Soft proofing is a way to see what the final print will (should) look
like.
As each printer will give a print slightly different from what is on
your (hopefully color calibrated) screen, soft proofing lets you see
what the final image will look like without having to print a test
print first. Each printer will have a different profile that you can
add to Aperture. You can then adjust your photo in Aperture to more
accurately reflect what you want the final print to look like.
This page will show the difference between a photo in Aperture and the
same photo with soft proofing turned on:
http://gallery.me.com/hornsofglass#100612&view=grid&bgcolor=black&sel=0
The first is how it looks on my screen, the second would be how it
would look printed out. With soft proofing I can adjust for the color
differences so that the final print looks more like what I wanted.
Disclaimer: I by no means know what I'm talking about, this is just my
(amateur) way of using this stuff...
On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
And if you tell me what soft proofing is, that will make me happy,
too, since i have never known what that means.
Marta
On Aug 4, 2009, at 19:07 pm, Rick Burnett wrote:
oh, and since migrating back (tentatively) to Aperture, I realized
that it has soft proofing!
This, in combination with my HP printer profile, and the ICC
profile for Smugmug's printers makes me very happy.
Rick
On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Rick Burnett wrote:
While I'm uncertain that Aperture will ever be updated again (it's
been what, two years?) I'm hoping that after Snow Leopard and the
improvements there, we will see Aperture 3.0 that will address
some of the issues with the current version and put it on par with
the things that LR excels at.
On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:40 PM, John Stone wrote:
When they both came out I was trying to cut down the number of
programs it took to edit, LR would import and rename in one step,
while Aperture it was 2 steps. So I went with LR, but there are
aspects of Aperture that I really like...
John
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Rick Burnett
<[email protected]> wrote:
I suppose that organization isn't the best word to describe what
I'm talking about, but I dislike the "modules" interface of LR,
and visually prefer Aperture. I like that I can drag a picture
from browser view in Aperture to my desktop without having to go
through the steps of exporting like I need to in LR. Integration
with OS X is nicer in Aperture, and it's quicker and easier to
share files with my wife's Macbook Air because I generally shoot
in RAW, and the previews generated by Aperture are good enough
for her on that machine.
That said, there are three major drawbacks to Aperture for me
that LR handles better.
1. the aforementioned speed in editing (browsing is better
because of the quick preview feature)
2. LR can write the keywords directly to the file. This is huge
for me because it makes my photo organization transferable to
other programs, even if the edits aren't.
3. Text searching is better in LR. If I have photos tagged with
mom and sister, in LR I can type "mom sister" and see all photos
with both individuals in them. It's not as easy in Aperture
(although it is in iPhoto!)
Rick
On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:50 PM, John Stone wrote:
Rick,
What's the difference in Aperture's and LR organization? I use
LR, after Aperture didn't do a couple of things I needed, of
course now Aperture does!
John
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Rick Burnett
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have one of the new 2.8Ghz Macbook Pros with 4GB RAM and 512mb
VRAM.
On it Aperture still seems sloooow.
I've gone back and forth between it and Lightroom because there
are aspects of both that I like. Lightrooms performance on this
machine blows away Aperture, but Aperture's organization and
workflow keep pulling me back in.
Should this machine be able to properly handle a program like
Aperture? Moving sliders around in adjustments mode is very
slow, unlike doing so in Develop mode in LR.
I would be able to deal with the lagginess of Aperture if it
could do a few of the things that LR can, like import as DNG and
write metadata and keywords to the file (a big issue for me).
I've managed to come up with a workflow that uses both of the
programs, but it would be nice to just use one. Currently, I
import my RAW files as DNGs using LR and store them in my
Pictures folder in a Year>Year-Month>Month-Day structure (2009 >
2009-07 > 07-14, etc.). All keywording is done via LR and saved
to the file.
Then imported into a new project in Aperture (all the keywords
are recognized), and edited there (even dealing with the
slowness, because browsing is so much better in than LR).
Anyone have any suggestions to improve this workflow, or to
speed up Aperture, or a way to have Aperture write the keywords
to the actual files (without having to export then re-import the
files)?
Rick
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