Jacken’s Blog

So I have tried Apples new photo managing software called Aperture. I uploaded some pictures into it to have something to work with. I also downloaded pictures

that I had taken during the day. The next time I started Aperture, I got a message that the project I had downloaded needed to be repaired. But when it was finished, there where two folders with the same name. One is empty and the other one had all the pictures. So I delete the empty project. And now I couldn’t open the pictures in the first folder. Thankfully I found the missing pictures in the trash, I guess the deleted folder really wasn’t empty after all. So this program has the same basic design flaw that iPhoto has. One central database with all the pictures in it. One thing you really have to be able to do is to trust your photo managing software, and so far I’m not impressed. The rest of the program is very nice. If you have a fast machine. Unfortunately the RAW conversion is really bad. And you can’t make Aperture open the raw file in Photoshop CS2 that has a superior importer. That’s plane stupid. I can understand Apple for wanting to use CoreImage for all the processing, but you really need sharpening filters like NIK Sharpener 2, but without a plug-in architecture that’s something that won’t happen.

I realize that this is a 1.0 version of a program and is certainly going to get better. But the idea of using a database for storing pictures seems fundamental for Apples design, and so far I got burned by both iPhoto (twice) and now Aperture. So I guess I’ll go back to Adobe Bridge for manage my photos.