Comments on: Adobe Lightroom 3 (Beta) vs Aperture 3 from Apple Compared

By: Marcos Valdés

Marcos Valdés — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:32:14 +0000

I was a real defender on aperture, bun wen i upgraded tu Aperture 3 a was disapointed, because my mac turns really slow, I have a iMac 2.66 core2 Duo, 4GB in RAM it is incredible inhappens, I've tried everithing, clean caches, turned off the stupid face recognition, even, I've cleaned the preferences and Apertures works really slow. Ive tryed lightroom 3 ind i've falled in love because is fully compatible with PS and can export SMART LAYERS can personalize the interface, it is 64 bits and has LENS CORRECTION integrated!!!!

By: Darrell Wood

Darrell Wood — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:40:33 +0000

Sorry I disagree with the user said Aperture 3 is fast on an older Laptop. I have a 2.4ghz duo with Onboard Graphics and 4GB of Ram. I have 140 images and after 8hrs it has only imported 30k. Lightroom 3 took 5 hrs for all. I even turned off create previews to help Aperture.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:32:05 +0000

"Develop: Aperture now has a full curves option, not the limited 'parametric' curve that LR offers."

Not true. LR3 will have a fully customizable tone curve.

By: Vincent Iñaki

Vincent Iñaki — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:57:50 +0000

Hi Greg,

About a month ago I made the switch from Lightroom to Aperture.

An album in Aperture is similar to a collection in Lr. I haven't found any major differences between collection in Lr and albums in Aperture, except for the fact that you can place your albums right in a project which is very handy.

I have several folders for each kind of photography I shoot. I make a new project for each shoot in the right folder. When I've made a selection of images of a shoot I make an album for them in the project. If I have a lot of albums in one project I make a few folders in my project and arrange them the way I want…
I haven't really find a use for the light-table, so I don't really use it.

I would recommend you to download a free trial and find out yourself how you can make use of these organizational features in your workflow.

Hope this helps.
Vincent

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:57:09 +0000

Not a comment – but a question for youz guyz that know BOTH LR and AP3 – I understand that LR has 'collections' – and AP3 has "albums" and "folders" and Projects" and 'lightboxes" – Which one of those AP3 most closely resembles the LR 'collection'? Is this a serious distinction? How are you using these in real life? And insight would be really helpful to me… Thanks!

By: dinno

dinno — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:24:32 +0000

As a sports photographer shooting MLB baseball I need to process, edit, and caption after the game. The key for me is speed and accuracy (i.e. checking for sharpness) after loading Aperture 3.03 I can honestly say that Aperture now completely destroys LR in speed (yeah thats right) what a difference. This is taken from a guy that switched over 100k of images from aperture 2 to LR because I couldn't take the poor performance issues. I mean when loading an image LR3 takes about 5 to 10x longer than aperture and when I'm on a deadline viewing approx 1000 images per shoot. what a difference. Also looks like aperture worked out their Metadata compatability issue. (yes metadata can be read and saved so PM (photomechanic) can read it. Also bonus both rating stars can be transferred. I might consider just using aperture in my next game and eliminate PM. Thats how peppy aperture 3 is. Also, I'm not using a super duper labtop, mac pro 2.14 with 2gb ram.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:50:59 +0000

Aperture does not have custom adjustment brushes, like lightroom. (or does it – I cannot find them)

By: David Chin

David Chin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:54:37 +0000

@thanos – LR3 can run in 64-bit mode too.

By: thanos

thanos — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:32:34 +0000

Aperture 3. is 64 bit. This is important when you need to work or just organize large images. Lightroom 3 crashes when I try to import images bigger than lets say 2 GIG.