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It works. My brother is a photographer and uses it.

Donkey Butter wrote:

you could go with adobe's Lightroom

I have just started using it and so far so much better then iPhoto.

I've heard of it.  That's the one I was referring to when I mentioned that Aperture was the new baby on the market.  I'm sure it's better than iPhoto, but, how does it stack up against Aperture?

If your computer is up to it, Aperture rocks. Freakin' Awesome.

.tsooJ

Apeture makes heavy demands upon memory and graphics functions. Lots of RAM is needed and a good video card, note that this doesn't mean one that is built to support gaming graphics.

Alien wrote:

Let's just say that if you are still using that machine quoted in your signature, both you and it will be driven to tears by Aperture.

.tsooJ

I see what you mean and I'm kind of feeling that now my computer is, well, antiquated.  Yes, I still have that computer, but I also have a MacBook Pro.  I would like to buy a Mac Pro but I don't have the money.  Hell, I don't even have the money for an iMac.  I'm thinking about using my MBP as my computer and just buy external HDs to store all my information.  In my current set-up I already have a couple of externals where I store my music (mp3s) and another one for concerts.  I'm thinking of getting one for photos.

Going by what you say, I would be using Aperture with my MBP, not my G4.

An iMac would also handle Apeture adequtely.

avkills wrote:

I have had Aperture for a couple of months and really like it.  I also have Photoshop, and the only complaint is that they (being Apple) could have made it a lot easier to integrate with Photoshop; but I am still quite happy.  Camera is a Canon 40D.

-mark

Thanks Mark.  Let me ask you this, could you work with Aperture alone?  I mean, without using any other photography software (like Photoshop or Lightroom, etc)?  Thanks.

I use Aperture on a CoreDuo Macbook Pro with 2 gigs of RAM and I find it works fairly well.

Aperture works great for most basic image tuning, as well as some tweaking (cloning out dust spots).  Version 2 supports plugins as well, so more functionality will be available that way as well.

For serious work I still use photoshop, but for the vast majority of what i do I find Aperture works really well.  Now I just need to find 300 bucks for the Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 Aperture plugin.

Really? No Lightroom users? I tried them both and preferred Lightroom by far. Just interface differences, really. At the time I felt Lightroom was the better performer, tho I found them both dog slow on my old 1.67 G4 PBook, Lightroom was just slightly less slow. Now I'm on a 2.16 C2D MBP and things are better-ish. I'd be willing to try Aperture again, but with nearly 30K photos that could be a chore. Don't expect either to run well hardware more than a couple years old.

Lightroom has "plug-ins" and filters.

I use it everyday.