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| From: Apple
List Price: $199.00
Buy New: $149.00
New (8) from $149.00
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 119
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard Edition
Operating System: PowerMac
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: MB284Z/A
Model: MB284Z/A
UPC: 885909193608
EAN: 0885909193608
ASIN: B000BX5IKI
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 A photographer's workflow April 18, 2008
yogagirl (chicago)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Using Aperture for awhile, I can see it is geared toward the pro photographer who wants to have their workflow in one program. It does a really good job targeting that traditional photographer market gone digital. The interface uses analogies for the different areas that a photographer feels comfortable with. You shoot, get it into Aperture, and then organize and process.
Photoshop is a competing product, not not really so. Its a complimentary product if you need to do photo work of a different sort, like photo illustration and retouching.
If you are a photographer first, and want an application that is going to get you organized and efficient, this is a great program. Other users can get by with Photoshop just fine.
Excellent product, glad I bought it. April 21, 2008
Scott Sherman (Valencia, CA United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have LIghtroom and Aperture on my MBP. I have decided to uninstall LIghtroom after using both for about a year now. Both are excellent,but with Aperture integrating my images into all my other programs is effortless. Also the price is now more competitive and the ability to use Photoshop style plugins make it a no brainer. Highly recommend.
Purchased on the Strength of Aperture 1.5 March 4, 2008
voiceoverthewall.com (United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I own the non-upgradable Aperture 1.5 Academic, so I had to buy the full version of Aperture 2. Other than this ridiculous and expensive policy, I am thoroughly pleased with Aperture. 1.5. Knowing this, I ordered my Aperture 2 copy with much enthusiasm!
I am very excited about the user interface changes, database structure changes, speed increases, and the new tools (vignetting, vibrancy, definition, etc).
It looks like Apple has still ignored everyone's request for easy dvd burning directly from within Aperture though. Correct me if I am wrong (please!)...why do I have to export my versions/masters to a folder and then burn the folder? I'd like to be a able to click on an Aperture Project or Album and burn! Its a simple request.
Outstanding RAW Workflow Manager July 1, 2008
James D. DeWitt (Fairbanks, AK United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you shoot in RAW and manage large numbers of photos, you need to give very serious consideration to Aperture 2. The program provides truly outstanding RAW conversion tools - greatly superior to Adobe's free Digital Negative Converter. It provides very flexible, easy-to-use tools to compare and rate photos, including stacks, ratings and comparison tools. The library management tools are truly outstanding, giving you multiple levels of keywords, a variety of tools for organizing your shots, and a hierarchical system for organization. And it links tightly to the photo editing application(s) of your choice.
Batch processing is well-supported, both on import and on photo selections. Essentially all data associated with the photos - both image details and EXIF - can be handled individually or at a batch level.
Famously, Aperture makes its edits to photos by linked mathematical formulas; the RAW photo itself is not touched. So manipulations can always be reversed. This also keeps the photo database from growing through duplicate files; there's just one file, and a series of small files representing the edits.
Aperture isn't perfect. While it is adequate for simple edits to photos, you'll still need a tool like Photoshop of Elements to perform serious adjustments to your photos. Aperture does a fine job of working with those photo editors. And Apple can be slow - sometimes, seriously slow - supporting the RAW formats of newly released cameras. In the case of the Olympus E-3, the camera was released for five months before Aperture could import its RAW format. There are always worksarounds - Adobe DNG if nothing else - and in fairness to Apple, its Aperture RAW converters are outstanding, but be prepared for a wait if you have new model camera. And Aperture demands significant resources: at least G5 (an Intel chip is better), at least 2 GB RAM (4GB _much_ better), an approved video card, hard rive space adequate to your projected ibrary and a backup or removable drive to hold a backup (a "vault").
Perhaps best of all, Aperture lets you define your own workflow. Adobe Lightroom, by contrast, pretty much imposes its workflow structure on you. You can do things in the order you want, not the order some programmer wants.
If you are new to Aperture, I recommend the Classroom in a Book tutorial, Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 (Apple Pro Training Series).
I could not be happier with this program. I have some 25,000 shots, and add 1,000-2,000 per month. It has been flawless. And I've never lost a photo.
My highest recommendation.
way better than 1.5 March 24, 2008
Jeremy Burton
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you want more control than iphoto, but easy to use this app is great.
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