[DM-MUG] Aperture .v Photoshop

[Jon Thompson]

I read a good explanation of the Aperture/Photoshop relationship.

Photoshop is the darkroom.
Aperture is the light table.


Both are useful to the professional photog.
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Jon Thompson
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On Dec 4, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Matt W wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> “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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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