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Apple is selling what should have been a free update to iPhoto. Worse, it confuses iPhoto into creating multiple copies of each photo, and has a schizo stacking algorithm.
The omissions are glaring.
No duplicate finder, no layers, weak cropping and poor output controls.
They have, however, jumped on the “pug-in” train to up-sell even more “features” which ought to come with a program like this.
No where near as good as even Photoshop Elements, and even slower, even on fast hardware.
Apple should go back to photography school.
Rating: 2 / 5
i did receive the item quick I thought for the price I would get a new CD only to find the one sent scratched.
Rating: 2 / 5
And the quick answer is No .. Let me cut to the bone straight away – Aperture 1*, 2.0,*, 2.1* simply destroy fine(est) detail of raw files during the demosaicing / raw processing stage !! I’ve tested this with LC1, L1 and Sony R1 raw images against FREE tool X .. I could not believe my eyes at 100 – 150% – it was all so obvious .. Since, i have sold my 2 Mac books and have moved back to the hell of Window$ – the image processing quality being at the top of the list of this painful change. Tool X, obviously is Win only at this stage.
There are other drawbacks in the Aperture 2* release, like nthe organizing of everything in proprietary library, and not letting you work with the images where and how they are – being again at the top of the list. Here is where the pain of moving images from “input to output folder’ comes from.. I can see now screaming posts “THIS IS NOT IMAGE MANAGEMENT / ORGANISATION TOOL STUPID!” So, wtf must i go somewhere else, once my images are processed / final in A ???! How difficult is it to implement a ‘Elements’ approach ?
Sharpening – substandard.. Noise removal – if i had to use it – substandard. No true inclusion of 3rd party plugins, but simply a jump out to same .. Silver Efex Pro, painfully slow .. Every plugin i tested – painfully slow
Awaiting rel 3 in order to run tests on new and preserved raw images, at this point i believe Apple have lost it and are continuously loosing share in the apps / image management arena
Rating: 2 / 5
I originally bough this product for the web-publish feature in Aperture, but to my disappointment this feature is terrible slow if you have large files it could take hours to publish them to the web and It distorts your image size. Bottom line, don’t waste your money.
Rating: 2 / 5
After a long time using Photo Shop on my MacBook Pro, I was persuaded to buy and try Aperture 2. After a week of using this product, I have encountered numerous problems, including: It stalls out for no apparent reason when cloning; It is incredibly slow. Also, it has locked up several times to the point that I had to restart my computer to clear the problem.
Stick with Photo Shop. Aperture 2 does not measure up.
Rating: 1 / 5