Aperture 2
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Aperture 2
Why I didn't I look at Aperture sooner?
Written by AD from Highlands Ranch
Apr 12, 2009
I never took much of a look at Aperture until the number of photos I had started approaching the 10's of thousands. I needed a better way to get a grasp on managing them. A number of pro photographer buddies kept insisting I should take a look at Aperture. They kept telling me how wonderful it was for managing photos, but I wouldn't listen.
Finally a couple of weeks ago I became frustrated with my current management system. I downloaded the demo and became enthusiastic about it. Needless to say I purchased Aperture 2 and signed up for Apples One to One. I have been working with the trainers to learn it better and the more I learn the more I like Aperture.
Now I just keep kicking myself for having not taken a look at it sooner.(31 of 34 people found this review useful)
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Aperture 2
Great product!
Written by RF from Northlake
Apr 10, 2009
I am beginners of photo editing and until now I'm still learning this product I've been having few of other product I use before and so far this is the best! One thing I found so very useful was the one that it will upgrade the quality of your image, when i say upgrade meaning like if your image has a 2.5MB after doing some edits from aperture then importing it to iphoto most of my image from 2.5 went up to 9MB to 10MB! its amazing! we all know that jpeg photo degraded its quality everytime we open and save them but aperture enhanced it not just by look but by quality! Now im not worried about my old photos of losing their quality. There's still a lot of amazing thing from this product for me to discover! I only have it for a month now and I'm addicted to it!
Two things I cannot do yet and I'm not sure if it will work for me is the tethering. My canon XSi wont capture any picture when i try the tether. and also when I shot JPEG+RAW photos after i downloaded it comes out blank and says unsupported! but thats not a bog deal i have other software that can hundle it if I realy need to shoot JPEG+RAW images. all in all great product! pricy but worth the money.(17 of 23 people found this review useful)
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Aperture 2
Aperture 2 is awesome.
Written by SN from Myrtle Beach
Apr 6, 2009
If you have ever had to struggle with photoshop or any other photo editing program you will immediately fall in love with Aperture. All of the tools are right there at your fingertips literally one or two clicks away, and its all contained within the simple clean layout with the trademark apple style. Editing photos has never been smoother.
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Aperture 2
Can't love it totally
Written by DF from Franklin
Mar 30, 2009
I like everything about Aperture2, but it does have one bug I can't work around. It won't give me preview images of D90 NER (raw) files. It will import and read them without a problem, but I can't preview and select/deselect images prior to importing them, and that's a problem Apple has not been able to help with.
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Aperture 2
Great Program to manage photos
Written by TB from Oakland
Mar 24, 2009
This is great program to have. It is very powerful program for everyone to manage, edit, effects and retouch RAW photos. Nothing bad to say about Aperture 2.0. Thanks Apple for the greatest program.
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Aperture 2
A couple of minor limitations .. easily overcome.
Written by WH from Mission
Mar 8, 2009
This is an extremely versatile program. It handles raw images with ease. Adjusting the "levels" histograms is superior to adjusting curves ... it makes more sense to me. A limitation I found is in regard to text. I often include text within my images. This software allows me to run PS Elements within Aperture which completely solves my text problem. Similarly, perspective control can also be done on PS (from within Aperture). Numerous useful plug-ins are available. Try the trial version ... enjoy.
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Aperture 2
Slideshow
Written by EE from Antioch
Feb 25, 2009
The slideshow function shows horizontal lines when fading between images. Preferences are forgotten often, when you want to import photos, it wants to put them into the local library no matter how many times you select to keep them in your external drive, and it misinterprets the time and date in the metadata if you use RAW DNG conversion before importing, as I used to do. It is very easy to use, and works fast, and is the best software for managing and backing up a huge photo library in my experience. I use it every day, and those are my pet peeves, so don't think I hate it. I have reported the above pet peeves as bugs. I just take comfort knowing that it works consistently and fast.
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Aperture 2
great idea,too many problems
Written by AM from london
Feb 7, 2009
i love the concept of aperture and when it works its very easy to use and gives great results ,however i have to say that the latest version has given me nothing but trouble.
i,m a serious amateur/sometimes pro and am managing thousands of images in aperture but have been very disappointed by the many bugs that i,m finding ,not least being the complete inability to create or maintain back up vaults.
i find i,m spending more time trying to find solutions on support forums than working on images and as apple dont give us any clue as to wether they are about to fix the bugs or if they are abandoning the aperture project i,d not recommend it to serious photographers.(97 of 130 people found this review useful)
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Aperture 2
Lack of RAW support
Written by LC from AMERICUS
Feb 6, 2009
I can only give this application 4 stars due to the lack of X3F RAW support. It doesn't fully cover all major RAW formats as advertised, it seems only mosaic RAWs may apply.
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Aperture 2
Really, really nice, but...
Written by MK from Scarsdale
Feb 1, 2009
Aperture 2 is a very powerful program with loads of great tools. However, one thing I find extremely annoying is the fact that the Red Eye tool is very weak. It will fix some red eye problems, but not all of them. In fact, it won't fix most of them. I'm almost surprised there is even a red eye tool button included in the program, because it is basically useless. If you have red eye in a photo that you really need to get rid of, you will have to first open the photo in photoshop to get rid of it and then import the photo into Aperture. The red eye tool in iPhoto basically has the same issues, but you would think that with the more expensive professional version of iPhoto (which Aperture is sort of like, albeit much more powerful) they would correct that, but they don't.
I tried Lightroom also, and as with Photoshop, the red eye tool works great. I'm not going to give a full comparison of Aperture to Lightroom (even though I tried them both), but all in all, I think Lightroom is a little bit better. Aperture does give you plenty to work with and the interface is great, as is the organizational aspect of keeping your images. However, why is it so hard to fix red eye, when it seems as though other programs have no problems with it? Kind of makes you wonder how good the other editing tools in Aperture really are.
I started asking around, and it seems (at least according to my short survey) that more professional photographers like using the Adobe Lightroom better, if anything at all. It could be that they are used to using Photoshop, which is an incredibly powerful tool for photographers.
In summary, if you are looking for an organizational tool in the style of Apple, but want more editing abilities than you get with iPhoto, then Aperture is a good way to go. Just don't expect to be able to do everything you might want to do with it, especially if you shoot a lot of photos of people. You are bound to get red eye in some of them, and I guarantee that you will not be able to get rid of it with Aperture. When you try to, you end up leaving a lot of the red, and/or creating big black smudges where the eyes are.
My advice, take both Aperture and Lightroom for a test drive (you can try both for free for 30 days). Use them the way you plan to and see which one works best for you.
Good luck.(84 of 92 people found this review useful)
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