Apple releases Aperture 3

You're welcome, Roger. ; Yeah, I am excited about having multiple libraries. Makes more sense to me than the projects which I will now use the way I believe they were intended to be used. ; Still on the fence about using Aperture to control photo locations. ; I like my hard drive folder setup for the physical files and Aperture for the Subject organization.

 

Yep, that's what I do and will probably continue to so. The experts seem to prefer letting Aperture do it.

 

Or get Nik's Viveza plug-in for the U-Point technology then you won't need Capture NX.

Of course, brushes looks Nik-like. ; Will be interesting to see how it works. ; Would really like to change out some of the dull gray skies from the December trip. ;

 

Here's another little nugget of information. ; Plug-ins only run in 32-bit mode until they get updated.

http://thedigitalstory.com/2010/02/switching_aperture_t.html

 

Actually, NX does so much more than Viveza. ; Viveza is realy only meant to adjust colors, where NX is a complete raw file editor. ; More importantly to me, NX allows for a completely non-destructive workflow. ; All of the adjustments are saved to the .NEF file as a "Step," maintaining the original image under all of the adjustments. ; Since NX saves the adjustments as steps, I can go back at any time in the future and remove any or all of the adjustments and make new changes, without affecting the original image at all.

 

Yes, you are correct. ; Aperture does the same with its own edits but plug-ins creates a new TIFF file. ; Though that still preserves the original file you can not undo the plug-in adjustment like you can in NX.

That's why Aperture 3's new brushes tools will be great to work with.

 

Thanks for the link to the videos.

I downloaded Aperture 3 trial, and am in the process of importing my iPhoto library -- it's taking a long time.

So far, this looks like a nice alternative to iPhoto (or like iPhoto on steroids); ; more powerful, more features, and just might obviate the need for Photoshop elements.

I'll keep watching the tutorial videos and start playing with some of my photos soon.

Regards,

Boris

 

So I got A3 up and running. ; It took many hours for it to import my iPhoto library. ; Now however, it runs pretty well. ; I was reading some reports on the Apple discussions boards about how it has been sluggish, but I'm not really seeing that. ; It does suck up the RAM.

Here's a shot I took yesterday and tried some of the RAW tools on. ; I am blown away by how many tools there are. ; I definitely see this as an iPhoto substitute, but I have to figure out how to make it a convenient process. ; The old iPhoto was a very simple workflow.

Regards,

Boris

Hmm, I'm having trouble getting the image to display. ; I'm using my MobileMe gallery as the image host, as I can't yet do a direct upload to SmugMug from A3, but they do have a button to publish your image to MobileMe.



Lets try this:

 

Good luck! ;

 

FWIW:

5 Reasons To Stay with Lightroom (and not switch to Aperture)

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2010/5-reasons-to-stay-with-lightroom-and-not-switch-to-aperture/