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Aperture for Mac $79 in the just opened Mac App Store.

David EvertsenDavid Evertsen Registered Users Posts: 524 Major grins
edited January 21, 2011 in Finishing School
Just saw the new Mac App store opened and Aperture is now only $79 down from $199. I have been using LR3 for a while but may try Aperture for this price and learn it as well I wish this would put some pressure on Adobe for pricing, the APP store works through ITunes and you can re-download applications as well.
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    arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2011
    I’m an LR user but I love using Aperture for making books. I just export the images from LR in Adobe RGB (1998), bring them into an Aperture Library and use it just for making books. I still prefer LR for all the other tasks.
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    cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2011
    David Evertsen wrote: »
    Just saw the new Mac App store opened and Aperture is now only $79 down from $199. I have been using LR3 for a while but may try Aperture for this price and learn it as well I wish this would put some pressure on Adobe for pricing, the APP store works through ITunes and you can re-download applications as well.

    Well it doesn't work thru iTunes, but an important consideration is that apps in the Mac App store do not come with 'free upgrades', each new version is a new purchase, much the way it is in the iOS app store. That could be one of the considerations for the diff in pricing, but I don't own Aperature to know.

    On the other hand, apps in the Mac App store are licensed for up to 5 Macs.
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    David EvertsenDavid Evertsen Registered Users Posts: 524 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2011
    cmason wrote: »
    Well it doesn't work thru iTunes, but an important consideration is that apps in the Mac App store do not come with 'free upgrades', each new version is a new purchase, much the way it is in the iOS app store. That could be one of the considerations for the diff in pricing, but I don't own Aperature to know.

    On the other hand, apps in the Mac App store are licensed for up to 5 Macs.


    The apps are not thru iTunes but the app store Icon that pops up in your dock after you upgraded OSX to 10.6.6. The apps on my iPhone do upgrade for free after purchase. Major upgrades may be required to pay like iPhoto 11 from 09 or something like that. You did correctly state all the software can be run on all Macs using that the 5 iTunes license. There are no trial version either..
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    cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2011
    David Evertsen wrote: »
    The apps on my iPhone do upgrade for free after purchase. Major upgrades may be required to pay like iPhoto 11 from 09 or something like that.

    I suppose it depends on app and developer. Most of my iphone/ipad apps do not have free upgrades to the next version. For 'dot releases' they do, but things like Real Racing, I have to buy Real Racing 2. I suspect that this may be among the reasons that Aperture is cheaper, but just guessing. You can still buy Aperture in the Apple Store, online, for $199, and there seems to be no mention as to why the difference in price.
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    VT50VT50 Registered Users Posts: 17 Big grins
    edited January 6, 2011
    why is it Apature still doesn't have a smugmug plug in? Deal breaker
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    carmel6942carmel6942 Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2011
    VT50 wrote: »
    why is it Apature still doesn't have a smugmug plug in? Deal breaker

    Here is a link to Smugin for Aperture, it has a free version and a paid version with more features. This works great with Aperture 3. mwink.gif

    Smugin for Aperture
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2011
    VT50 wrote: »
    why is it Apature still doesn't have a smugmug plug in? Deal breaker

    There are at least two that I know of :D
    http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Hacks+and+Apps
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    SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    I use Aperture 3 (sadly purchased at full price) and upload to Smugmug, no problem, with the plugin. Have since I first got Aperture 2 a couple of years ago.
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    mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    VT50 wrote: »
    why is it Apature still doesn't have a smugmug plug in? Deal breaker

    They have for quite some time!
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    chrisjohnsonchrisjohnson Registered Users Posts: 771 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2011
    David Evertsen wrote: »
    Just saw the new Mac App store opened and Aperture is now only $79 down from $199. I have been using LR3 for a while but may try Aperture for this price and learn it as well I wish this would put some pressure on Adobe for pricing, the APP store works through ITunes and you can re-download applications as well.

    Sounds like a great deal - are you sure this is not the upgrade version?

    I use Aperture 3 myself and love it.
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    mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2011
    goldenballs wrote: »
    Sounds like a great deal - are you sure this is not the upgrade version?

    I use Aperture 3 myself and love it.

    Unreal isn't it? $79 is not an upgrade version. I'm not positive, but I think the $79 version is not eligible for cheap upgrades in the future.
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    WachelWachel Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2011
    mercphoto wrote: »
    Unreal isn't it? $79 is not an upgrade version. I'm not positive, but I think the $79 version is not eligible for cheap upgrades in the future.

    Even if you have to buy the whole new version for $79...that is still cheaper than the upgrade price of $99 that I paid when I went from Aperture 2 to 3.
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    MarlfoxMarlfox Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins
    edited January 21, 2011
    Just downloaded the plug in, looks to work great. Just two quick questions...

    1- when I upload a photo to Flick (don't hate!), if I move or delete the photo from Aperture it removes it automatically from F****. Does it do the same on SmugMug, or once I've uploaded it the only way it disapears is through me deleting it on the site?

    2- In Aperture, at the top you have the images for email, Facebook, Flickr etc- is there a way to get a SmugMug image up there as well?
    http://mintymarlfox.smugmug.com/ :dunno
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