Finally decided to go with Apple’s Aperture 3 over Adobe’s Lightroom 2. I realize that Lightroom is the preferred standard amongst professional photographers, but I’ve never really like the layout and its cheesy graphics. Stupid reasons, but I just don’t understand why Adobe didn’t incorporate raw editing into their cataloging program, Bridge. Anyhow, random thoughts on the program as I work through editing the last four months of travel images.

Hopefully Apple will develop a non-destructive lens correction tool before the next revision (and the next release of lightroom)! Exporting files for editing in other programs such as Photoshop or PTlens creates 100mb psd files. At which point makes non-destructive editing useless.

Ended up buying PTlens, which is now 64-bit compatible! No more restarting into 32-bit mode. The PTlens goes for 25USD.

The same cheesy cork background found in iphoto.

You can turn off the cheesy background, but not the cheesy non-’professional’ font.

Now this might be a serious problem! A dozen or so of my images disappeared leaving only the thumbnails behind. BUT as the previews still exist, I don’t see how I could have deleted them myself. Damn, for an Apple product, Aperture is quite confusing. There’s albums, projects, smart albums, and then photos and projects again under the main library. Its much faster to work out of an album under a project, but if then if you delete an image it only removes it from the project and NOT the library. or maybe it does… damn, Apple needs to separate remove and delete into two menu options!

A small annoyance at the moment and hopefully this doesn’t get worse after I import my entire iphoto library from the last ten years, BUT thumbnails are failing to update. In fact, some pics don’t even have any adjustments applied to them, they are just jacked. The solution I found is to reprocess the master, but for 45,000 images??? ugghhhhh