Aperture and iPhoto have a strong family resemblance, but the similarities are no more than skin deep. They are very different programs, developed by different teams for very different users. Comparing their features is, imho, a waste of time.
(iPhoto comes pre-assembled, with training wheels, and a selection of sparkly steamers; Aperture comes in a plain box with almost no instructions, tubes uncut, spokes neither bent, headed, or threaded, etc.)
Aperture is very powerful, and very customizable. I'm sure you will find what you need, adapt to what is there, and end up with a fast and pretty ride.
dankohn wrote:
1) iPhoto Batch Change has a great feature for modifying the date by adding 1 second between each photo. This means that after manually sorting scans into my preferred order, I could Batch change their dates and they would then sort correctly (e.g., in a Project or on the iPad photo app).
2) The "Add to" button is an easy way to add a picture to an album, rather than having to drag it.
3) File: Reveal in Finder was sometimes useful to me for checking that metadata was getting modified correctly, although it's such a dangerous feature for naive users that it should probably be removed from iPhoto as it is added to Aperture.
4) Access to the menus in full screen view by holding the cursor across the top of the screen for 3 seconds.
If anyone has Applescripts or similar to accomplish any of these, I'd appreciate the suggestions. Any other missing iPhoto features?
- Sound cool A work-around: Rename the Versions in series, and sort by name. But that's only of use outside of Aperture; within Aperture, your manual sort order for any container is always remembered, even if you switch to another sort order.
- I tend to do this in lumps, using Flags and Flagged view. If you have an Album to which you regularly add, I would suggest converting it to a Smart Album and using a keyword to move images into the Smart Album. Albums, for me, work best for fixed projects (small "p" output projects: head-shots of Peter, for instance); Smart Albums work great for organization of open-ended things (like my "portfolio").
- This exist in Aperture for Referenced Masters (the only case in which it would be useful). Versions are just text files, to be neither read nor messed with, and Managed Masters are located inside the Aperture Library package.
- There is a pretty complete icon tool bar at the top of the screen which pop-up when you mouse up there in full-screen view. You can anchor it so it shows all the time.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger
