Lightroom vs. Aperture

[Brandon Burkhardt]

for warning: typed on iPhone, spelling and gramar may be off a bit from missed corrections on my part!

Just want some opinions on folks pros and cons of each and why you prefer to use your choice. I have used LR for months now. I love how it manages files (And works better with apples time machien then Apples own photo app) but the interface is combersome and has extras I don't see my self ever useing. I.e. Web export and the like. I also prefer Dng for size and acesibilitiy with othe ps/lr users. However, aperture has a much cleaner and intuative inerface and when you use referaced files you have that greater flexibility even though it's one extra step. Plus i use iPhoto and iWeb for many quick sharing situations and aperture integrates beautifully!!!

I can't make a desicion!!! Please help!!! Thoughts??

Brandon B.
Www.brandonburkhardt.com

[peeker]

This is just like the Canon vs. Nikon debate. It ought to be interesting...

I for one am an Aperture user and find myself doing 90% of my post processing in it. After trialing Nik Software's complete collection, I am going to buy it in the next few days to take my post processing to almost 100% in Aperture.

[Brandon Burkhardt]

I know it! I'm a canon man becuase, well my first camera was a canon. And once you have the gear... both brands (and many others) can take stunning photos in the right hands.

But on to the subject matter. Please keep it coming whith pros and cons and why your useing which program!

[hotshot38]

http://stuartforsyth.com/2009/01/12/...room-shootout/

[rwwright]

interesting differences already. i use lr for 90% of my processing. now using it for all of my web builds. love the interface. love the cateloging. have used several (purchased and used for year or more) other cataloging software. no comparision. rarely need to use cs3 for editing anymore.

never used a mac or apple software, probably never will. doesnt mean it is not good, just dont want to change to macs after so long on pc.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by hotshot38

http://stuartforsyth.com/2009/01/12/...room-shootout/

According to that article, the negatives for LR are subjective in my opinion. Although I have never tried Aperture since I use a PC.


Speed – Consistently much slower than Aperture in all areas. Displaying of images and editing.
This will supposedly change with the release of LR3. Even with my Intel Quad Core, 8GB of RAM, and fast hard drives, LR can be slow at times. But my one huge catalog containing 63,000+ RAW files and processing 100-300+ photos at one time can contribute to the slow speeds.


layout has always seemed a little clunky. Collapse some of the side toolbars and there is this annoying on-hover expansion – Coming from Aperture I really think that Adobe need to have a serious chat with the people in the UI department. The side panels which, once hidden, pop out at you on mouseover are terribly annoying. The other thing which I don’t like is the seperate areas you have to go to for viewing and editing, in Aperture once you’re looking at the photo you can view, edit, export, send to lightboxes and perform a whole host of actions on it.
This is funny. LR was specifically made with the photographer in mind. It increases workflow productivity ad reduces time post processing. Switching from Bridge/ACR, I thought LR did an incredible job with the layout. Keyboard shortcuts will make your life even easier.


Export options, books watermarking – The export options are not as strong as Aperture. There is no support for my book creation, my favourite Aperture export option.
Exporting options depend on what you're looking to do. I really love the export option of LR...again...just my opinion. The book creation thingy just seems gimmicky. I really don't see this counting as a negative for LR.



LOL, this link was posted at the bottom of that article.
http://stuartforsyth.com/2009/09/22/...d-of-aperture/

[dmora]

I like them both. I think Aperture is a bit more rapid than LR in rendering images on the fly.
Aperture has better export options... the custom book making alone is insane. So wonderful not having to go thru a third party to make a book. I love it.

Its been a while since i've used Aperture unfortunately. It does need some tweaks still... but so does LIghtRoom. Currently i use Lightroom out the wazoo.