Aperture

Aperture
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

First week of Aperture, so far so good. Why did I go for it? Well my workflow currently uses 3 different apps. Upgrading 2 of them would cost as much as Aperture. Now that I have the hardware to run it, I thought this would be the time to change. I have to hand it to Apple, this one is really thought out for pro photogs. Easier to use that Lightroom, flexibility of UI that Bibble tries for, layouts similar to iPhoto, with all the tools you need to crank things out.

Only a couple quibbles so far: For web galleries it would be nice to FTP directly from the program, rather than save to disk and .mac uploading. Watching a folder that is recieving images from a tethered camera requires you to run a sepearate Applescript. It should be built into the program.

Other than those two things I am really enjoying working in this program.