HuubL
hunter-gatherer
I'm in the market for a new laptop and I'm thinking about getting a MacBook Pro. Till now I've been a Windoze user with PS7 as my most recent 
digital photo software. What do you think about Aperture? Can it replace PS?
digital photo software. What do you think about Aperture? Can it replace PS?nightfly
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I think the answer is that it depends what you use Photoshop for. From my understanding Aperture and Adobe's Lightroom, provide photo management and some Photoshop like features and both allow non-destructive editing. However neither is billed as a Photoshop replacement.
The consensus I've heard is that for alot of common adjustments, you can can do them in Aperture or Lightroom but for more complex stuff, you might want to keep Photoshop around.
I don't know much about the latest versions of Aperture or Lightroom, but initially many felt Aperture was a resource hog and pretty slow on all but the fastest most RAM loaded desktop Macs, however this might have changed.
In any case, get the cross-upgrade for Photoshop just to have it. I wouldn't run Photoshop or any other resource intensive application through the Mac virtualization tools (Parallels or VMWare or Bootcamp) it's just not as fast particularly as you can get a native version.
Welcome to Mac. The primary advantage of getting a Mac IS NOT that it can run Windows and OS X on the same machine althoughthat's nice, it's that it runs OS X.
You spend less time screwing around with your computer and more time doing whatever you sat down to do.
The consensus I've heard is that for alot of common adjustments, you can can do them in Aperture or Lightroom but for more complex stuff, you might want to keep Photoshop around.
I don't know much about the latest versions of Aperture or Lightroom, but initially many felt Aperture was a resource hog and pretty slow on all but the fastest most RAM loaded desktop Macs, however this might have changed.
In any case, get the cross-upgrade for Photoshop just to have it. I wouldn't run Photoshop or any other resource intensive application through the Mac virtualization tools (Parallels or VMWare or Bootcamp) it's just not as fast particularly as you can get a native version.
Welcome to Mac. The primary advantage of getting a Mac IS NOT that it can run Windows and OS X on the same machine althoughthat's nice, it's that it runs OS X.
You spend less time screwing around with your computer and more time doing whatever you sat down to do.
S
simonclivehughe
Guest
If you use layers, dodging and burning etc in PS, then Aperture is not going to be a replacement. For pretty well anything else, it is very good (Version 2 is much faster than previously) and it excels at DAM.
arnulf
Registered User
I second that.simonclivehughe said:
The greatest advantage with Aperture is that it improves the digital RAW workflow a LOT. I can recommend it.
Arnulf
nightfly
Well-known
I stand corrected, Bootcamp lets you use Windows natively but you have to re-boot into it, Parallels and VMWare let you run Windows inside of OSX like another application with what I understand decent speed.
I'm still on my G4 Powerbook using Virtual PC for testing Windows stuff but will be buying a new Macbook Pro running either VMWare or Parallels soon. Got to be better than Virtual PC.
In any case I'm always curious to hear how people like Aperture vs Lightroom for non-RAW features, since I'm doing analog capture and scanning.
I'm still on my G4 Powerbook using Virtual PC for testing Windows stuff but will be buying a new Macbook Pro running either VMWare or Parallels soon. Got to be better than Virtual PC.
In any case I'm always curious to hear how people like Aperture vs Lightroom for non-RAW features, since I'm doing analog capture and scanning.
MikeL
Go Fish
Nice icon "photomoof".