Aperature - Mac - tips on Cropping

kevinsphotokevinsphoto Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
edited September 30, 2006 in Finishing School
Anyone use this instead of photo-shop? I would love to correspond with someone who knows this software inside and out...

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  • JohnRJohnR Registered Users Posts: 732 Major grins
    edited September 25, 2006
    kevinsphoto wrote:
    Anyone use this instead of photo-shop? I would love to correspond with someone who knows this software inside and out...

    I'm still in the process of learning it myself. And it's meant to work alongside Photoshop, not instead of. Why not watch the DVD tutorial that came with it?

    Also, there is an update to Aperture. http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/index.html
  • jimfjimf Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited September 26, 2006
    kevinsphoto wrote:
    Anyone use this instead of photo-shop? I would love to correspond with someone who knows this software inside and out...

    As JohnR said, try watching the video tutorial. It's actually pretty good. Cropping, though, works almost exactly like it does in Photoshop and other tools.

    I agree again with JohnR about the fact that Aperture is not a replacement for Photoshop. If you have to do any real editing at all Aperture is not sufficient. But for cropping, simple color correction, and basic tonal adjustments it's ok. I also find Aperture to be inferior as a print tool, preferring Photoshop. And why, oh why, Apple doesn't think a Curves tool is necessary in a tool like this boggles the mind.

    Mostly, though, it shines as a selection tool. If you have hundreds of shots from a shoot and need to winnow it down to a handful of money shots I've seen nothing better, although Adobe's Lightroom is a close second. (Hate Lightroom's workflow, though, which I find has the same have-to-switch-modes-all-the-time problem as I do with CaptureOne.)

    It's also a halfway decent archival tool if your image volume isn't too large. By several reports it will become a rather good archival tool in v1.5 when it picks up offline archive features, a good thing now that Microsoft owns iView (making its ongoing availability on the Mac somewhat suspect).

    Anyway if you have specific questions I could probably answer them, I make a lot of use of Aperture.
    jim frost
    jimf@frostbytes.com
  • suntzusuntzu Registered Users Posts: 31 Big grins
    edited September 29, 2006
    I'm using Aperture as my main work tool now and only use Photoshop when I have to. In a way it kind of forced me to take better pictures. Not that the pictures were all that great to begin with! :D

    As for the crop tool, I like it better because it's non-destructive and reverting back is more intuitive.

    I'm liking the 1.5 update. It has support for plugins (I'm using the Flickr plugin) so that doesn't hurt. mwink.gif
  • jimfjimf Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2006
    suntzu wrote:
    I'm liking the 1.5 update. It has support for plugins (I'm using the Flickr plugin) so that doesn't hurt. mwink.gif

    Haven't looked at any plugins yet, but I hope to be able to get more advanced color and noise management stuff than you can get from Apple.

    Maybe someone will sell me a Curves tool. That's the only feature I really, really miss that Aperture doesn't have right now.

    jim
    jim frost
    jimf@frostbytes.com
  • suntzusuntzu Registered Users Posts: 31 Big grins
    edited September 30, 2006
    jimf wrote:
    Haven't looked at any plugins yet, but I hope to be able to get more advanced color and noise management stuff than you can get from Apple.

    Maybe someone will sell me a Curves tool. That's the only feature I really, really miss that Aperture doesn't have right now.

    jim

    Looks like that might be a possibility according to the press statement:
    An innovative new export API plug-in architecture in Aperture 1.5 allows third party developers to tap into the expanding Aperture user community with plug-ins that seamlessly connect Aperture’s workflow to complementary applications and services. Plug-ins from industry leading companies, including Getty Images, iStockphoto, Pictage, Flickr, PhotoShelter, DigitalFusion, Soundslides and Connected Flow, will be demonstrated at photokina 2006. These plug-ins will demonstrate a range of printing, publishing and storage workflows that take advantage of this new architecture.

    So a developer could make one and sell it like they do with some Final Cut stuff.
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