Aperture 4 Wish List

OOOPS! We're doomed. The Aperture 4 books have disappeared from Amazon. 😟 (Yes, I just looked.)

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DiploStrat 😉

Pretty convenient disappearing act I would say....

If I am going to do colour correction, for Nikon, I find the only tool that works everytime is CX2. Though Aperture is good, I find it is blown away by CX2.

Just a question but did you calibrate your monitor? I am using a MBP 15 inch, newest model and I had to calibrate the monitor because the colors were a bit cool. However I agree with you. I use Nikon CX2, as well as Nik's Colorefx Pro....

I find the only tool that works everytime is CX2.

Is this new? Or do you guys mean NX2?

Regards

TD

Hi Terence,

There is Capture NX2 and View NX2. Capture NX2 is much more robust with control points, etc... What Aperture is missing. Go to: http://www.europe-nikon.com/en_GB/product/software/camera-control-pro-2 to see a full spec list...I use this and it is very good.

Sorry, you are correct, I meant NX2.

You'll like Capture NX2 better. It costs but it is pretty good.

Hey DiploStrat,

Just checked Amazon and there are 2 listings for Aperture 4 books, with different release dates. Check it out! Come on Apple put us out of our misery.... just launch Aperture 4!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo rds=apple+aperture+4&sprefix=apple+aper%2Caps%2C353

Now that LR4.1 has been out, and Scott Bourne essentially called Apple to task, here's my list of "must have's"

• Lens correction
• Selective WB Adjustment (i.e. add this as an adjustment brush)
• Gradient filter (including neutral density, colored)
• Highlights/Shadows/Whites/Blacks sliders - i.e. similar process version to LR4
• Perhaps more book options.

James Oliver's poste of the Amazon UK site is quite encouraging, in that there appears to be two books coming out.

It seems to me, people are attempting to turn Aperture into an existing product, Photoshop. This could go a long way in explaining why Aperture has become a resource hog. I want Aperture to be the photo manager it was meant to be, meaning all photo corrects are off loaded by plugin, or photoshop.

I want Aperture to be the photo manager it was meant to be, meaning all photo corrects are off loaded by plugin, or photoshop.

On that I agree, but I would like to have a better plug-in / external editor interface, that does not interrupt the lossless workflow. True Aperture plug-ins would allow reversible edits and not require additional quasi-masters.

Just loaded the Aperture update 3.3 and want to comment on the new Set Desktop feature. While I am glad they finally added it, it took too long to actually find it so I went to Help. It is located under File>Share. Its not in the obvious place - the toolbar Share dropdown. I bet they overlooked adding it there. Perhaps for the next update Apple can fix that.

What is this Set Desktop?

What is this Set Desktop?

You can set one of your images as Desktop wallpaper using this command.