I know that Aperture has been productive for digital photography but I was wondering whether Aperture is better than iPhoto/Photoshop for scanned film? Iphoto for catalogue and Photoshop for the editing.
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Can Aperture be used for scanned film?
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I might be confused by your question, but scanned film becomes a digital copy of your photo. So yes, Aperture will work great for organizing.
Once your neg is scanned it is a digital file and as such you can use any editing software program.
Personally I prefer Photoshop for any editing and iPhoto for cataloging.
FJ
Personally I prefer Photoshop for any editing and iPhoto for cataloging.
FJ
Forgive me if I am stating the obvious here - but think of Aperture as the big brother of iphoto. More functionality, faster and better workflow, etc. But in principle Aperture and iphoto do the same thing. Cataloguing software with some minor editing functions.
For all the major editing you still need to rely on an editor, e.g. Photoshop.
Yes. Aperture has much better cataloging abilities than does iPhoto. And it has basic "dust busting" tools and offers more sophisticated color and exposure adjust so you may not need Photoshop. The only reason to prefer iPhoto over Aperture is either
- You don't want to go through Aperture's much steeper learning curve
- Your hardware can't run Aperture (You need a high-end Mac)
- You don't want to spend $300
One frustrating thing about Aperture though: you can't modify the date field in the metadata.
If you can, and I'm wrong, will someone please correct me? However I'm pretty sure I'm correct. And it would be nice to edit that field because obviously the scanned date has little correlation with the actual date the photo was taken (or painting was painted, etc.)
If you can, and I'm wrong, will someone please correct me? However I'm pretty sure I'm correct. And it would be nice to edit that field because obviously the scanned date has little correlation with the actual date the photo was taken (or painting was painted, etc.)
Sounds goodLooks like I will have to install Aperture onto my MacBook
You can run it yes, but it is slow as hell seeing as how graphics-card-dependent Aperture is
Would that be slow as hell without any other programs or with 10 other programs open?
Would that be slow as hell without any other programs or with 10 other programs open?
If you have 2GB of RAM it will be acceptable. It sometimes slows down on my MBP if I ask it to render to many RAWs to JPEG at once.