So Aperture’s here and everyone’s getting their licks in. Ars Technica has published a comprehensive review of it’s faults, pretty much poo-pooing it through till the end. Frasier Spears, author of the excellent FlickrExport for iPhoto, has been running through it as well, while looking into it’s plugin architecture, for a FlickrExport for Aperture (and having some luck) with it.
Raul Gutierrez from the also excellent Mexican Pictures, has a laundry list of issues (though I think he’d need a supercomputer for “several hundred gigs of negatives scanned at 4000dpi”), while Justin Ouellette from Chromogenic (excellence need not be mentioned), is mostly gushing.
I’ve been using it lightly for the past couple of days and am on the gushing side, but mostly about what the program WILL be, but isn’t yet. I can mostly ignore the problems with RAW format exporting, since I’m back in a film-only state of mind right now, but I don’t really dig the one-library-file-no-folder-structure way of things, as it was always pretty easy for me to scan directly to a folder and have iView check the folders for new files.
I still think it’s a pretty outstanding piece of software, has a ton of potential, but like me in third grade, just doesn’t play well with others. And hopefully it’ll stop running so damn slow when I get a decent video card.
A few more things to read about Aperture:
- Ars Technica Discussion Forum
- Aperture Users Group on Flickr
- Adam Tow has been scripting the hell out of it
- Hands on with Aperture from Photo District News
- Review/Preview on RobGalbraith.com
- And of course, Apple’s own site for Aperture, with Quicktime demos and the like
- Aperture on a Powerbook, Pt. 1 at O’Reilly
- Slashdot’s comments
Update: Ars Technica has done a follow-up, though this was still before the latest 1.0.1 update which seems to have addressed a lot of issues.