Posts by bikertwin

Quote: Originally Posted by John.B It's not just Photoshopping Oprah's head onto Ann Margaret's body. Layers and masks are the tools used to selectively apply corrections so, for example, adjustments like noise reduction can easily...

Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 If Apple built Aperture mainly as a photographer's database, they would have been better off just fixing the finder. Aperture is like iTunes. You don't even think about Finder when you use them....

Quote: Originally Posted by John.B But would you have to use layers and masks? Or could you ignore them? Did it occur to you that those features don't have to be hard to use? That Adobe alone is responsible for the lack of usability...

Quote: Originally Posted by stumbleone Unless I missed it somewhere, A3 still doesn't seem to do CMYK conversion, which is an absolute must for those involved in magazine photos. (Does Lightroom?) If A3 had CMYK I could dispense with...

Quote: Originally Posted by John.B Well, we got Aperture 3, but it's about half of what I hoped it would be. What Aperture needed to be a real game changer was masks/layers. Masks and layers are the last thing on Earth I'd want...

A knowledgebase article says: Quote: The new Aperture 3 database format offers many benefits, including better performance, the ability to split and merge libraries, and switch between libraries without relaunching Aperture. Yay!

Anyone know if it's in stores yet?

Well I'm glad I didn't give up the faith. And those rumors of new Aperture "X" books in the Spring turned out to be true. This really is the major update I was hoping for. Couldn't be happier!

Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 From MacWorld's lips... MacWorld doesn't seem to do much rumor-mongering, so it's surprising nothing happened there. Maybe an Aperture announcement was delayed? We can only hope.

Well, Chinese workers are finally seeing the light and rebelling like American workers did a century or so ago. Hopefully they'll fight for pay and health & environmental improvements, raising the cost of doing business (but also...