Apple has released the newest sibling in their Pro suite of applications, Aperture.
I can’t believe the luck! They finally created an app that is for photographers and was actually needed! Bridge had come along in the Adobe world, but had severely failed to impress.
In the lab environment that I work in, I was extremely dissappointed. Two methods of caching, one in distributed files, and the other in one file and both still molasses slow.
This whole issue of caching causes problems within a lab environment as well. What do I, as a user, see of the cache? I see the drain on performance during the initial cache of a new folder or drive of images. In a lab setting where computers are all walk-up, auto-login, open to use, this means that the files are never old, cached files. Every time someone walks up, the caching process starts over again with the files that they place from their hard drive, disk, server space, etc.
I ran into this problem with spolight, as well, forcing me to either turn it off, or deal with it. (I did both…explanation for another time)
Now, with Aperture, it seems that Apple has released a product, that, if it can deliver on the preview’s promises, will revolutionize the time consuming tasks of image browsing and retrieval.
I also like that Aperture is bringing version control to the sweating, meaty photographic masses. (Is that too graphic?) Most of these phtoogrpahers have never heard of such things as SVN, CVS, or sourcesafe. Why should they have? Well….becuase they’re dealing with data, duh! Granted, that data ends up being used to display images and not programs, but all the same, it’s data. Now, thanks to Apple, photographers will soon enjoy on the digital side, the same priviledges that richers photographers with storage rooms, flatfile systems, and binder systems enjoy.
Digital photographers will enjoy their newfound system alot more than those old “analog” photographers, becuase they will also increase their use of metatags. And discover the joys of the quick search. No longer needing to deal with the slow browse, of the Bridge/Photoshop past.
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