lightroom vs aperture questions

Hi
i 'm using a trial version of lightroom

i haven't a mac , so i can't try aperture (is only for mac ? not a windows version)
i have a question

what has aperture better then lightroom ?

has aperture more & better features?

nobody knows?

because i'm thinking to buy a mac only for aperture

Reasonable comparison here http://digitalmedia.or​eilly.com …ightroom-vs-aperture.html

i looked at lightroom but swaped and went mac and aperture i love it find it so much more enjoyable (is that possable) to work with. my only gripe was that i had to buy PS again which is a pain in the rear when i vary rarly use it

if you want ill post up some stuff thats been editted in Aperture for you to look at

Zilly wrote in post #3292252
i looked at lightroom but swaped and went mac and aperture i love it find it so much more enjoyable (is that possable) to work with. my only gripe was that i had to buy PS again which is a pain in the rear when i vary rarly use it

if you want ill post up some stuff thats been editted in Aperture for you to look at

Why did you have to buy PS again?

I bought ps again for heavy editing

aperture is great as a photo processing (digital dark room?) organising and distribution tool but it left me wanting more when it came to image manipulation. So i stumped up the cost of Photoshop (cost me £112 )

Zilly wrote in post #3292303
I bought ps again for heavy editing

aperture is great as a photo processing (digital dark room?) organising and distribution tool but it left me wanting more when it came to image manipulation. So i stumped up the cost of Photoshop (cost me £112 )

I know why PS is needed but wasn't sure if you already had a version of PS and bought it again when you switched to MAC. If so, you could have called Adobe and had them trsfer your license from a PC version to a MAC version for a very small fee.

In2Photos wrote in post #3292465
I know why PS is needed but wasn't sure if you already had a version of PS and bought it again when you switched to MAC. If so, you could have called Adobe and had them trsfer your license from a PC version to a MAC version for a very small fee.

i rang and the lady i spoke to said is wasnt possable and had never heard of anything of the sorts

Zilly wrote in post #3292492
i rang and the lady i spoke to said is wasnt possable and had never heard of anything of the sorts

That sucks. I hear about people doing this all the time on here. I tried looking around on Adobe's site but couldn't find anything (their search feature sucks).

it didnt realy bother me as it was ps 5 or something stupid.
back to the op's question aperture for me is amazingly fast at gettin the pictures off the Camera and then straight onto the web for the press

slide card in reader start off loading directly into aperture as the pictures load i go threw and lable (apple key and numer 1-5) the ones i want then do a smart gallery to select the all 5 star images select black web layout and hit the export button while thats running i mail all the picture desks i need to and then run a automated script to up load the finished gallery to where i need it. job done

Aperture has a nicer interface, and over all organization for folders/project.

RAW conversion quality is about the same for both

The on thing LR has that Aperture doesn't (even Photoshop for that matter) is an excellent "Print" section - too long to explain just experiment.

LR requires less from a system hardware compared to Aperture.

LR does have some excellent features though so I may end up using it on my PowerBook , then again I may just add ram for Aperture up to 2 gigs and keep using it.
For now though, nothing beats Canons DPP for RAW conversions .

hannaxt wrote in post #3293105
For now though, nothing beats Canons DPP for RAW conversions .

Why do you say that? I've been using Aperture since starting in digital photography- what do you prefer about DPP?

hannaxt wrote in post #3293105
Aperture has a nicer interface, and over all organization for folders/project.

I have to disagree with you. I used aperture over lightroom. I thought lightroom was bloating too much. Then I realised how absolutely impossible aperture is with the organization and folders. Say I want to find a picture in a folder and aperture is not open. I can't. The folder/file handling mimiks iphot which was driving me up a tree.

LR is way better in that department.

I also have to disagree with the printing. I was printing from lightroom to my Pixma ip4200 and got loads of banding. So I calibratde the printer heads, printed again and still had banding. Fired up canon's own photo printing software and no banding.

There are certain features in aperture I absolutely love and wish existed in LR (like the aperture loup) I also feel LR is more selfexplanatory in it's interface and easier to use. Aperture was a bit too much running around reading help files just to get started. Never had that with LR. I'm now reading Scott Kelby's book on LR just because I want to learn more about it.

Horses for courses really. Chose what works for you.

will be an aperture for pc out?

RichNY wrote in post #3293401
Why do you say that? I've been using Aperture since starting in digital photography- what do you prefer about DPP?

The colors are way better in some (difficult) circumstances.