Comments on: Ten reasons a Pro needs to make the Aperture switch

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:04:34 +0000

Thanks for all your thoughts on aperture. I would like to ask this question, can some one tell me how to make professional photos with aperture? I mean how it works.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:12:45 +0000

i prefere lightroom and capture nx to be honest

And its cross platform meaning i can share libraries across computers

By: David V.

David V. — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:08:00 +0000

I’ll join the crowd saying I prefer Lightroom.

There are some UI elements that I preferred in Aperture (e.g., its pretty seamless integration with iLife), and I do like the idea of its “Books” feature (though I never used it). However, Lightroom easily wins in the nondestructive editing (“development”) area; for example, adjustments can be “brushed” locally in Lightroom, not in Aperture. The printing interface is Lightroom is also noticeably nicer. Finally, Photoshop integration is also better in Lightroom.

By: Yash

Yash — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:10 +0000

whoa! Dude, you completely left out the bigest concern for professional photographers-Raw support. And not all RAW softwares are built equal. Some people will swear by Capture NX others with capture one.

By: Zathan

Zathan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:01:56 +0000

I’m not usually one to comment, but I thought I had to after reading this post.

This was a horrible comparison. As someone else said it was just regurgitating Apple’s marketing points.

I stumbled across SmokingApples sometime ago and though initially was a good blog, but as of late the quality of the posts have been lame at best.

Sorry, but I think you just lost a reader.

By: Mike O'Brien

Mike O'Brien — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:15:17 +0000

I just started using Aperture and like it in many of the ways outlined, but I am having issues–as one example, when in “printer manage” mode my HP 9180 printer does not recognize Aperture versions, it prints the original image. Kind of a showstopper for now. I waited until 2.0 knowing that Apple usually releases products with bugs in them, but there are still problems that make this software less than professional.