Bill, Aperture is known for it's organizational abilities. What I read seems to indicate that the professionals love Aperture for this fact alone and then they will still use Photoshop for editing. It is very simple to use, and has many more adjustments that can be made to a photo than iPhoto. Like my daughter I have thousands of pictures but it has never choked as does her iPhoto. Aperture also works well with FinalCut Pro, Motion, Compressor, Keynote.....they all blend nicely and once you get the feel down with one of Apple's programs you'll find many of the others work about the same so that is a plus.
iPhoto is a free powerful photo program but if you are using great quantities and making several adjustments then Aperture is the way to go. Not sure about now but in the past iPhoto would KEEP the adjusted photo in the datafile along with the original. This was obvious when I imported the iPhoto library into Aperture for now I had two photo's on any that I had made corrections. With Aperture ONLY the original is stored and any adjustments are references to the original so it really cuts down on disk space. Possibly the newer versions of iPhoto no longer keep the duplicates, not sure. When it first came out Aperture was close to $300.00 now it's something like $79.00 as a download from the App store. Lightroom is a good program from Adobe, many professionals like it better than Aperture but since I am an Apple guy first I always try to stick with them knowing that should changes be made to the operating system the programs Apple produces may well be updated before 3rd party programs. Just this past week SnapZPro was made workable with Mountain Lion, that's a long time to wait for an upgrade, the Wiretap Studio is still not Mt. Lion compatible, nor is Quicken so if Apple makes a program that fills my need I will stick with it. John On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Bill Micou wrote: > John, > Have considered Aperture, but tell me what you or your daughter use it for. > Storage, editing, etc? I got confused what its purpose was when it came out > and there was also the choice of Lightbox. (is that even around anymore?) > Bill > > On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:32 PM, John Robinson wrote: > >> My daughter has had the same problem with her thousands of photo's as well. >> Finally took a call to Apple support and a 90 min. conversation with Apple >> taking control of her machine before they could get it worked out. >> >> I have been trying to get her to change to Aperture, offers so much more and >> is robust enough to handle any number of photo's she wants to throw at it >> while it seems that folks with large numbers in iPhoto seem to have problems. >> >> John >> >> >> On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:44 AM, William Micou wrote: >> >>> Anne, >>> I have had that same problem, eventually found a solution, but about a year >>> later, it started 'losing' photos again. >>> I'm trying to re-discover what I did before, but haven't devoted enough >>> time to find it. There are some discussions in the Apple forums. >>> If I remember correctly, my problem was a directory that needed to be sent >>> to the trash, and then iPhoto rebuilt the directory. >>> I'll try to find out more by this week-end and share it with you. >>> Bill >>> >>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 05:28 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've just spent a few hours transferring 14,795 photos from my PhotoSafe >>>> (an external HD that will accept SD cards). I can see the photos in iPhoto >>>> but I can't do anything with them. Maybe only the thumbnails transferred? >>>> I get the following message "The volume for "xxx.JPG cannot be found." >>>> While it gives me three options (Cancel, Find Photo..., OK) it will do >>>> none. In fact I have to Force Quit iPhoto to do anything. >>>> >>>> I just tried with an SD card to transfer the photos using a card reader >>>> and get the same results; however I was able to transfer them to my HD but >>>> in a separate folder. Not in iPhoto. Each of these photos is about 1.5 MB >>>> in size and will open in Photoshop but I cannot get them into iPhoto. >>>> >>>> I've had this problem before and can't remember how I got around it. I >>>> think iPhoto eventually decided to work. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? How can I tell if the original photos were transferred >>>> off the PhotoSafe or if all I have is thumbnails. >>>> >>>> I'm running iPhoto 7.1.5 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.8. >>>> >>>> Any help greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Anne Cartwright >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MacGroup mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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