Please help me decide

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At the moment and have been doing for 3 years I am using apple aperture it such a good software but lacking some editing performance I think... So I been trailing lightroom and I must say I am quite impress with it such as the noise reduction and a few other things... But I find the brush editing in aperture better than lightroom more effective such as sharpening brush..

I don't know whether to buy light room for easier quick editing for £94 as on offer


Or get nik software complete for aperture but that more money.....
 
Get Lightroom, most photographers use it as it is the best way to organise and process large quantity of photos. I dont use the adjustment brush much myself as if I need to do brush adjustment, I ll export it into Photoshop which integrates well with Lightroom
 
But buying photoshop cost more money.
 
Lightroom all the way for the reasons above. I use Photoshop CS5 and Nik Complete:thumbs: for any major adjustments.

Steve
 
vv cephei said:
Lightroom all the way for the reasons above. I use Photoshop CS5 and Nik Complete:thumbs: for any major adjustments.

Steve
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Are u a mac user? God knows how u lot afford lightroom cs5 and nik.
 
Both programs have their plus and minus points. There are some parts of Aperture that are better than Lightroom, and vice versa. Most people who use Lightroom tend to rely on either Photoshop or Elements to do the odd things that Lightroom doesn't do or doesn't do well.

It is a tough choice but consider you may need an additional program to do those functions that you now do in Aperture but can't in Lightroom.

Decisions... decisions :|
 
And a tough one

Only thing that missing on aperture is a good noise reduction and clarity control

Hmmmm
 
rookies said:
Are u a mac user? God knows how u lot afford lightroom cs5 and nik.
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Yep, on a mac. Onone perfect suit as well but don't use that much any more.

A couple of years ago we were using Bridge to organise images and PS for adjustments and then migrated to LR literally over night. We had read a book or two and watched some courses on lynda.com prior though.

Good luck with you choice :thumbs:

Steve
 
Lightroom very tempting as can get it £94 before june 7th.
 
I had a email from adobe with a link for it will see if it for certain people or anyone and let u know
 
I think that between Lightroom and Aperture there is only a slight difference, to a point that it is really down to personal preference and what you are used to.
 
Still very undecided. I love aperture but NR rubbish and to buy nik define it just as much as getting lightroom while on offer and having a few other good tweaking tools argh
 
The way I'd look at it is do you see noise reduction as more important than the general workflow of the application?
 
Craikeybaby said:
The way I'd look at it is do you see noise reduction as more important than the general workflow of the application?
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I like my photos to look good that what important to me. The file management in both I like then both for file management don't have a prob with either for that
 
rookies said:
Still very undecided. I love aperture but NR rubbish and to buy nik define it just as much as getting lightroom while on offer and having a few other good tweaking tools argh
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I love most of the nik plugins but I'm not a huge fan of dfine, it works well but is too slow on large files. Plus LR noise reduction is so good since version 3 that I don't really need to use it. My preference is LR for most post but skin retouching and cloning work done in CS5, I also use the nik plugins for final touches in CS5 as I like to use layers.

Lightroom is also very good for black and white conversion and split toning etc. If you use the techniques involving the hue sliders and camera calibration tools. But I tend to use nik silver effex pro these days, a great bit of software if you are into black and white.
 
Anymore input guys exp the ones who had used aperture
 
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