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Aperture 1.5 released
http://www.apple.com/aperture/
What's new: http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/ Note especially the new library management: "Or store your photographs wherever you’d like — on any number of hard drives, network volumes, CDs, or DVDs, and have Aperture “reference” them. No need to copy the entire collection into a single managed library, simply point to them and let Aperture catalog them in place." |
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Aperture 1.5 released
In article xSWRg.27858$5R2.17560@pd7urf3no, scott
wrote: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ What's new: http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/ Note especially the new library management: "Or store your photographs wherever you’d like — on any number of hard drives, network volumes, CDs, or DVDs, and have Aperture “reference” them. No need to copy the entire collection into a single managed library, simply point to them and let Aperture catalog them in place." Bunch of other stuff, too. My favorite is: Choose HSB (hue, saturation, and brightness) or HSL (hue, saturation, and luminance) as basis of tonal values in the Color meter. By the way, the subject line probably should have been "Announced", NOT "Released". :^) It's still not available to purchase (as of this writing, 1.1 is still the one on Apple's website for sale) nor upgrade - "Later this week, you can download the free Aperture 1.5 update." according to Apple's website as of today, and Mac OSX's Software Update says that my 1.1.2 is "up to date". Trust me, I've been waiting and hoping to see if this update allows Aperture to recognize the Digital Rebel XTi's new 10.1MP files - it worked fine for the old DR XT, but when I upgraded, Aperture choked on the files. I rely heavily on Aperture, so that was a major [and, hopefully, very temporary] disappointment. |
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Aperture 1.5 released
Ken Lucke wrote: In article xSWRg.27858$5R2.17560@pd7urf3no, scott wrote: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ What's new: http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/ Note especially the new library management: "Or store your photographs wherever you’d like — on any number of hard drives, network volumes, CDs, or DVDs, and have Aperture “reference” them. No need to copy the entire collection into a single managed library, simply point to them and let Aperture catalog them in place." Bunch of other stuff, too. My favorite is: Choose HSB (hue, saturation, and brightness) or HSL (hue, saturation, and luminance) as basis of tonal values in the Color meter. By the way, the subject line probably should have been "Announced", NOT "Released". :^) It's still not available to purchase (as of this writing, 1.1 is still the one on Apple's website for sale) nor upgrade - "Later this week, you can download the free Aperture 1.5 update." according to Apple's website as of today, and Mac OSX's Software Update says that my 1.1.2 is "up to date". Trust me, I've been waiting and hoping to see if this update allows Aperture to recognize the Digital Rebel XTi's new 10.1MP files - it worked fine for the old DR XT, but when I upgraded, Aperture choked on the files. I rely heavily on Aperture, so that was a major [and, hopefully, very temporary] disappointment. Please be sure to review and post once you do upgrade. Digital Asset Management is becoming more important but I'd rather follow someone elses wake than blaze a fresh trail; technology may be cheaper now but time is more costly. -Guy |
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Aperture 1.5 released
In article , Guy
wrote: Ken Lucke wrote: -snippage- Trust me, I've been waiting and hoping to see if this update allows Aperture to recognize the Digital Rebel XTi's new 10.1MP files - it worked fine for the old DR XT, but when I upgraded, Aperture choked on the files. I rely heavily on Aperture, so that was a major [and, hopefully, very temporary] disappointment. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have corrected that problem. Please be sure to review and post once you do upgrade. Digital Asset Management is becoming more important but I'd rather follow someone elses wake than blaze a fresh trail; technology may be cheaper now but time is more costly. -Guy Well, considering I've been using Aperture since it first came out and have been very happy with each and every upgrade they've done to it, and many of the things that the Apple promos state have been added are exactly the things I've had on my wish list, I'm probably not going to try to dissuade you from it. :^) Truth be told, I've got a buddy who's a dedicated Nikon film-using guy (28 years as a pro) who's considering switching to digital just to be able to use Aperture after having watched me whip through stuff in it. Yeah, he could do hires scans of his current stuff and load them in, but he's leaning heavily towards just chucking the film and going with the newest high-end Nikon digital. I've got a surprise for him next outing - I'm renting him a Nikon body to play with just to sway him a little more. One thing I did discover immediately - you HAVE to have enough space on the volume you are going to be converting your library onto - it apparently doesn't convert it in place, it appears to rewrite the whole thing, then discard the old. Mine's a little over 80gb (yeah, I keep everything except out-of-focus stuff, but I relegate most of it to the "rejected" classification so it never shows up unless I want it to for soome reason). I screwed up and thought it would just be doing in-place converting, so I didn't allow for enough space on my volume (I could have tolld it to convert to another volume, asd I have over a terabyte and a half of storage on various drives). What happened was that it converted the first couple of projects, then ran out of space, annd said "Well, here's your converted library. Have fun. Seems a bit smaller, though." Oops. Not a problem for you, if you're just starting with Aperture. Well, thank goodness I'm a firm believer in my own preachings with respect to backups - I have automatic nightly backups of everything I do on DVD [thank you, Retrospect!], so I was able to fall back on last night's library to restore and redo the whole process. This is one thing that they should do better in the conversion process - either refuse to convert if there's not enough space, or make it more clear that you need to convert to another drive with enough room. There weren't enough warnings in that respect. As for the actual asset management, it seems as seamless now than it did before - even with the ability to store things anywhere, and the hires previews allowing you to do anything you want with the exception of actual editing/adjustments even while the image source is offliine (thus, you could work on an airplane (if they don't take your computer away from you (along with your shoes, toothpaste, and anything else that they can get away with claiming might be a 'homeland security issue') because it just might be a bomb) even though your pictures are sitting on a hard disk thousands of miles away. It also has a vastly increased ability to do batch processes on metadata, naming, and some other elements. Renaming files from within Aperture either right at import or later (something that wasn't capable of being done previously AFAIK) is very easy now. I've already used the lift & stamp of cropping and straightening data (which was not possible before) to apply precisely the same straighten and crop values to a series of variously exposed identical pictures which were then outputted to Photoshop for use in the HDR process to create a single High Dynamic Range picture - this saved me 10 minutes right there before outputting them, and probably 5 minutes in PS to eliminate the [now unnecessary] step of "automatically align images" which I always had to use before to make sure that they were perfectly lined up. I've also used the drag-and-drop feature already to update some pictures in a separate portfolio - before, you had to export the pictures somewhere in jpeg format, import them into the other program, and then discard the pictures you exported. Now, a simple flick of the wrist drags them over to the other program. That's really going to save me some time, too. Now, I just hope to God that they come out with the update to recognize the XTi's format. Why it doesn't, I have no clue - they're supposedly the same .CR2 files that Canon has always used for it's RAW files. That's all I've had time to play with so far. I'll report more later, I've only had it two hours at this point. Sorry to sound like an Aperture commmercial, but I really like this program, and have since the beginning. If you've been waffling, waffle no longer. It was good enough before, now it appears to be even better. No, it's not a PS replacement - it's not SUPPOSED to be a PS replacement. It IS a wonderful digital asset management system. |
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Aperture 1.5 released
Ken Lucke wrote: In article xSWRg.27858$5R2.17560@pd7urf3no, scott wrote: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ Hmph. I am still waiting for my $200 gift certificate. |
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