Well, the latest changes to Aperture in 1.5 really tip the scales a little bit for me. As I had predicted, they are really integrating the Aperture library to be accessible from anywhere in OS X – just like iPhoto. That is really significant for me since I’m wanting an application that focuses on allowing me to organize, annotate and use (get at) my photos just as much as it allows me to edit them. The Flickr uploader plugin is a + as well.
On the other hand, James Duncan Davidson’s article really made me appreciate Lightroom. I hadn’t really been able to look at the metadata panel in Aperture, but it’s obvious from Davidson’s post that Lightroom really did it right – and much better than Aperture. Those kinds of details are important to me. So, Lightroom gets another 10 points in the UI category as well as the annotation category.
For my needs, Aperture is still ahead by a small margin. More as things develop.1
- No pun intended ↑ back up there
Oct 2nd, 2006 at 1:29 pm henry
You should buy it so I can try it out too! (the academic version is only $150)
Oct 2nd, 2006 at 1:32 pm Jason
I’m pretty close to doing it. But it’ll be a few months before I have the money.
Oct 22nd, 2006 at 11:50 pm Trey
So where’s the followup post?
Oct 22nd, 2006 at 11:51 pm Jason
Patience.