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Credit where credit’s due

Posted: October 25th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Aperture, General | No Comments »

I am not a rusted-on proponent of any particular manufacturer or brand. I do tend to have high expectations of my tools and I‘m pretty willing to put the boot in where appropriate and to change sides where necessary. In this I’d say photographers are mostly alike.

But you can easily run the risk of being quick to condemn when things go wrong, and slow to give credit where credit’s due. And so what follows is a bit of both.

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Aperture for the masses?

Posted: March 7th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Aperture, Software, Technology | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

It took a long time to get here, but the new Aperture release looks like it’s been worth waiting for. A bunch of new features like selective (non-destructive) dodging and burning, 64-bit architecture with the additional memory capacity that it brings with it, together with the introduction of adjustment presets and something resembling Photoshop’s curves functionality are all things I’ll use daily.

But it’s not all rosy. You see, Aperture 3.0 seems to have brought with it a few teething problems that are a good reminder to us all that the early adoption of new technology and business critical systems don’t mix.

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