We talked about Viveza a bit on the last Pro Photo Roundtable. It the newest software from Nik that allows you to control tones, contrast and more, with precise control over specific areas of an image without having to make selections. It does this by using UPoint technology.
I have it in my hands, and so far it’s pretty IMPRESSIVE!
This is exciting because it takes a very different approach, and though there is room for more advancement it going to be a great tool. Stay tune for more on this and in the meantime you can check it out over on the NIK website.
Update… Cnet Reporter Stephen Shankland Contacted PPS (as well as left a comment) in regards to the poll. He says the the poll is absolutely not gamed, and that Apple in no way dictates his reporting.
“the poll is not faked or some church-and-state-violating, undisclosed advertising scheme that Apple or CNET cooked up. Also, I’d note that online polls shouldn’t be trusted to be a statistically valid representation of “approval rating” or some other form of market or public preference. Finally, our software blocks multiple votes from the same IP address”
Stephen feel that the poll probably just got voted on a lot by Apple fans, and naturally once Apple linked to it the apple fans would be all over it. I can say that I myself get a lot of info from Cnet, and have never felt their reporters have a lack of journalistic integrity. It’s good to see their proactive about responding to this rumor.
As to which one is actually better. I’ll leave that up to you!
Theres been quite a bit of attention given to a poll over on Cnet that claims Apertures approval rating is around 65% while Lightroom only has about 36% Apple was so happy about this that they were actually bragging about the poll results on their site.
Now we think Cnet is usually pretty good about these things, but it really looks like this poll may be at least woefully wrong.
We’re not here to put down a poll simply because Aperture is winning. The poll percentages however don’t change more than a tiny fraction over time, even though the number of votes does. Mainly however we know there are FAR more LR users than Aperture users and these poll results make no sense with what we see in the industry. Apple is bragging about these results likes it’s a victory, but what we see in the poll just doesn’t jive with what we see in the real world. You can also see this LR news article for more info.
Something defiantly seems bogus here. We’ll keep our eye on this and see where it goes. Could Apple be so desperate that their getting Cnet to skew polls just to get noticed? Is there an error? Or is this actually be accurate? We’ve added our own Lightroom vs Aperture poll below. We’ll see what comes of it.
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???
With todays ever smaller flash drives I kept feeling I should have one in my wallet. There are a few out there like the Blue Flash, or Walletex, but their more spendy than regular flash drives, and I got to thinking… Those things would actually be kinda clunky when plugged into my laptop.
My data packing life changed today when I made my own credit card flash drive. Even if your not a photographer you’ll find good use for 2-4 gigs of usb data in your wallet everywhere you go. It’s not only cool, it’s cheap, and you can use just about any old (or stylish new) card to do it with.
We talked about Viveza a bit on the last Pro Photo Roundtable. It the newest software from Nik that allows you to control tones, contrast and more, with precise control over specific areas of an image without having to make selections. It does this by using UPoint technology.
Theres been quite a bit of attention given to a 
With todays ever smaller flash drives I kept feeling I should have one in my wallet. There are a few out there like the 
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