How Is Aperture Better Then iPhoto At Organizing Photos?

I was just wondering what sets Aperture apart from iPhoto when it comes to organizing my photos?
I just purchased Aperture for this reason and was just wanting to know some of the key features for organizing in Aperture.
Thanks,
Sam
Please feel free to tell me anything you know about Aperture because I would love to know!

Asset management tools the key is to keep your images organised as your library of photos grows and grows. And Aperture is much more of a king than iPhoto in this regard.
In iphoto for example the search facility is fairly simple to use and yes you can use keywords to find an image, however as you library grows and your workflow becomes much more sophisticated, and it will, when you work as a photographer, you will want to have a much more powerful search facility such as to able to go into Aperture and search for images using more criteria. In smart albums in iPhoto there is a list of words of metadata fields to use for searching for images, but in aperture there is literally dozens of metadata fields you can choose from to powerfully find any image efficiently and quickly. And in Aperture it records every little detail of your cameras data that you can use in your search facility.
There is a few ways how to efficiently organize your images in Aperture what I have mentioned just above is really just a tip of the iceberg.

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How director is better then flash

hi
i m the user director but on some point i m so much confuse
about the director
i really feel comfort and relax in director..i can easily
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> What seems to be happening with Director and Flash is
that they are more
> alike with every new release. It is getting harder and
harder to explain
> what the difference is to non-users, and that is a bad
bad sign.
Hmm.. Well, maybe it's time to explain what I meant by 'I'm
working on it'.
I sure am not adobe, or mm, but I'd bet that most of the
regular list
members care about Director more than anyone at any company.
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more precise,
and by not finding any descent networking Xtra, I started
building one. The
initial goal was to build a socket Xtra that could transfer
binary strings.
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stuff of my
personal Director wish list that came to mind. And the Xtra
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for their
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Xtras).
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news:[email protected]...
>-> My reply at the bottom...
>
>
>
> "alchemist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Director was created for building stand-alone apps.
>> Flash was built to enhance web pages.
>>
>> No matter how much both (especially flash) these
programs have evolved,
>> they still are doing best what they were created to
do.
>> Director with it's open architecture (see Xtras) can
have extended access
>> to the os.
>> With Flash, you have to work with what mm/adobe is
offering - and, in the
>> latest versions, that's much more than most projects
will require.
>>
>> Director is usually faster than flash, due to it's
design.
>> I'd guess that Flash is easier to port to various
OSs because of it's
>> control-dependent nature.
>>
>> Flash is sure heading to the right direction.
>> As for Director.. It still is a great program for
rapid application
>> developing, and with adequate performance - which
can be excellent, if
>> cpu demanding code is transferred from lingo to Xtra
calls.
>>
>> So, the question should probably be Director vs VB
or something instead
>> of vs Flash.
>> Far as I am concerned, mm, after version 8.5, took
the wrong turn, and
>> instead of expanding director towards application
development, or
>> enhancing it's 3D capabilities, it just created a
new interface, added
>> javascript support -good step, but a bit out of the
blue- and buried mus,
>> which was a valuable tool for network gaming.
>>
>> Imagine if Director had all the features needed to
create professional
>> applications.. Why not? It's fast, stable, easy and
expandable. Is it
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Flash, and start turning
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working on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> "farhanakhan" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> hi
>>> i m the user director but on some point i m so
much confuse about the
>>> director
>>>
>>> i really feel comfort and relax in director..i
can easily develop the
>>> application in the director ..but .when y u work
in director y u are
>>> not work
>>> in flash...flash also can do all ... at this
time I have no proper and
>>> satisfy
>>> answer to give the prove them all....
>>>
>>> Tell me guys
>>> Y director is good....
>>> What r the difference b/w director and flash?
>>> How can I satisfy them technically?
>>> I know that flash good software but I wana know
that point which make
>>> the
>>> director better then flash.
>>> What are these points?
>>> Soon im going to conduct the seminer..here
people think director is not
>>> good
>>> software ..they think is so much difficult ..
>>> So I wana tell them about the director. is good
software?y
>>> Plz reply me
>>>
>>>
>>> Thx a lot
>>>
>>> Regard
>>> farhana khan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> Hi Alchemist,
> thats a very good point you make, and I agree totally. I
also use Director
> mostly for prototyping new applications and demo-stuff.
>
> What seems to be happening with Director and Flash is
that they are more
> alike with every new release. It is getting harder and
harder to explain
> what the difference is to non-users, and that is a bad
bad sign.
> I still suspect MM/Adobe would like to make it 1 product
that is both
> Flash and Director, and I still think that is the wrong
decision.
>
> Anyway... I hope for the best, and keep using the old
versions as long as
> possible.
>
> Richard
>

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