vinster Posted November 28, 2010 Share #1 Posted November 28, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have an Apple macbook pro .I have IPHOTO and APERTURE ,any one using these programs successfully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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richfx Posted November 28, 2010 Share #2 Posted November 28, 2010 I'm using Aperture 3.1 with a 20" imac. Aperture is a powerful PP program but it has quirks. From time to time it does strange things - removes adjustments made (a pain) and turns off other adjustments. I've had to rebuild my library several times to solve these issues. Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eziomi Posted November 28, 2010 Share #3 Posted November 28, 2010 I'm using aperture since the first version and I have to say the v. 3.1 is very good and stable. Never had any problems and with the new features introduced starting form the v. 3 I go to Photoshop much less often than before. EM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicoleica Posted November 28, 2010 Share #4 Posted November 28, 2010 I've been using Aperture since V1, and am very happy with it. It does have a few eccentricities, but on the whole I find that it suits my needs very well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaBraz Posted November 28, 2010 Share #5 Posted November 28, 2010 I guess then it is a program suitable for eccentrics? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmc Posted November 28, 2010 Share #6 Posted November 28, 2010 it is a very stable PP program. it is also very easy to use and works seamlessly with other mac programs. like publishing to mobil me etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted November 29, 2010 Share #7 Posted November 29, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Tried all the competition and came back to Aperture 3.1 on my Mac with Nik plug ins which now work seamlessly in 64bit. Looks great and works well for almost everything. File management is quirky .... why don't ANY of these programmes have a sane and logical file structure ??? Can lock up the processor/memory if you try and do too many things at once ... but this has got less of a problem with each update. From my experience seems incompatible with time machine (which to be frank only works properly on a mac if you never use the computer for anything at all.....) and spent most of it's time sulking with the whirly coloured thing going all the time.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicoleica Posted November 29, 2010 Share #8 Posted November 29, 2010 From my experience seems incompatible with time machine (which to be frank only works properly on a mac if you never use the computer for anything at all.....) and spent most of it's time sulking with the whirly coloured thing going all the time.... Strange. I don't have any problems with Aperture and Time Machine, and my Macs work hard for their living. How much RAM do you have? that can have a significant effect, as Time Machine can be very memory and processor intensive at times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clinchico Posted November 30, 2010 Share #9 Posted November 30, 2010 I also purchased Aperture just 3 weeks ago. I have one question to you. Whenever I upload my images from Aperture to the Leica forum my jpeg are way too small, any suggestion for this novice are appreciated. Herb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted November 30, 2010 Share #10 Posted November 30, 2010 From my experience seems incompatible with time machine (which to be frank only works properly on a mac if you never use the computer for anything at all.....) and spent most of it's time sulking with the whirly coloured thing going all the time.... Strange, I've never seen the pizza wheel when Time Machine kicks it, it just does it stuff in the background. What Mac do you have? The machine I've got - 2 year old iMac - does slow down if I've got Mail, Firefox, Lightroom, Photoshop, iTunes and Spotify all open at the same time, but tends to be the changing from one application to another that slows down, not Time Machine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdtaylor Posted November 30, 2010 Share #11 Posted November 30, 2010 Rarely a problem here with Time Machine and other mac programs. Run it on desktops and portables, in total about 15 machines. I will say the original versions were quirky, but 10.5 and 10.6 seem very stable. Used Aperture off and on for years, but tired of the proprietary file structure (maybe that has changed in the last version). Much preferred to set the file structure, based on our company standards, and much more sane when you have to rebuild a machine when a HD craps out- and they will. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
psamson Posted December 2, 2010 Share #12 Posted December 2, 2010 24" iMac, Aperture 3.x, and the Nik Software plug-ins. Very happy with the setup. I do find that Aperture is a bit resource-intensive when importing photos so I just start the process and let it do it's two-step processing (importing, then processing). I tend to break up photos into numerous Projects (e.g. at a minimum one per month) in Aperture, and I don't have any problems. No conflicts between Aperture and Time Machine. As an aside, sometimes an intensive "mdworker" task may appear on your Mac and run for a while. This may be associated with Spotlight rebuilding its indexes. I've seen this happen sometimes after applying a patch to the operating system, and other times just whenever. I assume Spotlight periodically does a full refresh of its indexes. If you want a bit of visibility into what is consuming processor, memory, and network resources they get the iStat plug-ins for your Dashboard or for the top menu bar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimver Posted December 2, 2010 Share #13 Posted December 2, 2010 All fine on any mac < 1 year, even on the new Air's Only thing is , out of the camera, in the metadata the F stop is not showing, there are some pointers in the various forums to fix that with a combination of apple scripts etc, but although I am an IT professional and >10 year Mac user, I have not been able to get it to work. Being the proud owner of an M9 recently, I am reverting back for my Leica output to Light room, just to have full exit in order to understand better how some of the shots turn out Pim ps any help on the Aperture/F-stop issue would be appreciated Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicouagan1 Posted December 4, 2010 Share #14 Posted December 4, 2010 I've been using Aperture since the inital version on Laptops, currently a 17" MacBook Pro. I have found the keywording and Project structure works well for me. I back up my images by saving individual Aperture Projects, rather than using Time Machine. I shoot Raw DNGs on my M9, so I first pass my images from the SD card though Adobe's DNG converter to reduce their size. Running though DNG converter also allows Aperture to find the calculated taking aperture and other camera data that is hard to retrieve if I upload straight to Aperture. When Aperture 3 added the "curves" function is made retrieving highlights much easier than in the earleir versions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailronin Posted December 4, 2010 Share #15 Posted December 4, 2010 I use Aperture on a 13" MacBook along with the NIK plugins. I've been very happy with the RAW conversion (both with my M8 and Nikon D700). The only thing it can't do is a "layers" type adjustment if you're used to using that feature; I never had layers so don't really miss the feature. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimver Posted December 4, 2010 Share #16 Posted December 4, 2010 I first pass my images from the SD card though Adobe's DNG converter to reduce their size.) so explain to me this size reduction, it must be compression but is it lossy or lossless, if it is lossless will Aperture be able to deflate to the original size/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
honcho Posted December 4, 2010 Share #17 Posted December 4, 2010 Aperture 3.1 here. Stable, super interface, abysmally slow on export. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicouagan1 Posted December 4, 2010 Share #18 Posted December 4, 2010 The compression is claimed to be lossless and I have seen no evidence that it is not the case. Several others have commented favorably :)on the the compression in this forum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekF Posted December 4, 2010 Share #19 Posted December 4, 2010 Used Aperture off and on for years, but tired of the proprietary file structure (maybe that has changed in the last version). Much preferred to set the file structure, based on our company standards, and much more sane when you have to rebuild a machine when a HD craps out- and they will. At least since Aperture 2 (never used 1), there's no proprietary file structure. Just folders and files conveniently packaged into an Aperture package. The new vaults make backing up quite easy, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted December 4, 2010 Share #20 Posted December 4, 2010 Strange. I don't have any problems with Aperture and Time Machine, and my Macs work hard for their living. How much RAM do you have? that can have a significant effect, as Time Machine can be very memory and processor intensive at times. Core i7 and 16Gb. Aperture never worked properly with time machine running. Early copies of Aperture 3 had a memory hole problem that gobbled up ram. I thought this was the cause but subsequent upgrades made little difference. I also thought part of the original problem was running Parallels which stores it's 'virtual machine' as a single file that changes every time you use any windows function. As a result time machine tries to back up approx 30Gb of data every time windows has been accessed. However, even excluding this file didn't get rid of the issues. Nor did deleting everything from Time Machine and starting again. I just ended up with and endless cycle of incomplete back-ups and Aperture crashing. Accessing Time Machine also locked up my iMac when I tried to find out what it was actually backing up. Now it's permanently switched off, everything works wonderfully. I've just moved my Time Machine to back up my data on my partners iMac - I now backup my data to a folder on the 2nd machine and it then backs this up to time machine - and it's just taken 9 days to back up 180Gb of photos, running 24hrs a day..... so I still cannot say I'm very impressed by it as a back-up option...... but at least it works and doesn't compromise my iMacs functionality. I tried every option I could find (and there are plenty of other folk with major issues using time machine... so there is plenty of advice) to get everything working harmoniously but to no avail. I suppose it could be a dodgy drive, but usually these things either work or they don't...... and all the other wireless network functions are ok so it can't be that. It's nice to know some folk find it works ok, but for me, Aperture and Time Machine don't see eye to eye... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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