Apple Aperture 1.5

June 17, 2010 | By In Software |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Mel Rose on June 17th, 2010

    Forget about this product. Managing photo collections is a horrible slow-motion experience filled with bombs, unexplainable occurrences and incredibe inefficiency. This program was not ready for release and it shows in almost every phase of the application. The interface is terrible and the results are inconsistent and amateurish. This program DOES NOT run like the Quicktime demos which Apple shows. In action the most consistent feature is a spinning beachball as the application plods through even minor tasks. Check back again in two years when Apple either “upgrades” this to a real product or allows this pig to die a well-deserved death.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. orangekay on June 17th, 2010

    I wanted to like this product. I really, really did. The quickie demo movies all made it seem like it was a breeze to use, but for me, the reality is very different.

    Out of all the Pro apps, this one has the most ill-conceived user interface. Even if you are very highly experienced with other raw conversion software packages out there (and I’ve used pretty much all of them extensively), very little is obvious, and the button tooltips are sparse and non-descriptive. Granted, it’s a complex product that does complex things, but I have a hard time believing anyone on the engineering team responsible for this heap has any professional photography or retouching experience whatsoever. Logic and Final Cut have even higher feature densities, and they still manage to put the controls where you expect them to be when you expect them to be there. The obvious difference of course is that Logic and Final Cut were both developed by someone other than Apple originally, and those people knew what they were doing.

    It’s also very, very slow. Think you’re going to whiz through adjustments like they do in the demo movies? Unless you’ve got a top-of-the-line Intel system, think again. Even with the loupe view active, on my G5 I get nothing but beachball cursors for anywhere from 10-30 seconds every time I touch an adjustment slider, and frequently the image just plain fails to update at all.

    Probably the single biggest Aperture flaw however is its arrogant solipsism. Even though everybody knows this is not supposed to be a Photoshop replacement, Apple seems to have gone out of its way to pretend that Photoshop doesn’t exist. Aperture cannot read or display anything but the absolute simplest of Photoshop files, so if you need to do some localized adjustments non-destructively with layers, you can pretty much forget about round-tripping them back into Aperture. They’ll either display as absolute garbage, or as a simple white square with a text message alerting you to the fact that “This layered Photoshop file was not saved with a composite image” in multiple languages.

    And of course, it doesn’t support DNG files, tethered shooting or medium format backs, either. Isn’t this supposed to attract the pros?

    I have no doubt that some people will love this app, but every time I launch it I find myself wincing. Lightroom is by no means a perfect product and I have a great many complaints about the way it does some things, too, but at the end of the day, it does let me get my work done pretty quickly. I cannot say the same about Aperture, and its price tag is frankly just ridiculous.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  3. HRHB on June 17th, 2010

    This is a powerful program with FAR more pros than cons.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  4. Stephen Green on June 17th, 2010

    I have Aperture, but I haven’t touched it since Apple introduced iPhoto ’08.

    For organizing your photos–even by the thousands– nothing beats iPhoto. Better still, iPhoto ’08 comes for free on a new Macintosh, or can upgrade to it for eighty bucks with the purchase of Apple’s latest iLife suite. For 90% of what I need to do, iPhoto does just fine. For the other 10% of my photo editing needs, the heavy-duty stuff, nothing but full-on Photoshop CS3 will do.

    So where does that leave Aperture? In between the cracks of iPhoto and Photoshop.

    There’s nothing wrong with Aperture. But it’s not the organizer that iPhoto ’08 is, and it’s a much weaker editor than Photoshop. Save yourself the money and don’t bother.
    Rating: 3 / 5

  5. M. K. Brown on June 17th, 2010

    I’ve owned this software since it’s ridiculously overpriced $500 1.0 inception. Even at it’s latest 1.5.1 $299 version Apple should still be ashamed of themselves. I use Final Cut Studio and own 3 recent Macs, so I’ve been devoted to Apple to say the least. I am a professional wedding photographer/videographer. I have been more than patient with this software. It looks great, up to Apple’s standards in design and vision but remains absolutely plagued with bugs. And unless you pay Apple laughable amounts of money (much more than the cost of the software itself!), they will not provide support on anything except installation…even if there software update is the source of the issue. As someone who has been such an Apple fan, I feel obligated to let everyone know that unless you enjoy pulling your hair out and repeating tasks over and over again do yourself a favor and DOWNLOAD LIGHTROOM FROM ADOBE.
    Rating: 1 / 5

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