Apple Aperture 1.5 [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Apple Aperture 1.5 [Old Version]
Customer Review: Niche Product Without a Niche
Summary: 3 Stars
I have Aperture, but I haven't touched it since Apple introduced iPhoto '08.
For organizing your photos--even by the thousands-- nothing beats iPhoto. Better still, iPhoto '08 comes for free on a new Macintosh, or can upgrade to it for eighty bucks with the purchase of Apple's latest iLife suite. For 90% of what I need to do, iPhoto does just fine. For the other 10% of my photo editing needs, the heavy-duty stuff, nothing but full-on Photoshop CS3 will do.
So where does that leave Aperture? In between the cracks of iPhoto and Photoshop.
There's nothing wrong with Aperture. But it's not the organizer that iPhoto '08 is, and it's a much weaker editor than Photoshop. Save yourself the money and don't bother.
Customer Review: iphoto with more teeth
Summary: 3 Stars
This program is basically a more involved iphoto. You can change levels, crop or straighten, add all your meta-info and organize the photos. If you want this to take place of photoshop cs3 or something like that, you aren't going to be happy with Aperature at all. badbadbad for image manipulation..goodgood for adjusting contrast or exposure. Actually, iphoto is good enough. Dont buy this, get photoshop.Customer Review: Pretty Good, but not outstanding
Summary: 4 Stars
Nice set of features. Pretty good raw converter, however noise reduction algorithms can be improved. Major drawback for me is under heavy usage - Aperture (with latest patches etc) regulary (once in couple of hours) crashes.Customer Review: Powerful, flexible and a resource hog
Summary: 4 Stars
I am an amateur photographer who shoots a lot of RAW files. I bought Aperture because I liked the powerful organizational and correction tools, as well as the flexibility built into the work flow. I really like being able to tag my files with keywords during the import process. Stacks are a wonderful way to quickly reduce the number of photos at which I am looking. Non-destructive editing of my files is great and I really appreciate that Aperture conserves hard drive space by not creating a new file when I apply changes. Unlike Photoshop Lightroom, which I also tried, Aperture makes it easy to do the photo management and improvement steps in any order that I choose. The one big problem is that Aperture can be very slow. I have an Intel iMac with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 3 GB of RAM. Aperture still slows down on a regular basis and makes me wait for it. The issue may be that I have only 128 MB of video RAM. I would recommend trying the trial version if there is any doubt about the speed of your Mac.Customer Review: Terrific photo organization product - and then some.
Summary: 5 Stars
Apple has again outdone themselves and created a terrific tool for organizing and cataloging photographs. There is a small learning curve, as to be expected with any product that provides so much flexibilty, but the user's manual that came with the product is excellent and walks you through everything you need to know - easily and understandably. Some of the best money I've ever spent.