apple's aperture vs acr

[neil_ross]

ok, my laptop is dying by the minute and i might go and get a mac in the morning but thought i would ask.......



those of you with a mac, do you use apple's aperture or ACR?

i use acr at the moment and love the way it works but cant stand using bridge, its so power hungry and ends up hanging when loading a file of a few thousand pics.

[PaulMontgomery]

I use ACR as supplied with elements 8 on my mac. I'm currently working on a directory with 500 Nikon raw files in it and haven't noticed any performance issues...

[neil_ross]

cheers paul!

ive just got my imac home and so far it seems amazing, its gonna take some getting used to though!!

i will carry on using ACR as ive finally got the hang of it, loving being sat on the sofa with this little keyboard!

what do you use to organise your images?

[Oly Paul]

You should download the free 30day trial of Aperture and Lightroom 3 and see how they suit you.

After you have tried LR3 I doubt you will want to go back to Bridge and ACR.

[anglefire]

I must be one of the few Paul. I can't get on with LR - prefer Bridge and ACR - Mini Bridge in CS5 is good too.

[neil_ross]

I will have to download the trial I think!

Angelfire, what's mini bridge like compared to bridge?

[chris-p]

Originally Posted by Oly Paul

After you have tried LR3 I doubt you will want to go back to Bridge and ACR.

Oh, I would. Can't stand LR...

[AndyStevens]

I use ACR / Photoshop CS5 for RAW conversions and tweaks - and LR for DAM (but once I've had LR longer than a couple of weeks, I'll start trying it for RAW conversions too).

[neil_ross]

i will download and try LR3 in the next few days, im getting a bit sick of how long bridge takes to render the preview images!

[PaulMontgomery]

Sorry for the delay - I use Bridge for my cataloguing work.