UPDATE!!
It looks like this poll may be inaccurate. See this post for more!
We had a lot of discussion on this weeks roundtable about these two. Some listeners even think we’re not fair to Aperture.
Though Lightroom does have far more market share than Apple Aperture, a recent poll on Cnet says that Aperture is actually a better program.
Interesting results to be sure. It seems that a lot of folks really love Aperture 2, and it’s now $100 cheaper to boot so we have to give Apple props there.
Though I’m in the Lightroom camp, largely because of presets, I’ve not forgotten about Aperture. The good news is that theres still competition between them both, which in the end will give us all better products.
We want to give everyone a fair shake here on PPS! Which do you like better and why???
I was an Aperture user, but played with the Lightroom beta and purchased 1.0. I too find the Lightroom presets compelling because of workflow advantages as well as creativity options. I wish Lightroom had dual monitor support as does Aperture, but I am far more comfortable with Lightroom’s develop module. Lightroom also has considerably more sites like this that help with education, resources and enhance the Lightroom experience. I did purchase 2.0 because as a NAPP member, it only cost $82 with my Apple discount, but Lightroom still feels like home to me.
Jeff
I don’t use either right now. I use Photoshop and Bridge. I already had a filing system before Lightroom and Aperture. I use metatags from Bridge and I am about a 1.5 terabytes of images now I do not see any real advantage of changing. I am debating adding Nikon Capture NX for its raw editing and to use with the WiFi of my D2X but I am really happy with Photoshop and Bridge right now.
:???:Hi Gavin my problem with the polls is that as you yourself said Lightroom is cross platform and Aperture is Apple only and this isn’t taken into account. To get a true poll you would have to poll Mac users only.
Also both intergrate with Photoshop, Aperture can export as PSD and you can set Photoshop as the External editor.
I am a novice but can anyone tell me if Aperture uses the metatags to organise images.
Many thanks
Javed