10-24-2011, 02:10 PM
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1319397278' post='12436']
Hi,
I know there are plenty of entries in other forums, but I didn't see anything here. There is a reason why I ask here where I know people best.
Recently got an imac (moving over from windows) and am looking into imaging software. I had an aperture trial, now expired and still have a few days left on a light room trial. Still find it hard to make up my mind. The real cost seems the human cost: learning interfaces, converting/re-creating catalogs. I prefer out-of the box colours from the mac-software (also the simple i-photo seems to give great colours from Oly-files). Though the interface of lightroom seems cleaner (perhaps I am just used to the Adobe way of doing stuff). I essentially used both pieces of software as raw editors, haven't explored much else, e.g. image managment. Not having soft-proving in LR seems a big bug-bear to me (I print a quite a few inkjet images).
Most of my current files are from an Oly E-P1. I have Canon S45 raw files, which are unfortunately unsupported in Aperture <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Any idea about mixed workflows, it might be an idea to get a recent PSE10 license to have S45 capabilities.
Thanks in advance
Joachim
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Hi Joachim,
Maybe another alternative is fixing the way image looks in Lightroom by using input presets.
That is creating profile presets with these X-Rite colorchecker and having them applied to your camera files. I've found a few posts about this and it seemed rather convincing (A GH2 user http://e-p1.net/micro-four-thirds-genera...ssport%29/ )
I'm a bit curious as to why you don't like your lightroom output (i'm generally very pleased with it, a lot more than Adobe interpretation of Canon colors) and wonder if it's not caused by mac+lightroom not giving you the same win+lightroom output, although unlikely.
I think I'd check out these aspects before dismissing lightroom output just yet, especially if you own it already.
Hope this helps,
Sylvain
Hi,
I know there are plenty of entries in other forums, but I didn't see anything here. There is a reason why I ask here where I know people best.
Recently got an imac (moving over from windows) and am looking into imaging software. I had an aperture trial, now expired and still have a few days left on a light room trial. Still find it hard to make up my mind. The real cost seems the human cost: learning interfaces, converting/re-creating catalogs. I prefer out-of the box colours from the mac-software (also the simple i-photo seems to give great colours from Oly-files). Though the interface of lightroom seems cleaner (perhaps I am just used to the Adobe way of doing stuff). I essentially used both pieces of software as raw editors, haven't explored much else, e.g. image managment. Not having soft-proving in LR seems a big bug-bear to me (I print a quite a few inkjet images).
Most of my current files are from an Oly E-P1. I have Canon S45 raw files, which are unfortunately unsupported in Aperture <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Any idea about mixed workflows, it might be an idea to get a recent PSE10 license to have S45 capabilities.
Thanks in advance
Joachim
[/quote]
Hi Joachim,
Maybe another alternative is fixing the way image looks in Lightroom by using input presets.
That is creating profile presets with these X-Rite colorchecker and having them applied to your camera files. I've found a few posts about this and it seemed rather convincing (A GH2 user http://e-p1.net/micro-four-thirds-genera...ssport%29/ )
I'm a bit curious as to why you don't like your lightroom output (i'm generally very pleased with it, a lot more than Adobe interpretation of Canon colors) and wonder if it's not caused by mac+lightroom not giving you the same win+lightroom output, although unlikely.
I think I'd check out these aspects before dismissing lightroom output just yet, especially if you own it already.
Hope this helps,
Sylvain