Since I had a baby and got a DSLR camera, our photo library grew exponentially. Like, thousands of photos a month. When you have a child as adorable as mine, it only makes sense to record every outfit, moment, trip to the playground, and activity.
I’ve used iPhoto for years and love the way it organizes photos…. but when my library grew to the point of ridiculous, iPhoto started giving me every impatient person’s worse icon: the rainbow scroll-y wheel. I’d slowed it down. So I downloaded Aperture to try it out.
Things I like about it:
- It’s faster. That’s the main thing.
- Much more advanced editing tools (with simple options, too).
- Photos are still organized by event (but they are called “projects”).
- The different views makes it easy to compare photos, scroll through photos, and pick out which ones to edit.
- Importing from iPhoto was simple. All of my photos are now in Aperture.
- Sharing on Facebook, email, Flickr, etc. is really easy.
- I LOVE Photostream… and the other ones I looked at don’t have this option (Lightroom, Photoshop elements).
- Creates “versions” instead of duplicates of edited photos – so you can always look at the original, and the different versions are linked to the original. Plus, it saves space.
OK, I’ve toyed with this for a year now but have never pulled the trigger. I am beyond frustrated with iPhoto now – I’ve had more issues than I’ll take the time to bore you with – but am always afraid I won’t actually like it better. So glad you posted this. I think this is my sign that it is {beyond} time to make the move.
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Amy – I didn’t want to bore y’all with my issues either but I managed to do something that erased a lot of the thumbnails – so I had to double-click, wait forever for the scroll-y wheel, and then see my picture. I tried fixing it and then just decided moving to Aperture was best!!
I have Aperture and Photoshop Elements and I don’t use either because I haven’t taken the time to figure them out. Maybe I should try. I get the rainbow wheel all the time in iPhoto too. Thanks for the tip!
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Heather- Aperture is really easy and is set up like iPhoto. The one thing to keep in mind is events are like projects – you can store your pictures in as many albums and folders you’d like, but just like events – the photo’s home base is the project. Once I had that down, organizing is simple. AND it organizes projects by year. Importing from iPhoto is simple. And the editing tools look intimidating until you find the one that says “auto fix” under pre-sets
I use Photoshop elements more for creating little do-hickies for my blog than actual photo editing – and I do NOT like the organizer.
I have LR and PS and between them and the online sites I use I’m pretty happy. But then again I’m a lazy bum who hasn’t been photographing diddily squat either lately. :-p
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