I’ll keep Aperture. It is slow with adjustments and the limited RAW support still worries me, but I think it is still a better design than LightRoom. Those two problems can be fixed with time.

LightRoom biggest problems are its modality and weaker cataloguing system. Its modality cannot be fixed without redoing the program completely. Its library system has itself an annoying modality: you work either in folder or in catalogue mode. In folder mode you can use stacks. In catalogue mode you can’t. This is bad. That last point can be corrected but really it is bad design.

Plus, I finally found out the origin of the problem with the hack to get Aperture to work DSC-R1 files and fixed that. I’ll probably get a faster machine in the next months.

Case closed for me.

For now.

Stephane :: Mar.04.2007 :: Software :: No Comments »