Post-Processing with Aperture

[DrTrey]

I have just purchased the Apple Aperture program for post-processing and manipulation of images taken with a Canon 60 D camera. I'm still very new to this daunting new world of photography, and I was wondering if Aperture would suffice for all the necessary post-processing of RAW images. I'd rather not have to buy Adobe Photoshop as well, unless it's absolutely necessary. Does anybody out there have any experience with Aperture?

 

[DrTrey]

Evening bump...

 

[DrTrey]

Independence Day bumpity-bump....

 

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I use it, love it.

You do not need anything else.

 

[Troylee]

Wish I knew what you were talking about haha!!!! If that guy above me uses it, it must be good there pictures have to be the nicest around IMHO...;)

 

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I have barely scratched the surface as to what this program will do. Brett uses CS4 and has all these cool shortcuts that he programmed for one button resizing. I need to do this in aperture and I will be a happy man.

 

[DrTrey]

I use it, love it.

You do not need anything else.

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know.

I can see that Aperture has quite a few customizable macro or "shortcut" options, but that's still way too advanced for me at this point. I'm still wrestling with getting a good white balance result on the RAW image processing

 

[returnofsid]

I believe Aperture is only for Mac computers or Apple based equipment, such as IPads.

 

[bob]

I've started to switch back over to Adobe Lightroom...Aperture is slow as balls on my i7 macbook pro with 4gigs of memory which is unacceptable.

 

[DrTrey]

I believe Aperture is only for Mac computers or Apple based equipment, such as IPads.

You are correct, sir!! And I wouldn't have any other way. Macs are simply the coolest...