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Aperture vs. Lightroom – File Management Again

Woooo Whooo, I received my very first question from an Aperture File Management eBook customer. Of course I answered his specific question ASAP but something that I touch on in the book crossed my mind as well that I thought people considering Aperture vs. Lightroom at this point may want to consider. Even a few of you Aperture old timers may find this a little interesting. I have written about Lightroom’s and Aperture’s comparative file management capabilities before but I wanted to add a different perspective or twist to...

06 December 2009 | Aperture vs Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Alternatives To The Mainstream

I am a little punch drunk from spending far too much time on reinventing the site with a bunch of new features so I thought I would take a little break and discuss a couple of products that serve as partial alternatives to the heavy hitters in the image work-flow field. The two players that come to mind would be Photo Mechanic and ACDSee Pro. I don’t claim to be remotely proficient with either product in the way that I am with Aperture and Lightroom but I thought I...

09 April 2009 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments
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Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom 2 – Keywords

After much clamoring from loyal readers here is another installment of Aperture v. Lightroom round 9.7. I will try to tackle key-wording (is that a word now?) as quickly and painlessly as possible. First off some quick bottom line kinds of things and then some details. Both applications are so far and away better than older tools that we won’t even bother to compare them. If you are using either of these and not tagging your images with keywords you should be ashamed of yourself or something. Aperture introduced...

25 November 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Aperture2 vs. Lightroom2 – Stacks

Stacks in Aperture2 and Lightroom2 are about the only feature that share some functionality and have the same name. Stacks are a way of grouping similar images together. The images can be various versions of the same image taken in the camera, virtual copies (as termed in LR), versions (same thing but Aperture term), or versions that were modified with an external editor/plug-in. Stacks have the same basic functionality in both applications and can more or less do similar jobs. The magic of stacks comes from their interaction with...

04 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Aperture2 vs. Lightroom2 – Aperture Forum Post

Thought some readers here would find my sarcastic but true response to a name redacted poster in the Aperture forum’s post regarding his switch to Lightroom. The really funny part was his response to this sadly Apple deleted it before I could grab it. Knew that would happen that is how you are able to enjoy this part. Original author in normal text – my caviler response in grey italic. RB

03 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom 2 – File Management

Due to popular demand I will provide some additional detail to my previous Adobe Lightroom 2 versus Apple Aperture 2 article. Both of these applications are so rich in both functionality and the multitude of ways they can used to support a photographic work-flow it will take a serious of articles to even scratch the surface. So, no better place to start than the image file management capabilities. Most photographers adopting either one of these applications will not delve into this subject until way down the road and when...

01 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , | 7 Comments
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Aperture 2 vs. Adobe Lightroom 2

The answer to the question “what is better, Aperture or Lightroom?”, as always, is…. It depends. I use both Aperture and Lightroom on a daily basis (as well as Nikon NX2, etc, etc) If I didn’t need to know both of these products extremely well I would probably use Aperture 2 for my own photography (Just letting you know what my bias is). The answer that I always give to my private clients as well as participants in any of my workshops is this – Once you know what...

09 September 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , | 6 Comments
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Adobe Lightroom2 and DNG camera profiles

Let me start out by stating that I am an Aperture zealot. I jumped on board Aperture from day one and believe that the product’s introduction was revolutionary. Heck it kicked Adobe in the head and woke the digital media giant into understanding what photographers really need, hence Photoshop Lightroom and now the (if I must say so) excellent Lightroom2. I can forgive Apple for the lame plugin implementation of dodge and burn, I can forgive no multi-adjustment presets, even if they do seem idiotically easy to implement. What...

10 August 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 3 Comments