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Aperture vs. Lightroom - Black and White and Color Casting

Hey guys,

I've recently received Aperture and started playing with it... One of the major things I've notices is that control for making B&W Photos and Tones B&W photos seems to be a little more functional in Lightroom than in Aperture. Has anyone else found this to be true? If so, how did you get around the (seeming) limitations?

For example, lightroom applies different amounts of color toning to highlights and shadows enabling you to give the photo a much more contrastier look... Also, Aperture only lets you adjust RGB values when converting to B&W while lightroom gives you a wider selection of colors to control...


Am I wrong in saying all of the above? Is there something I'm missing about Aperture's color toning and B&W shading that I'm missing that puts it even or above Lightroom?

Thanks,
Ricardo

DC 2.0 G5, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 31, 2006 7:44 PM

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Jun 2, 2006 6:51 AM in response to Meleschi_

They're different programs with different raw converters, so of course they work differently.

Personally I think both programs have a lot of problems right now. I prefer Lightroom's converter and filesystem, but I prefer Aperture's interface. Neither is at a point yet where I can use it for my professional work.

As for BW work, I personally think both do a very good job, but I've never been partial to the "toned" look.

Aperture vs. Lightroom - Black and White and Color Casting

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