[DM-MUG] Aperture .v Photoshop

[Matt W]

I'm marginally surprised that no one has mentioned that iLife '05 has  
native RAW support.

<http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/import.html>

For wondering why Apple advertises Photoshop... They want Adobe to  
keep making Photoshop for Mac. There is great debate about whether  
Aperture is going to eventually kill Photoshop on the Mac (remember  
Premier--I almost didn't). It's not even close right now, but in a  
few years...? At least Adobe has competition now.

Matthew

On Dec 4, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Alan Maupin wrote:

> A quote from the Apple Aperture Webpage.
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> “Round-trip Photoshop support.  Aperture lets you launch directly  
> into Adobe Photoshop with a single-click. There, you can take  
> advantage of Photoshop’s strong compositing and layer effects, and  
> when you’re done making modifications, simply save the file. Your  
> modified image will automatically be added to your Aperture library  
> as a version of the original file, where you can manage it easily  
> in a Project or Album. “
>
> I can’t help but wonder why a photographic program (Aperture) would  
> advertise the benefits of using another sepererate photographic  
> program (Adobe Photoshop), and especially a program (Aperture)  
> listing for $500.  This quote seems to be telling us that Photoshop  
> is the benchmark graphical image manipulation program.  And this  
> begs the question; why do we need Aperture?  For $500 I would  
> expect Aperture to at least attempt to compete with Photoshop, not  
> glorify the benefit of Photoshop instead.
>
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> From: dmmug-bounces at dmmug.org [mailto:dmmug-bounces at dmmug.org] On  
> Behalf Of Victoria L. Herring
> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 10:05 PM
> To: Des Moines Mac Users Group
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Digital Camera Compatibility
>
>
>
>  Turns out you can only read the RAW images from the bundled  
> software - for Windows only.
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> RAW is very special and prized.... it's what Aperature works with  
> and is probably overkill for a college student and an <$200  
> camera.... iPhoto evidently won't work with RAW either = maybe  
> Graphic Converter will???  For myself, the idea of getting  
> Aperature looks better and better....
>
> -- 
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