I've been using aperture for a couple of years, and find it much more flow-full than lightroom 3 beta was.
From where I sit, LR had a bit too much "we mapped out the use cases and mapped each to a screen with a set of tools" Aperture is more "here are your photos, everything rotates around them."
That might be familiarity effects, but Aperture has a downloadable demo version, too.
OTOH, it hides your photos in a magic folder type of .aplibrary which the OS then doesn't let you open in the finder. Under that is a normal file-system based database with files & xml edits. They nominally pay lots of attention to photog concerns about originals, but if iphoto just screwed you, you might not want to give apple another chance.
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Aperture
Date: 2010-11-16 03:50 pm (UTC)From where I sit, LR had a bit too much "we mapped out the use cases and mapped each to a screen with a set of tools" Aperture is more "here are your photos, everything rotates around them."
That might be familiarity effects, but Aperture has a downloadable demo version, too.
OTOH, it hides your photos in a magic folder type of .aplibrary which the OS then doesn't let you open in the finder. Under that is a normal file-system based database with files & xml edits. They nominally pay lots of attention to photog concerns about originals, but if iphoto just screwed you, you might not want to give apple another chance.