Aperture 3

February 9th, 2010

I downloaded a trial copy of Apple’s Aperture 3 today. After playing around with it for a few minutes, I gave up because it’s damn slow! I don’t really have an amazing computer, so i guess that’s the reason for the poor performance. At least in Adobe Lightroom I can actually work at a reasonable speed. I guess I’ll be sticking to Lightroom until I buy a new Mac. Actually I’ll probably just always stick to Lightroom anyway because I like the way that it works and the way the interface is laid out. Aperture is all very ‘iPhoto-ish’ to me, and I have never enjoyed iPhoto.

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It’s Been A While…

December 15th, 2009

I was going through my Lightroom catalog and stumbled across this photo. It was shot at a temple somewhere in Cambodia. I don’t remember the name of it. Actually, I don’t think I ever knew the name of it. It’s always cool to browse through the archives and discover images that I didn’t really take note of during my initial run-through.
That’s all folks! I like to make pictures, not words…

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Adobe Lightroom Vignetting

September 8th, 2009

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

Why does Lightroom’s Post-Crop Vignette tool have to look crappy compared to the Lens Correction tool. The Post-Crop tool looks like the equivalent of going into Photoshop, painting with black over top of the image, and then varying the opacity. Vignetting by way of the Lens Correction tool in the ‘Vignettes’ panel is much more pleasing in my opinion. Rather than sticking some black over your image, it seems to affect the exposure level instead. This look is more akin to using Levels/Curves in PS, and then masking out the appropriate areas.

Why can’t we have the wonderful look of the Lens Correction tool, with the flexibility of the Post-Crop Vignetting tool?

Okay that’s the end of my rant. Peace!

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