at boot to select the external. When it runs the first time, you can migrate over stuff.

Although for testing I often just manually add some applications.

Another way is to make a bootable clone of your current system, boot from it, and then run the installer from Applications on that, essentially the same process as on your regular boot drive. Very handy to have if you need to reinstall, install on other machines, etc. BootBuddy is a nice little free app that allows you to put the High Sierra installer on a thumb drive. Download the installer. When the download is finished, quit the actual install. Use BootBuddy to create your install drive. Which is nothing really new, or am I missing something? Are there any other features that are actually useful in photos in High Sierra?

So stuff like the Nik software can be used. Previously you were limited to extensions. Now you can send something to Photoshop, and after editing Photos will not only get the Tiff, but it isn't a separate tiff within Photos This avoids painful export-import workarounds.

• Further reading.
• The Demise of Aperture and iPhoto: What Does it Mean?;
• Apple Photos good enough to replace Aperture: Mac Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review.
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Not Tiff. And that still seems to be true, although maybe some extensions will change that. I haven't used Photos enough to find out. I dunno what you mean by innovative lossless potential, since Photos is a parametric image editor and has always been lossless. Obviously this isn't as convenient as say the Lightroom-DxO workflow. There you get a linear DNG expoted back to Lr. DxO keeps track of the image so you can go back to the project in DxO and make further changes there and do another export.

And of course there's Adobe's smart objects, which makes non-destructive sharing easy among several applications. One workaround is to use the external application to save in it's proprietary format before saving back into Photos, by say using "Duplicate The edit with is quite buggy, BTW. Essentially the applications are saving back directly into the Photos library, and some attempts crashed my whole system. Like DxO exporting directly to the externalsessions folder.

And it relies on sending back a tiff; Pixelmator eg wanted to send a Pixelmator file and that wouldn't work. So work cautiously. It still isn't a replacement for the heavy hitters, but for many it's all they need. I too am watching this closely. For Photos to be a sufficient Aperture replacement for me, I need the ability to apply copied adjustments to a batch of selected images.

Right now, I find where I can copy adjustments on an image and paste adjustments to a different single image, but no place where I can select multiple images and apply the same adjustments to all selected images. Also, in my tinkering with photos. If that turns out to be true, that might be a blocking issue from me as well. If there are things you want me to try and compare between Aperture 3.

You can use the program Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate your current system to an external drive, then use System Preferences to tell the system to boot from that drive instead of your main one - reboot and it will be from that drive. Then you can either upgrade your primary system keeping the backup to restore from, or try upgrading the backup first Thanks for the info. I have CCC already, and I'm going to follow your advice. If I want to move my laptop from High Sierra back to Sierra using the CCC clone, do I need to first erase and reformat my laptop's hard drive, and then clone?

It's SSD, same as the external drive I'm going to use. I'd simply use Restore via Command-R at startup from your TM backup, if you've got one of Sierra and obviously if testing a new OS you'd want an older backup in the event you want to go back.

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Restore is Apple's cloning application, and it'll clone back your old system. Cloning isn't fast, but I don't see the need to use CCC. If you don't have a Sierra or earlier backup, only a High Sierra one, you may have to do some manual restoring, and that can get tricky if you've upgraded other applications. The EF-M 32mm F1. Find out what's new, what it's like to use and how it compares to its peers in our review in progress. The S1 and S1R are Panasonic's first full-frame mirrorless cameras so there's a plenty to talk about. We've taken a look at the design and features of both cameras and have some initial impressions, as well.

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Forum Threaded view. Oct 3, Many thanks for your advice. Nikon D If you believe there are incorrect tags, please send us this post using our feedback form. Only you know whether it can replace Aperture for your uses. Pentax K-1 II.