Forrest Tanaka, an experienced Lightroom user writes about his week with Aperture in the Martin Bailey forums.
The bottom line:
"Aperture is no longer on my hard drive, and Lightroom is. Aperture's versioning and back-up method will be painful to leave, but Lightroom is more natural to use in the important things, so it stays."
Both apps seem very stable. Neither ever crashed during his tests.
Aperture wins at:
- Versioning. Lightroom has history, but it's not the same.
- Keywording. Selecting and applying are easy. Lightroom's approach is "a bit clumsy."
- Backup. Vaults are very useful.
Lightroom wins at:
- Image adjustments. Curves beat Aperture's histograms.
- Cropping and rotating. One tool in Lightroom manages both. Aperture breaks them into two tools.
- Performance. Lightroom feels "a bit faster overall." Aperture is sluggish during image adjustments.
Here's an interesting point made by Tanaka:
"My main concern with Lightroom, and not being part of the Lightroom team it might be an unfounded concern, but its development seems a bit scattered. It's as if they're trying to figure out a focus based on user feedback, and being a beta, focus should have been determined long ago. Makes me worry a bit about the final product and feature-creep."
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