Aperture 3: 4 months on, living with Aperture

Well fortunately for me the last few months has been very busy, unfortunately that has meant my early fervour, excitement and blogging on Aperture 3 suffered. But sitting here at the end of another busy weekend at the end of another hot day (where I can't quite motivate myself to do the few bits of work I'd wanted to do tonight) I thought I'd post a bit of an Aperture update (prompted in part by a comment on one of my blog posts today). LEOPARD vs. SNOW LEOPARD My last series of slightly panic stricken posts revolved around an Aperture 2 vs. Aperture 3 speed debate. This went across a few posts: aperture-3-is-worrying-me aperture-is-worrying-me-part-2-with-numbers aperture-3-vs-aperture-2-stunned-part-3 I never really managed to finish this series off so I th ›

Aperture 3 vs. Aperture 2: STUNNED!! - part 3

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Aperture 3 vs. Aperture 2: STUNNED!! - part 3

Well part three...and I'm stunned...truly stunned :(I've just taken the same 130 files into an Apert ›

Aperture is worrying me part 2 - with numbers

So after my last post I thought I'd get some numbers behind what I was saying to see how bad the situation is (or isn't)Did the same tests on the MacPro and the MacBook Pro with the same files. MBP is running SL 130 5DmkII RAW files First processing with my default preset: MBP: 4 mins 12 seconds MP: 6 mins 5 seconds Cropping all photos: MBP: 7 ›

Aperture 3 is worrying me :(

I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a huge Aperture fan and I still use the software as the very core of my studio business but over the last few weeks Aperture has started giving me cause for concern :( I can't be 100% certain but I'm pretty sure that changes made to Aperture since version 3.0 was released have slowly but surely made things slower for me. I never ha ›

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5 reasons to make your own mind up about Aperture 3 vs. Lightroom 3

The number of websites and blogs seemingly doing battle with all their "5 reasons with Aperture is best", "5 reasons to switch to Lightroom" etc etc seem to be growing by the day, what's amusing is that a lot of the people re-tweeting these links and passing on these links probably haven't used both bits of softwa ›

Aperture 3: Library Merging (sublime new feature!)

The new Aperture 3 library management is fantastic, I've always used multiple libraries and when I just wanted to take a specific project with me someone I'd previous had to export the project then import it into a new library then export it again and re-import it. It worked just fine apart from the fact that it used up lots of extra space and was cumbersome ›

Aperture 3: Library upgrading and management

The last few days has seen some real problems with people upgrading their Aperture 2 libraries. As with all of the current Aperture 3 problems they seem to strike different people randomly, there doesn't seem to be any specific combination or hardware or library that seems to be causing the problems. One suggestion is that this is a memory leak in Aperture 3 ›

Aperture 3: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

One of the things that has become apparent over the first week of Apertures 3's life is that for some of us lucky ones (me included) Aperture 3 is rock solid and very fast. As usual the happy Aperture 3 users are probably the silent majority whereas those with issues are understandably jumping up and down getting annoyed and very frustrated!Seeing people talking about adju ›

Aperture 3: Brushes non-destructive editing at its very best

I'm so impressed with the brushes and all the little hidden settings and options that I wanted to share this excitement. The new Aperture 3 brushes are so flexible and powerful that I can't quite believe what I can achieve, and do it all non-destructively as well! BRUSH IN OR BRUSH AWAY The idea of being able to apply an adjustment that you can then brush i ›

Aperture 3: Day One

THE PLAN So I took the crazy choice today of diving into Aperture 3 with both feet! The best way of really putting it to the test. I have 7 back to back shoots booked today for a beautiful baby competition (www.mep-photography.co.uk/beautifulbaby) these mini shoots consist of about 20/25 minutes in the studio, a quick download, crop, presets and sorting and then a viewing, the whole process lasts up to an hour. This ›