Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Did they get anything right in 2.0?
Here, courtesy of Apple’s Software Update utiity, are the ‘enhancements’ (in geek that means ‘bug fixes’) to Aperture 2.1.

With so many mistake corrections, you have to wonder what else is lurking out there. And no mention of whether they have fixed the main Aperture problems - the fact […]

It still cooks!
You can read about how to migrate from Aperture to Lightroom here.
Given the great speed and smoothness of Lightroom on my MacBook (1.83gHz Intel Core2Duo, 2gB RAM, Intel GMA950 graphics card, OS 10.4.11) I thought it might be fun to try it on my old iMac (1.25gHz IBM G4 PPC, 1gB of RAM, […]

What a shame and what a waste of time.
This article is very long, very detailed and very important if you want to migrate from Apple’s Aperture (any version) to Adobe’s Lightroom (v 1.3.1). Oh! boy, does that sound pompous or what? As far as I know these are the only two applications which […]

More disappointments.
This follows on from Part I and Part II. To date I have been using the 30 day trial of Aperture 2.0.
I ordered the disc version of Aperture 2.0 as a $99 upgrade as I was hoping it would come with a proper instruction book rather than the 500+page PDF manual offered on the […]

Speed increase - yeah, right! Plus some comments on the enhanced picture controls.
Speed:
You can find Part I of this review here.
Here’s why you read this site. Repeat after me. No commercial gain is made by the writer. That means unlike most ‘reviewers’ out there, I tell it as it is. […]

An update, but is it worth the money?
Apple made Version 2 of Aperture available today and you can download a trial version from their web site.
The trial version will not allow you to import images from your old Aperture library (what kind of trial is that, Apple?) but you can clunk your way around their […]