I need to do some post production for a about 600 wedding photos. I just need a program that can efficiently and quickly help me through that. I can work in both Windows and Mac so OS selection is not a problem. I have PS as well, but only on my Mac.

I do this as a hobby so anything to help me in the long run would be great. Just an intuitive and easy to use program for simple/quick editing is all I need.

I will likely need a program that can do

Exposure
Vignette
Contrast
Light photo editing (clone, soften..)

Thanks.

P.S. I really like the adjustment brush on LR2.0, is there something similar on Aperture?

 

You can d/l both for a 30 day trial. I think you'll like LR better, I only messed with Aperture for about 30 minutes a year and a half ago, LR was much smoother and that was 1.3.

 

I've used both on macs and ended up buying LR2 and putting it on my mac. It runs well and so far I haven't had any problems. I've found it very simple and intuitive to use. I can't speak for the light photo editing since I use PS (on my PC) for that.

 

Yeah, I saw the trial, I just wanted to go right into it without having to hate one and switch later on. I'll end up trying both I guess, the new LR does look pretty nice, I really love the adjustment brush.

 

If you get LR, you're not switching to Aperture, maybe the other way, but not LR to Aperture.

 

Is there a way to use the "hot and cold" feature on Aperture in LR2? Does it have something similar?

 

Are you talking about clipping? If so, that's the Histogram in LR. Just hit the ^ button in the same box.

 

Nah, Aperture has this feature that tells you areas that are "hot" meaning overexposed or "cold" underexposed. It's a little more specific and tells you where on the actual photo that there are exposure problems. It colors overexposed areas in red and underexposed areas in blue. It's pretty neat actually. You can turn the whole picture black and only see the heatmap. Not entirely useful, but nice to have.

After using both for a few hours, I think overall I like LR better. But only slightly.

 

If you click on the up arrows in the box with the histogram, it shows you the hot/cold areas. Or you can just put your mouse on top of them for a temporary look at the hot/cold area.

There's no heatmap feature though.

- Frank

 

So it is clipping, you adjust the recovery and the fill light to balance these out.