Light Table vs. Album - How do you use them?

On my school (for photography) we have to use lighttables for organizing photos from

documentary, reportage and journalism. We learn to layout the photo's so that you keep fascinated or focussed on the subject. For example, vary in portrait or landscape orientation, vary in composistion, color et cetera.

When you view multiple photo's in a row that looks the same it can be boring.

Wow, I remember looking at that feature when I first got Aperture, but I never actually opened one until just now. Thanks! I think I'll try using Light Tables with client. They look pretty impressive actually.

Has the Light Table Image bug problem finally been fixed? See

1. Question on Light Table behavior
2. Light Table - poor images
3. Light Table - blurred images (bug)

Corky02 was one of the original reporter of the problem.

I think it's a valiant attempt to give digital photos some conceptual texture and let users manipulate their position relative to each other the way we used to do with analog prints. I used to love throwing prints out on a light table and shuffle them around, to see how they influence each other in different positions. Great idea, but like many things it got the ol' Apple neglect. I bet a few thousand feedback tickets would get them to fix the blurriness.

I have never noticed the blurriness in the lighttables, because I do not zoom in the photos.

I have send a bug feedback to Apple.

+1.

I use Lighttables for two things:

- to line up Images that I will stitch with an external editor (for various reasons these are not always in order).

- to judge color balance, color interactions, and cropping/shape for images that will be sold and displayed as a set.

I don't do that a lot, but when I do, it is very useful, and there is no other tool in Aperture that let's me do those things.

The bug that degrades the displayed resolution should have been removed long ago. Léonie's Bug Annunciator should be sent directly to the Apple Aperture team 🙂 .

That bug goes back to at least last summer, so if ai ain't gone by now ....😟

You know what I just realized? Here I am reminiscing about the old days, "throwing prints out on a light table". What's wrong with that statement? haha! Transparencies went on a light table, that's what. Prints went on the proofing tabe. This is how long ago it was, that memories amalgamize and the traditional tools and phrases are applied to digital lingo (and lost).

Just a little side note...

leonieDF wrote:

what is the advantage of this overlapping mess compared to the ordered grid in the Browser?

Order, spacing, arrangement, inclusion/exclusion (for starters 😉 ).

Example:

Screenshot 1:

Screenshot2:

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Light Table brightness is the same as the Viewer, set at "Aperture→Preferences→Appearance".

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OT:

I just assumed you left the light-table lights off when arranging prints ... 😀 .

I agree.

On my academy for photography we have real lighttables to organize the photos on several criteria. I really need lighttables so sort as Kirby descripted. I sort on orientation, color, composition et cetera. After that I create a story that keeps interesting to look at by varying the photos by the different sort criteria.

Lighttables is a must have for good organization before you send your photos to the printer.