Aperture...(computer program)

[Elife]

Yah...what's it good for?

I just switched to digital from film and I'm trying to establish a system for storing/organizing/editing my photos and for uploading to my website (which I haven't really started yet). So any suggestions/programs for doing so would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Nihiriju]

aperature is for macs, and it is a professional photo editing program....it loks pretty good to me, and it does lots of extras ( like help in website management) go to the apple website and look it up.

http://www.apple.com/ca/aperture/

 

[Schmitty]

Aperture is NOT an editing program, it's a workflow management program. Aperture is exactly what you are looking for, especially if you shoot a high volume of pictures. I've used it iView and Lightroom and like Aperture the best. Check out the others though and see what you like the most:

http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

 

[johnwiechecki]

I've heard that if you aren't running some crazy system then it will go super slow and shit...any backup to that rumor.

 

[Schmitty]

System requirements for aperture are pretty high, yeah, need at least a 1.8 Ghz G5 or higher 1 GB ram, and a good video card. It runs OK on the bottom end machine, usable and only really slows down when you're doing some intense sorting or stuff like that.

 

[Elife]

I also think it said that it required the intel processor, true or am I getting mixed up?

 

[thejackamo]

no, aperture is universal - works on both powerpc and intel.

i personally like it. it's pretty much a souped up iphoto when you get right down to it, but there's a lot of really useful features for RAW adjustments (and JPEG too, but i don't see why you'd use it for that). i know a few professionals that actually prefer using bridge over aperture, but i think that's really because they already have a workflow established with bridge and they've found that their system works better for them. to each his own.

 

[Digital_Dave]

You need a pretty mental system to run it. I've got it on my MacBook Pro and I'm sporting 2 gigs of ram, trust me, you want to have at least 1.5 gb if you're gonna run through a serious amount of photos. I use it as a workflow management tool, I still do all my editing in Photoshop but I find Aperture to be a dope way to organize all my stuff.

1.0 is crap, however the 1.1.1 update is 100x better... Not to mention it is a universal binary and hauls ass.