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UK Mall 1 - Aperture 2.0 (Mac)
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List Price: £129.00
Our Price: £87.00
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Apple
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909249695
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB284Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2008-03-20
Studio: Apple
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor product - avoid if you wish to keep your sanity!
Comment: Sadly I found this product to be a waste of money. Apart from being twice the price of other applications of its sort it suffers from having one of the most frustrating and illogical flaws I have ever come across - it will not allow you to name your master files when imported from a camera.
This is the same flaw that exists with iPhoto too. Both programmes will let you call your files whatever you want - and in Aperture there are, as you'd expect, more way of doing it than in iPhoto. However, as soon as you drag or copy/paste a photo file OUT of the programme you will see that it has kept its original camera assigned numeric filename. Neither Aperture (or iPhoto for that matter) will allow you to change it. This infuriating quirk has forced me to have to resort to importing all my camera files onto a PC first - naming them with the filenames I want, and then importing them into Aperture by either memory stick or CD/DVD. Once imported with a fixed master file name you can then do whatever you want with them. The geeks who wrote this should hang their heads in shame at such a daft omission.
Apart from that the programme performs in a mediochre way - it is illogical in other aspects too; once a camera/memory stick/card is connected for an import, the programme decides what folder it is going to put them in - try and change it and you'll find the 'IMPORT' button is suddenly greyed out - from that point onwards you're stuck. You may as well start all over again. The programme churns out interminable thumbnails (so that you seem to end up with two of everything), will eat up your hard drive memory like there's no tomorrow and is about as intuitive as a religious text.
The only plus points are its supposed compatibility with other Apple applications (which is why I bought it in the first place). If you too are a geek or a fanatic, you may get on with Aperture 2; if you are a normal person who wants an excellent photo editing programme with a degree of common sense and straightforward logic, then save your brain and buy something else - because this programme with drive you mad with frustration.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Aperture 2 - there really is no competition!!
Comment: I am a football and celebrity events photographer and can do anything up to 500 images a game/event. These images need to be sorted, checked, altered and sent out as soon as possible after the game. I have used Lightroom and currently am trying out Lightroom 2 Beta, after I could not get on with the first Aperture due to its slow uploading capabilities. However, Aperture 2 knocks the socks off Lightroom including the new Beta version. The other major factor which influences me to go with Aperture 2 over Lightroom is the tethered camera options. If I tether my camera and use lightroom I need to use both Canon's and Nikon's software to upload in the first instance then download into Lightroom. No such problem in Aperture 2, its tether up, fire away and see the results in Aperture 2. No contest!! And a final thank you for Apple in pricing the software competitively. Aperture 1 was far too expensive but this software is cheaper being less the half the price of the original release and it has far more going for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but an important feature has been left out
Comment: This is a very nice looking piece of software and generally more intuitive to use than some of its rivals. It is particularly good for batch-handling industrial quantities of images.
The other reviewers identify what's good about aperture 2 so I will just point out a single missing feature that makes it short of perfect. Perspective ('converging verticals' in building shots) and lens distortion ('pincushion' and 'barrel') may have to be corrected on images. The omission of a perspective correction tool from Aperture 2 is a serious (and surprising) shortcoming.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Worthy Upgrade to an Essential Photo Application
Comment: I recently upgraded from the original Aperture (Ver. 1.2) to this new version (Ver. 2.1), and I am very happy with it.
Image editing enhancements aside (there's many a tutorial and explanation on the Apple website), the major criticism I found with Aperture 1 was that it was a massive memory hog, mostly due to the program being designed for Power-PC architecture. This meant that when editing photos or loading up the program on my Intel-Macbook, the software was very 'heavy' and laggy at times.
This version is now configured to work with Intel-chipsets in the current Macintosh lineup and as such operates far more smoothly and requires much less memory to run. It has also been 'polished' to be consistent with the aesthetic changes in OSX Leopard.
Aperture is far superior to Apple's iPhoto, and also can export files to be edited in external programs, such as Photoshop. For organising a large photo library and all the non-destructive image-editing that goes with it (files remain in tact, only the changes are saved and applied when viewing and exporting the images, saving on crucial hard-drive space) this program is essential, if not amazingly beneficial to professionals and amateur photographers alike. A long overdue upgrade to an amazingly useful program.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor product - avoid if you wish to keep your sanity!
Comment: Sadly I found this product to be a waste of money. Apart from being twice the price of other applications of its sort it suffers from having one of the most frustrating and illogical flaws I have ever come across - it will not allow you to name your master files when imported from a camera.
This is the same flaw that exists with iPhoto too. Both programmes will let you call your files whatever you want - and in Aperture there are, as you'd expect, more way of doing it than in iPhoto. However, as soon as you drag or copy/paste a photo file OUT of the programme you will see that it has kept its original camera assigned numeric filename. Neither Aperture (or iPhoto for that matter) will allow you to change it. This infuriating quirk has forced me to have to resort to importing all my camera files onto a PC first - naming them with the filenames I want, and then importing them into Aperture by either memory stick or CD/DVD. Once imported with a fixed master file name you can then do whatever you want with them. The geeks who wrote this should hang their heads in shame at such a daft omission.
Apart from that the programme performs in a mediochre way - it is illogical in other aspects too; once a camera/memory stick/card is connected for an import, the programme decides what folder it is going to put them in - try and change it and you'll find the 'IMPORT' button is suddenly greyed out - from that point onwards you're stuck. You may as well start all over again. The programme churns out interminable thumbnails (so that you seem to end up with two of everything), will eat up your hard drive memory like there's no tomorrow and is about as intuitive as a religious text.
The only plus points are its supposed compatibility with other Apple applications (which is why I bought it in the first place). If you too are a geek or a fanatic, you may get on with Aperture 2; if you are a normal person who wants an excellent photo editing programme with a degree of common sense and straightforward logic, then save your brain and buy something else - because this programme with drive you mad with frustration.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Aperture 2 - there really is no competition!!
Comment: I am a football and celebrity events photographer and can do anything up to 500 images a game/event. These images need to be sorted, checked, altered and sent out as soon as possible after the game. I have used Lightroom and currently am trying out Lightroom 2 Beta, after I could not get on with the first Aperture due to its slow uploading capabilities. However, Aperture 2 knocks the socks off Lightroom including the new Beta version. The other major factor which influences me to go with Aperture 2 over Lightroom is the tethered camera options. If I tether my camera and use lightroom I need to use both Canon's and Nikon's software to upload in the first instance then download into Lightroom. No such problem in Aperture 2, its tether up, fire away and see the results in Aperture 2. No contest!! And a final thank you for Apple in pricing the software competitively. Aperture 1 was far too expensive but this software is cheaper being less the half the price of the original release and it has far more going for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but an important feature has been left out
Comment: This is a very nice looking piece of software and generally more intuitive to use than some of its rivals. It is particularly good for batch-handling industrial quantities of images.
The other reviewers identify what's good about aperture 2 so I will just point out a single missing feature that makes it short of perfect. Perspective ('converging verticals' in building shots) and lens distortion ('pincushion' and 'barrel') may have to be corrected on images. The omission of a perspective correction tool from Aperture 2 is a serious (and surprising) shortcoming.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Worthy Upgrade to an Essential Photo Application
Comment: I recently upgraded from the original Aperture (Ver. 1.2) to this new version (Ver. 2.1), and I am very happy with it.
Image editing enhancements aside (there's many a tutorial and explanation on the Apple website), the major criticism I found with Aperture 1 was that it was a massive memory hog, mostly due to the program being designed for Power-PC architecture. This meant that when editing photos or loading up the program on my Intel-Macbook, the software was very 'heavy' and laggy at times.
This version is now configured to work with Intel-chipsets in the current Macintosh lineup and as such operates far more smoothly and requires much less memory to run. It has also been 'polished' to be consistent with the aesthetic changes in OSX Leopard.
Aperture is far superior to Apple's iPhoto, and also can export files to be edited in external programs, such as Photoshop. For organising a large photo library and all the non-destructive image-editing that goes with it (files remain in tact, only the changes are saved and applied when viewing and exporting the images, saving on crucial hard-drive space) this program is essential, if not amazingly beneficial to professionals and amateur photographers alike. A long overdue upgrade to an amazingly useful program.
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