Ted Todorov
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Any words of wisdom out there?
I am a longish time Aperture user: I bought it because I need to merge a bunch of iPhoto libraries and kept using it because I knew how to use it (and owned it) and eventually got to be really fast and good at using it. Tight integration with PhotoStream is also supremely helpful.
I'm now trying to migrate to Lightroom (5.6 -- I always run the latest-greatest), as Apple sunset Aperture and its upcoming Photos app sounds like one of their patented one step forward, two steps back kind of things. Also, with Aperture splitting up libraries once they get too big is a painful/scary thing. Lightroom which just uses the file system for photo storage seems like a less painful approach.
That said: I was expecting way better performance from Lightroom -- the general consensus I've seen is that Lightroom is vastly superior. However on my maxed out 2013 retina MacBook Pro the simple act of selecting pictures for editing which I do by flipping through my shoot in full screen mode and flagging the ones I like for later editing, Lightroom presents the its spinning wait thing if anything more than Aperture does its "loading" thing. I am also bother by its non-Mac like interface for things like going into full screen mode, its in window menus, etc. IMO: Cross platform UIs are never a good idea.
Does anyone have a different experience? Any tips on easily using PhotoStraem with Lightroom? Would love to hear from other users.
I am a longish time Aperture user: I bought it because I need to merge a bunch of iPhoto libraries and kept using it because I knew how to use it (and owned it) and eventually got to be really fast and good at using it. Tight integration with PhotoStream is also supremely helpful.
I'm now trying to migrate to Lightroom (5.6 -- I always run the latest-greatest), as Apple sunset Aperture and its upcoming Photos app sounds like one of their patented one step forward, two steps back kind of things. Also, with Aperture splitting up libraries once they get too big is a painful/scary thing. Lightroom which just uses the file system for photo storage seems like a less painful approach.
That said: I was expecting way better performance from Lightroom -- the general consensus I've seen is that Lightroom is vastly superior. However on my maxed out 2013 retina MacBook Pro the simple act of selecting pictures for editing which I do by flipping through my shoot in full screen mode and flagging the ones I like for later editing, Lightroom presents the its spinning wait thing if anything more than Aperture does its "loading" thing. I am also bother by its non-Mac like interface for things like going into full screen mode, its in window menus, etc. IMO: Cross platform UIs are never a good idea.
Does anyone have a different experience? Any tips on easily using PhotoStraem with Lightroom? Would love to hear from other users.