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Apple's new pro-level photo editing software looks GREAT. It has 90% of the features I use from Photoshop and some cool new features on top of them. Unfortunately, it requires a 2Ghz dual G5 or better to use it recommends a 2Ghz dual G5 or better, it requires Power Mac G5 with a 1.8 gigahertz (GHz) or faster PowerPC G5 processor, 17- or 20-inch iMac G5 with a 1.8 GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processor, 15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with a 1.25 GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor. This means it wll be at least a year until I touch it. I won't be able to touch it until Apple ships a highend Intel desktop system and ports Apature to run Native. This just won't run on my Minimac in a usefull way. Apple may infact check which machine you run it on (they do things like this with bundled software, if you upgrade to a new system you can't reinstall your old bundled software.)
The flash demos look great. Apple has a history of producing really good highend software for video and audio. I assume their Image products will be as good. It isn't entirely clear if you will still need Photoshop for somethings or if Apature will do it all.
For me, most of what I do is image processing but I do on occasion do some image editing. For the price I would really like to see some image editing abilities. I would like at a minimum, a patern clone tool, a anti-alias paint tool, a pixel level paint tool, and blending tool.
Posted by pqbon at October 19, 2005 12:53 PM | TrackBackAperture doesn't require a dual G5. Their minimum specs says it can be run on G4 1.25mhz or better. That being said, $500 to pay for a new photo editing program when you already have Photoshop seems like an unnessary expenditure of funds.
Posted by: M at October 19, 2005 3:19 PMum, I know this is going to sound silly, but what is the difference between image processing and image editing?
But I do agree with M above about how it seems a little expensive to get if one already has Photoshop. What does Aperture offer to encourage Photoshop people to switch - beyond loyalty to Apple? I'm genuinely curious about this since I still haven't gotten around to learning how to play with my photos *after* I've taken the picture....
Posted by: bernadette at October 21, 2005 11:04 AM