Lightroom 3 or Aperture 3 on a Mac

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Lightroom 3 or Aperture 3 on a Mac

Guys I just started messing with Lightroom 3 on my macbook air and it looks very user friendly, for the last month I have been trying Aperture 3 on my Mac computer and that is also quite user friendly just wondered if any of you guys are using any of these programs and wanted to help me decide here what I should buy and in your opinions what is the best of these for my photo editing?????
Thanks in advance
 
My personal very amateur opinion is Lightroom is superb, however there is quite a price differential to consider.
 
Nope, Apple now sell Aperture considerably cheaper through the Mac app store, £45 i think.
They are fairly similar, but I prefer aperture's simple layout. You can trial both for free, why not just run them back to back for a month.
 
When I trialled Lightroom 2.0 and Aperture 2 back to back I preferred Lightroom, mainly because I'd been using it since v1.0. However, coming to both with no preference today I would go for Aperture, mainly due to the price difference, but both have their benefits.
 
WoW I see that Lightroom is 300 bucks and Aperture is 80 bucks thats a hell of a difference..............do like the look of Lightroom though
 
I have aperture 3, and was wondering if you can copy all the images in from iphoto, "without" taking even more HD space up? I know there is an option to import them all, but it says it will take 8GB of space.....
 
I personally use aperture. Have used LR3 but found aperture much easier to work with and it makes managing workflow a lot easier for me, but you might think the opposite - definitely worth trailing first though :)
 
jordanogrady said:
I have aperture 3, and was wondering if you can copy all the images in from iphoto, "without" taking even more HD space up? I know there is an option to import them all, but it says it will take 8GB of space.....
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Think you may have to copy them and then delete the iphoto library of images. Not certain though as not done it myself.
 
I just started trying the lightroom and first impressions are I like it, but at 300 bucks its wants to be nice.
I like the way you can easily add a watermark.........like that a lot
 
Not too experienced at Lightroom, but have Aperture 3... you can easily do watermarks in Aperture too...

Aperture seems to do everything I want it to. It's not quite as intuitive as Capture NX (not tried NX2 yet) but I do like the results I've got so far - any touching up looks pretty natural to me. Plus, you can export any images for more PP into Photoshop if you need to... P!$$ed off that it's come down in price so much though!
 
+1 for app3 plus I copied over from iphoto but never checked to see if they are still in iphoto as I never use it now.
 
If you have kids of school age you can buy Lightroom 3 under a student liscence for £65.

Check out Pugh Computers (lots of other titles available too)

Cheers
Aled
 
As someone from a publishing background and used to other Adobe products (esp InDesign which has now really overtaken Quark), but a complete newbie on photography I found Aperture fantastic (rather than Lightroom which I expected to prefer). The workflow is very intuitive (including the bulk processing options), and there seem to be a lot of plug-ins that can enhance the editing options. However, for e, the existing functions are more than enough for now - particularly impressed with the way it can detect edges etc.

+1 for Aperture from me.
 
ndwgolf said:
My daughter is in Uni will that help
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Yup that's absolutely fine, as long as she's in education, she's (you're ;) ) entitled to an educational discount.

Another great website for educational discounts on software is software4students.co.uk Photoshop CS5 is only £166

Cheers
Aled
 
Another one for Aperture here, tried Lightroom but Aperture just seemed more intuitive after initially starting to use PP on iphoto.
 
Been playing with it a little more this morning... Anything that you can't do, you can send the file to an external editor, such as Photoshop, do whatever you need to do there... click Save and it's automatically updated in Aperture... Lightroom probably has the same kind of thing, but it's dead easy to do in Aperture :thumbs:
 
I use Lightroom and I love it's workflow. There's little I could suggest to improve it.
 
On a Mac the key differentiator between LR and Aperture is a) integration with the Apple Media Browser and thus making your photo library, projects, albums etc all meta data available to any application thus saving you making copies exporting jpegs etc, and b) the implementation of the brushes is incredibly powerful, very powerful indeed.
 
So would you advise to import all albums to aperture 3 and not use iphoto at all? Can you sync to iPhone through aperture and everything?
 
Yes :) No need for iPhoto, as I said Aperture unlike Lightroom fully integrated with the Media Browser that operates througout OSX and thus can also directly sync from your raw files together with whatever adjustments you have added and set as the primary.
 
dejongj said:
Yes :) No need for iPhoto, as I said Aperture unlike Lightroom fully integrated with the Media Browser that operates througout OSX and thus can also directly sync from your raw files together with whatever adjustments you have added and set as the primary.
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Perfect! I shall do this tomorrow now! Thanks!
 
ndwgolf said:
Yes you can but the choice in Lightroom is is more and for some reason I cant do it in Aperture without downloading a third party program
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There is no need for a third party program to add a watermark in Aperture, well sort of, you do need to make a image as your watermark in the first place, it won't let you just define some text as your watermark.


Aperture all the way on a mac, don't waste the extra £180 that Adobe want when you can you it all in Aperture for £45.
 
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