Aperture vs Photoshop or other editing software
All,
I'm looking at Aperture but wondering what it will do that the Adobe products won't do.
Advantages?
Software are tools, or collections of tools. The tools are crafted by skilled toolmakers to allow the user to perform specific tasks.
Apple's Aperture is entirely analogous to Adobe's Lightroom. It seems unlikely that with your current tools and tasks you haven't encountered and learned what Lightroom is and does. Aperture is and does the same. Each is excellent at what it does.
Aperture and Lightroom are digital darkrooms for developing, organizing, storing, and preparing for publication digital photographs. It sounds as though you have some needs which Aperture will meet.
It is worth knowing what Aperture is not. It is not a graphics editing program. Aperture is not a data-creation program -- it is a data-modification program. The data are your photographs. Aperture excels at allowing the user to develop digital negatives. It does not allow the user to create and add text, rectangles, digital bangles, and so forth. Every operation is done on a photograph.
Aperture is no faster than similar programs at executing commands. It can save the user a lot of time in allowing for the organization and batch execution of operations. The execution of even a few changes on hundreds of images will always push current systems to their max.
Your question remains non-specific. These user-to-user forums are great for finding answers to specific question, and not so great for gathering general information. Read about Aperture on Apple's site, read several of the many easily available reviews of version 3, and also download the trial version (it's free) and try it out. Aperture is a very large, very powerful, complex program with a long (but not steep) learning curve. Sixty minutes spent reading and using will either answer your question, or allow you to ask specific questions to which you can get useful answers.
Good luck.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger (minor additions).
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I try the feedback later today even they claim "Please know that while we do read these submissions, we cannot guarantee a personalized response.", which is original reason why I'm why I wrote this question here. The url you provided did not work but this should:
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I have copied the images from card to hard drive, not trying to read from the card itself. However now you mention tried also from card = exactly same result. Tried desktop (different HD) and external USB and external eSata, all same result.
Get info doesn't show anything wierd for the images. All other 192 RAWs from same shoot were imported with exact same methodology (as well as 60000 images before that).
Then to gosuk2:
There is no HDR setting in camera, I took the images FOR HDR, but did not use any specific setting, just used 1 1/3 stop bracketing and 2 second times when camera automatically takes 1 1/3 underexposed, correct exposure and 1 1/3 overexposed image (the order of images can naturally be changed via custom function in camera). All this is unrelevant since I shoot quite often HDR with this method (=more than 500 images each month) this way and they have always been fine before these two images.
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I have used Aperture since version 1 and I have 70000 images imported successfully to Aperture. Earlier I have seen this dialog "Aperture could not import image" only after hard drive/card failure. However then images cannot be used in Canon's DPP (Digital Photo Professional) or any other RAW software - now the problem ONLY EXISTS in Aperture all other RAW converters are able to open and process SUCCESSFULLY these images.
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Will report here if I get any comments back from Apple through the Feebback tool.
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