Lightroom vs Aperture: More of the Same
From what I can tell, or maybe it’s from what I’ve exposed myself to, the Lightroom vs Aperture battle is turning in to the next Mac vs Windows fight. Of course, I wouldn’t expect anything else from an Aperture blog, but the comments on this article are heavily weighted on the Aperture side. I find it a bit interesting how someone can praise LR’s speed and “developing” abilities but eventually get to a statement that blasts it for its Modules. I’ve written about these apps before, but I just have a few more things to say:
First, how hard is it to press D and G (or E) to toggle between the two modes? Seriously, is it that much of a workflow hurdle? Obviously, I hardly think it is.
Second, Aperture is insanely slow on old hardware, and new hardware too, apparently. Erik, from nslog, writes:
Aperture, for me - despite having a dual 3 GHz Mac Pro with 5 GB RAM and 200+ GB free space on the boot drive - is a dog unless I quit most of my other apps. Yesterday, simply selecting a picture to edit took a full minute.
There simply is no excuse for that kind of performance, or lack there of, period.
Third, comments regarding the required screen space are spot on. Aperture and all it’s HUD boxes doesn’t give me an interface that works well for me on a 15″ display. With Lightroom, I can easily toggle information on and off to only show what I need. Furthermore, I can’t stand the jumpiness of the loupe (yes, I’m aware that you can lock it one place).
Fourth, and finally, I’d like to respond to the following part of this comment.
I think LR was dusted off and pushed out to meet the Aperture “threat” without Adobe actually determining _why_ Aperture was deemed a threat in the first place (hint: it isn’t just because it’s a single app).
From what little I know, Lightroom wasn’t “dusted off and pushed out”. The beta lasted a year and Beta 1 really didn’t have a lot of the functionality that 1.0 offers. The application was written using C-C++/Objective-C and Lua, a forward-thinking and thoroughly modern dynamic scripting language.
Anyway, as I said at the beginning of this post, this battle of photo processing apps isn’t likely to end soon and much like the Mac/Windows debate, it comes down to personal preference and how each of us works. That said, Lightroom is definitely the right tool for me!
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