ceremorphosis

One thing I have learned about photography – the only way to get better is to take more photos. The issue with more photos is you need to develop a workflow to handle it all. I am currently using iPhoto with a very manual method of taking photos out to edit and then re-importing into the library. iView Media Pro was my previous solution but I dropped it with the latest release (and the purchase of Microsoft). I finally settled on trying Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture which both have 30 day trials.

After just 2 days of trying them out, my thoughts:

• Aperture is much more integrated with the OS and the iLife apps. Even a simple thing like syncing with the iPhone is a nice feature.
• Lightroom feels faster as it returns control to the user as it does background processing. That said, I still prefer to let it complete before using the app.
• If you already have a mind for Adobe’s way of doing things, Lightroom is intuitively simple.
• RAW processing (Nikon for me) seems to be equal.
• Aperture supports multiple monitors. I am currently using a Macbook Pro( 2.4Ghz with 4GB of RAM) so the ability to span monitors is very nice.
• Not that I will use them, as I use Gallery (http://gallery2.menalto.com), but Lightroom’s Web galleries are pretty slick. Aperture will, of course, push right to your .Mac site if you have one.