A real life story

I have just completed the job I purchased Aperture for...
I am working on a large (100pp) sportswear catalogue. the photographer came back from florida and gave me 2 250gig hard drives full of raw images, It was the photographer's first time shooting this job digitally (previously 35mm trans) he was able to instantly dump all the bad shots at the shoot.
I have imported over 3000 images into a job folder, batched the images by date and then entered the keywords for garment style & range, colour, man, woman.
Myself and 3 clients chose a garment range and rated the best shot in every colourway by using the compare facility on a second monitor. (how very very cool they thought) 5 stars for the picked images and 4 stars for the alternative (that could be used elsewhere in the catalogue.
Smart folders were created for 5 star rated images, the picked images were then exported as tiff files, ready to be imported into Photoshop for colour correcting (selective grament colours) and retouching. A set of jpegs were also exported to be temporarelly placed in Quark express layouts. 2 sets of contact sheets of the whole shoot (with rating stars added) was sent to the client for reference for the rest of the season.
What a great way of managing images and workflow...!

Ha! Ha! Ha!
No, seriously man, we need to hear what happens with
all those TIFFs he exported to be retouched in
Photoshop. And all the ones that went out to Quark
Express. I guess if anything goes wrong, the other
people dealing with those files will need to go back
to the photographer and get a new TIFF export to
start ALL OVER with? Interesting. More efficient
for sorting, but not more efficient for everyone else
doing work on the team.
So what world do you live on where people working on TIFF's in Photoshop are unable to use undo if they get something wrong? Honestly what is the realistic scenario under which people have to go back for more TIFF's - as if that were even difficult?
If other people get images sooner life is better for everyone.
Of course if they all had multi-user access to the
same folder heirarchy of images as the photographer,
it might be less of an issue. But still, this is ONE
case where someone thought it was worthwhile. If
only Aperture had said it was for this small sub-set
of photographers instead of claiming in their
Marketing & Sales literature that it would work for
ALL photographers...
Well there is now multi-user access to the TIFFs generated, backed by the Aperture database in case something is messed up. You were just complaining about the dangers of the TIFF files being destroyed, I guess you'd be really alarmed if instead of using Aperture to generate the TIFF's he had generated TIFF's from ACR directly and had nothing to fall back on.
But then you aren't interested in how real multi-user scenarios work, you're just interesting in putting down Aperture at all opportunities no matter how non-sensical you have to be to do so. Your post made very little sense no matter how you approached it as in just two paragraphs you managed to completely contradict your own desires. I don't know how any program is supposed to meet the needs of a user who fundamentally doesn't understand what they want.

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