Aperture or Lightroom?

[Soda Farl]

Total newbie so please excuse my ignorance but what are the pro's and cons of both.

I have access to both and I use all Apple kit would I be better of with Aperture?

 

[ruvor]

you'd be better off with whichever you prefer using. There are free trials of both. Aperture is slightly cheaper.

 

[grum]

Lightroom for me - so fast and powerful.

 

[cricalix]

I'd echo ruvor's comment - you can download both applications to try them. I use LR2, but I'm on a Windows platform so I can't really run Aperture. Both apps are good, so it's just finding which one works for -you-.

 

[inView]

Used both and would say the same as everyone else in try both and see which you prefer. The latest incarnation of Aperture is very impressive but suspect Lightroom 3 will raise the bar considerably.
I use Lightroom and though its taking me some time to learn it ( I had no workflow before so had to learn from scratch) it is worthwhile. Another product to consider is Photo mechanic, loads of Pro's swear by it in part of their workflow.

 

[Lightstalker]

Try Capture One too, I never liked it personally but it's industry standard for upper tier fashion pros.

Personally I use Bridge/Photoshop CS4/5 and OnOne Phototools Pro.
Used Aperture for a while but got peed off with it hogging (I use an 8-core Mac) resources, Lightroom is niftier, but again it's preference here, no real winner.

 

[Marc]

It really is different for different people. I bough a mac last year which came with the trial for Aperture installed. I downloaded the Lightroom trial and used both for that period. For me, Lightroom came out a clear winner but it may be the other way round for you.

 

[intotherainbow]

I've used Aperture for quite a long time, I tried Lightroom once but I just can't switch to it (by that time, the Aperture 3.0 just came out nicely..)
The lightroom maybe faster, but I just work faster with Aperture...

 

[Jayst84]

I started with Aperture, but soon switched to Lightroom. It ran much faster for me, and I got on with the library system a lot better. No virtual copies or anything hogging disk space either.

A lot has probably changed in the last few years though.

FWIW I cannot get on with CaptureOne, it doesn't seem to have anywhere near the facilities for cataloging, sorting, etc that the others do. Least not last time I used it.