Langester

Today Apple brought their Aperture World Tour to town and its be a long time since the last time Apple stop here. David Morrow, Apple Canadian Photo Market Manager, gave did 3 hours presentation that was really 3 hour clinic of how to use Aperture to save those poorly executed photos. In fact I think there was only about 15 slides in the deck and that only took 5 minutes to blow through. My kind of presentation: talk the walk, walk the talk.

One of the things I liked in windows Photoshop was the Album but the speed of large library as not so great, importing was a bit of pain and revisions of photos always required new files to created. I used about 8% of PhotoShop Elements, to do corrections, cropping, healing and exporting. I also found photoshop pretty clunky to use and always felt like I was using a creative tools first rather than a corrective tool which is really what I needed.

Aperture is a corrective tool and the correction abilities are staggering. Since it was built with input with the top pro’s in the world it also have pretty darn good workflow. The import and selection process can be extremely fast with lots of nice goodies, like being able to batch set photo meta data on the way into Aperture. One of the best innovations is you never touch the original photos, but rather make a receipt on how to alter the photo which is only applied with you need to output the photo or view it. This means you always have access to the original without having to create files all over the place, and when you do make a duplicate its just another receipt. Aperture is really worth a look!

Perhaps the best thing is the price point, $199 CDN for a pro level product, fantastic. I’ll be picking up a soon, just as soon as my free trial expires