What do you have to say about Aperture? http://www.apple.com/aperture

These folks seem to love it: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=273194

A company focusing on the digikid market to the exclusion of all else wouldn't have come out with Aperture. Nor would it continue to support its current crop of pro apps nor transition to a new CPU architecture so that Macs can finally reach speed parity (forget speed superiority we're just trying to leave speed inferiority behind for good for now) with PCs.

Food for thought.

Aperture looks pretty pro to me. Seems a step in the right direction, away from simple casual use and away from the interface overshadowing the creative work. The interface of aperture is decidedly less goofy than the rest of Aqua.

But if you look close, it's still locked into that OS X comfort zone, where it's all about massing files together in a junk drawer and sorting them out server-style. The actual TOOLS are pretty straightforward. Nothing other apps haven't done in some way. I'm not saying they're not important, or sophisticated... I'm saying that at first glance, the software doesn't seem to be anything that OS X hasn't already shown us it can do in other apps. And Apple stuff is always designed to look WAY better at first glance, than it is designed to function with hard pro use. Apple has decided on a few things they think pros need to do, and just re-skinned it all to look more pro.

But there probably wouldn't have been an aperture without iPhoto. They were adding tools to that before they simply splintered it off into another app that they could just charge more for.

The jury will be out until I see how the app performs in the real world. Sure, it'll be fun to play with the loupe and light table... but I'll be keeping my eye on whether it constantly hangs up and beachballs, or forgets the positioning of my photos on the light table... and if it can handle squillions of files the day of the deadline with other crap going on.

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Originally posted by NDPTAL85:
What do you have to say about Aperture? http://www.apple.com/aperture

These folks seem to love it: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=273194

A company focusing on the digikid market to the exclusion of all else wouldn't have come out with Aperture. Nor would it continue to support its current crop of pro apps nor transition to a new CPU architecture so that Macs can finally reach speed parity (forget speed superiority we're just trying to leave speed inferiority behind for good for now) with PCs.

Food for thought.

arstechnica has tested aperture.

Read for yourselves. The result is (sadly) as expected.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/aperture.ars/9

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Originally posted by NDPTAL85:
These folks seem to love it: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=273194

Well, MacNN... Well... Don't take those funnies too serious. <out of control bash-warning=on> Many ppl over there need RAID, Quad G5, "Pro"-Apps for exporting to Flickr... Well.. <bash-warning=off> ... In case of Aperture they'll need more processiong power than is available on the whole market, that's coding for the future, good job (cr)apple :-)

I haven't touched Aperture and i personally have no need for it. I want LESS tools, not more.

Quote from the downsides of Aperture:
"Tiny fonts and reverse type throughout the interface are hard on the eyes". Well, it refreshes an issue OS X has since birth. Really small fonts suck a lamas ass in OS X, but they are still used. They are use in some dialogs and in such "pro"-Apps... I mean the normal sized fonts are worse enough, but the tiny ones are a violation of UI-, Pixel-, and Font-Standards for human beings! I'm *wack* now.