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Mar 03, 2008 19:57 |  #1

Mostly I would like to here from Aperture folks as I can see that lightroom has lots of content here.

Well I am looking at lightroom and Aperature. My problem is that with lightroom, I would also have to buy lumapix to do book layouts. With Aperature I can do book layouts, but I'm not sure how limited it is.

I will be downloading trials, but I wanted to know from other wedding photogs what they think of their workflow with these combinations.


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Mar 03, 2008 19:59 |  #2

If you have 2 monitors, the choice is easy. Aperture does dual monitors beautifully, light room does not.

New aperture version 2 is great, with the vibrancy slider and the vignetting (which LR also does have) I rarely have to load photoshop. It's extremely quick as well.

I tried lightroom and I felt the aperture interface was better. It'll end up being a personal choice of what suits you better.


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Mar 03, 2008 20:03 |  #3

sej, Have you used the photo book features?


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Mar 03, 2008 20:12 |  #4

No but I'm about to try as i hard a rumour that the quality is better than the iphoto ones.

The iphoto books compress the hell out of the pics


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Mar 03, 2008 20:16 |  #5

sej wrote in post #5042856 (external link)
The iphoto books compress the hell out of the pics

That's not good news.


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Mar 03, 2008 20:34 |  #6

Book layouts? As in premade ones? Can't you just make your own in PS? That's what I do. DO some editing in LR then finish up if need be in PS.


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Mar 04, 2008 00:16 |  #7

I'm trying to see if someone uses Aperture for book production. If so, then what are its strengths.


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Mar 04, 2008 07:28 |  #8

It's just as I understand most use Ap or LR for initial work but PS for everything else.


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Mar 04, 2008 10:04 |  #9

No people us PS, Lumipix, MyPublisher, etc.

I guess with the lack of response, No ONE uses aperature for book layout.


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Mar 04, 2008 13:35 |  #10

I believe that aperture is a better program in all aspects... except for the most important one (to me at least): raw editing. ACR is IMO a MUCH better RAW editor than what aperture uses, and because of that I use LR. also I plan on building a computer in the future and I needed a program that could also run on windows.


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Mar 04, 2008 14:38 |  #11

sej wrote in post #5042801 (external link)
If you have 2 monitors, the choice is easy. Aperture does dual monitors beautifully, light room does not.

Really? I had no idea that LR couldn't do two displays.


"Raw" is not an acronym, abbreviation, nor a proper noun; thus, it should not be in capital letters.

  
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