Adobe photoshop lightroom price comparison
Adobe photoshop lightroom price comparison
At the initial brainstorming, where the project “Shadowland” was decided upon, the perception was strong that the digital professional photographer will need a serious tool to organize the gigabyte of data they bring back from every assignment. Since that the pro is not willing to spend a lot of time fiddling in Photoshop with hundreds of pictures, the program would need to be easy to use, straight forward, powerful, yet small, only the necessary ingredients and no excess flamboyance, nice to look at but distinctively different from the flagship’s interface. The pressure was put on the team by the competitor Apple, announcing a product designed to fill the niche. The fight was on. Since that there is no other software which can rival Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, but the Aperture by Apple, the price and functionality comparison should be between these two. Photo Mechanic could also be considered, by Camera Bits, Inc., but it misses cataloguing capabilities and a bit more on the editing part, besides the provided color correction. Apple’s Aperture was released in October 2005, and was immediately compared to the as of yet nonexistent Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which was preparing for the beta testing phase. Like with all such high end competing products, it is hard to say which one is better. It will come down to the personal preference, because both programs have somewhat different interfaces. But having a look at the bottom line will provide a hefty answer, because similar pricing require something else, widespread portability. Apple shot themselves in the foot there, because Aperture does not run on anything below a Mac G5 and requires serious resources, no Windows, of course and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom runs on anything that runs Mac OS X, G5 or G4, Powerbook or whatever, and add to that Windows XP and Vista. Another thing speaks for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the seamless integration with Adobe’s own Photoshop. While Aperture has native support for PSD files, Adobe was able to provide Lightroom with a one click switch to Adobe Photoshop. When using Aperture for a while, the biggest flaw becomes evident. There is no way to import more pictures than ten thousand, which is the limit of a project. The pictures have to be organized in projects there. Besides the metadata search takes forever and then longer. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom seems to just buzz through these processes. Not good if you are a pro, after a week of work, with Aperture you are already hitting the limit of the app, with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom it seems like you did not even start.
