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Helicon focus back to lightroom dng1/7/2024 This is really down to the fact that a lot more copies of lightroom are sold, as it is available on the Windows platform as well as the Mac. Lightroom has some features like gradient masks, which would be good to have, but then again Aperture allows you to brush in masks for single or multiple instances of the majority of the adjustments available. As for other adjustments, there is not a lot in it. Personally I never use noise reduction, don't need lens correction because that data is written to the RAW file by the camera and acted on by Aperture for all my micro 4/3 lenses. You could probably add lens correction to this list of common points where some people find LR 'superior'. Whether their aim in this interpretation is to create a neutral conversion with maximum potential for further processing, or to create something that offers a more instant gratification is open for debate Fact is neither Adobe or Apple get information about the RAW formats from the camera manufacturers and have to reverse engineer the format to create an interpretation of the data. This one is down to personal taste and cameras used.Some people prefer Apples conversion, others Adobes. Just my thoughts reasons for the opposite move, to each their own. If I still shot in JPEG I'd probably still be using Aperture and Nik software, but with RAW I moved to Lightroom and still use Nik for specific tasks like B&W conversion. To me Apple just doesn't seem to care that Aperture is falling behind, especially for people who do RAW processing. My reasons:ġ) I was never really satisfied with my RAW conversions in Aperture and my side by side results with RAW files are better in Lightroom than in Aperture.Ģ) I find the Lightroom sharpening, noise removal, and repair brushes to be superior to Aperture equivalents and I really like the grad filter and adjustment brush which Aperture lacks.ģ) Lightroom has much more support in terms of color profiles such as Huelight, books, forums, how-to's, presets, plug-ins, etc.Ĥ) On my iMac, Lightroom runs quicker than Aperture did, I don't know why but it's a noticeable change.ĥ) Finally, it's been so long since we had a real update to Aperture that I don't think it's a very high priority for Apple right now. It is always good to have options.Īfter several years of Aperture I went the other way (Aperture to Lightroom 5) a few months ago. Very likely we will see killer new versions of both LR and Aperture. So let's see what the rest of 2014 brings. But if I need serious work done, I will have the file in some combination of the Nik Collection, Perfect Photo Suite 8, Pixelmater (rarely), or Helicon (if I need to focus stack). But if I am seriously editing a photo, LR does not have the tools I likely want either! I will use LR or Aperture for basic edits. But folks will say.but Aperture does not have the editing tools that are available in LR. Also the easy of integrating Aperture library contents with other Apple apps like iMovie, Maps, Keynote.etc. Why drop LR for Aperture? Subjective UI differences.I like Aperture design better. And if Apple does deliver a big upgrade to Aperture this year, I just might drop LR completely. Either can open/use the commonly referenced originals. And of course Time Machine backups up everything.įor the time being I will have fun using both LR and Aperture. I also created an Aperture Vault as library backup. Not too bad given it reflects 56,002 photos. Given the quantity of files.a lot less problems that I would have guessed. So Aperture had no problem importing them. The last couple of days I have been importing my E-M1 raw files into LR as native ORF raw files. So the few of them I had were exported as TIF and Aperture could bring them in. My Olympus E-M1 raw files that I had converted to DNG were a problem. Aperture also imported all my DNG files that had been created from Canon CR2 originals. The older files from the 90s and early 2000s were jogs that gave no problem. So yesterday I purchased Aperture from the app store, and imported 56,002 images as referenced files (the originals stay where I put them using LR). But now that I am using more and more of the apps in the Mac ecosystem, like Maps to put GPS on old images, I want a Mac friendly photo management tool. Two years ago when I moved from PC to Mac at home, I stayed with LR. I started off on a PC many years ago with Lightroom.
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