$80 for Aperture is not expensive by any stretch of the imagination. On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Aperture (and Lightroom which has also been mentioned) are relatively > expensive general purpose programs that do two things: a) they support a file > management process so that you can systematically name, tag, and store your > images in a form that they will be accessible when you need them; and b) > they provide a suite of image manipulation tools. > So, do you need Aperture (or Lightroom)? Yes, if you need those capabilities. > If you are just interested in the manipulation/editing features, something > like the Photoshop Elements, also previously mentioned, will be useful to you. > In choosing and then learning to use new software, the biggest stumbling > block is not in learning the steps to do a particular task; instead it is in > learning that you want to do that task. For example, Lightroom offers me > options on re-naming my files when I bring them in from the SDHC card. > Several options, a bit complex to manage, but really not more than 5 minutes > of reading and trial-and-error to work out a routine for your workflow. The > hard part is in knowing what you want the software to do. So in this example, > the hard part is in thinking about how you will store and retrieve your > images, and how the naming convention you use will make that process less > tedious. Another example. Lightroom has options for adjusting the luminance, > saturation, and hue of many portions of the color spectrum. They are trial > to use - you just slide a slider on a scale. Learning when and why to make > those color adjustments, and the impact on your image when viewed on a screen > vs. viewed as a print, that is the hard thing to learn. Any of the software > packages mentioned in this discussion can do many things, but none will teach > you what you should be asking it to do. > So, that was my long answer to your question. My short answer is that you > should go on-line and find tutorials in the various software packages, or > read a book or two that help you learn more about what can be done with image > processing, with examples of when to use different tools. Once you know more > what you want to do, it will be easier to decide which tool to use to do what > you want. Another approach that can also work is to just go ahead and try > Aperture, explore with it, and learn that way. You have little to lose but a > little time. > > stan > > On Apr 19, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Thomas Bohn wrote: > >> Hello or Moin, >> >> I'm wondering about my photo workflow on my Mac recently. So I >> downloaded the Aperture Trial to see wether the software works for me >> or not. >> >> Since I'm still importing my iPhoto database I can't tell much it yet. >> But I begin to wonder if I really need the power of Aperture now, on >> the other hand I already saw some feature I already missed in iPhoto. >> >> For example iPhoto offers just one option for a general improvement of >> a photo, which isn't always right. >> >> So basicly iPhoto means for me, to stuck at a certain level and >> Aperture would mean a lot of feature which I might need or want in the >> future. >> >> I hope for some advice and some ideas, maybe even other software I >> could use instead. >> >> Thomas >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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