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Aperture or Lightroom?

I am yet to take the plunge and just don't know whether to go for Aperture or Lightroom. I use a Canon 600d and shoot in RAW. Looking at most recent reviews of Aperture, I am nervous about taking the plunge. Any advice out there???

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Mar 2, 2013 1:32 PM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2013 1:36 PM

Have you read the More Like This on the right of this page ?

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Mar 2, 2013 1:54 PM in response to pleaselouise

I asked you to read previous messages because they have really a lot of information.

I personnaly use Aperture since version 1.5 and I am happy with it. Now it is really cheap for the power it gives.

It can now work toghether with iPhoto, and this can be an advantage.

I use it more for archiv purposes than for adjust, which I do more with Photoshop. But this are opinions. I like the way you can keep referenced files out of your Mac on external drive. It is a complex app any way and takes some time to understand it (which I have not jet performed at all).

If you have a more specific question post it again and you will see here there are really experts of Aperture (not me) which will answer in detail.

For its price... test it !


Ahhh Forgotten ! YOU CAN TEST IT FOR FREE

Mar 2, 2013 2:32 PM in response to WALTER-MILANO-ITALY

Hi Walter


Sorry I should have mentioned that I have read up quite a lot about it and I had also read that quite comprehensive one which is quite recent but it doesn't mention anything about the recent problems with aperture but also, even having read all of that I still can't decide!!


Bit I will try Lightroom that's a good suggestion. Shame you can't try aperture too!

Mar 2, 2013 8:01 PM in response to pleaselouise

Look for Frank Caggiano's response re: Aperture vs. Lightroom. He mentions -- convincingly 😉 -- that the problems you read about are entirely blown out of proportion. I have many hundreds of thousands of Images under management in Aperture. It works great.


It is a hardware glutton, but that is pretty well known, and shared with Lightroom.


As for the choice of one or the other: they are functionally similar enough to be considered identical (including having the same number of problems). Aperture has two main advantages: it's organization tools add a significant extra dimension, and it is much better integrated with other OS X programs (not a surprise). LR has one significant advantage: much more widely installed, and (thus) much more information readily available.


I suggest using the one you like to look at. I am serious.


Best of luck. There is no reason at all to be "nervous about taking the plunge" -- the learning curve for each progam is easily walked, after you swim across the "but I thought Images = files" moat.

Jul 31, 2013 10:55 AM in response to Waldemar Winkler

"The game's afoot". Apple has been advertising for both software engineers and an author/trainer for their Aperture team, so Aperture ain't dead. Best WAG (wild a** guess) is that an updated vesion will come out with either the new Mac Pro or Mavericks. I'm guessing that Mavericks will ship the second week in September.


FWIW, I've used both Lr and Aperture. While Lr's Develop module does an excellent job, the rest of it is a mess. If you create photo books, Lr has only one book printer (Blurb - who's QC isn't that great). I find Lr's organization frustrating.

Aug 1, 2013 6:16 AM in response to Waldemar Winkler

there is one killer feature (for me) in Lightroom: you can edit images even if they are not available.

eg: my (raw) photos are on a an external drive, my LR catalogue is on the internal SSD. when offsite I can fully edit the images )not only metadata like star-rating as with Aperture) and only need the "real" RAW file when I want to export the edited file.


I also can confirm to teh above discussion: Aperture works fine even on hughe libraries if you have the hardware.

I have a Retina MB and an external Lacie Thunderbolt Raid 0 drive.


I also have bought Lightroom but have not yet migrated my Aperture libs. All new photos go into LR, but I desperately hope for Aperture 4. It is so much more fun to work with Aperture than with Lightroom - except Photo editing.


But with next OSX upgrade I start migrating my libs if there is no new Aperture coming along with it ...

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