i just love aperture. but hate the speed of the develop module. this i just changed for lightroom. since im only working a few days in lightroom. i still need to check all those small features. thanks indeed!

Hey,

Are you saying that Lightroom development is much faster when cropping and such than Aperture? Also, when you crop do you use a custom crop or a standard ie 2×3 or 4×5?

Great video!

Thanks,

Calvin

Hi Kay,

Very interesting to see someone’s workflow, although it’s a little fast sometimes

I have the same problem with being used to separate management and editing software, and are not comfortable (yet?) with Lightroom. I’m on windows and use the free Picasa, which does what it should, is fast, non destructive and crops/straightens easy for me. For editing I like the layers, filters and actions of Photoshop (now with ARC used to do with DPP for RAW conversion). Free Borderline utility puts my logo and resizes for web with final sharpening.

In your editing do you feel that you are more reporting than artistic? Do you try to represent the situation as closely as you saw it or do you just want the result to be a nice picture? I mean if for composition it would be nicer, do you edit out certain elements like a foot in the corner or something?

Second question if I may, continued on Calvin’s good question, why do you constrain yourself to a fixed cropsize? Is it personal taste or do customers demand that? I think photo-editors of magazines/newspapers will mostly crop a picture again in their own strange format?
I once had to crop all my pictures for a widescreen (16×9) presentation, have you ever tried that? (very difficult on portrait-orientation…)

Thanks again,
Lourens

I’m pretty familiar with Aperture and Lightroom but I can’t even tell what’s going on in the video, might be sped up a little too fast and some dialog would help immensely.