Workflow
Have you found yourself moving back and forward between Aperture and Lightroom?
13/12/06
I certainly have. It's been a frustrating time.
The various releases have made Aperture more useful by removing many of the limitations such as the lack of offline image management and slow response times during some image updates. I particularly dislike the way that Aperture will sometimes show a blank screen and tell you that an image that you were in the middle of editing is now suddenly in an unrecognized format!
And yes I have tried the suggested rebuilding of my library and other tips. I use a top of the range Mac with huge RAM and a fast graphics card. This should not be a problem for Aperture.
Lightroom has now progressed to beta 4. It's interface is not as slick as Aperture and it lacks some of the very useful image searching and management functionality. It is however very fast and can handle large images with ease.
I really like Aperture's interface but have consistently found that Aperture just does not perform when used with large image files. My workflow includes scanned slides and negatives. This produces big files. Aperture just grinds to a painful crawl. Lightroom on the other hand can work with large files without any problem.
So I am now back to using Lightroom. At least I can
open large images and keep working.
Your views welcome.
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