POLL: Aperture 2 (or 3) vs Lightroom, whats your pick?

[laksman91]

I'm picking up a DSLR this week, and I'm looking to get either one of these programs. So I was wondering whats your favourite/preferred program and maybe a little reason why

[MistaChin]

Good poll..would definitely be interested in some opinions as well.

[Skip]

I use photoshop cs3 alot, but recently I started using Lightroom and it is the biggest timesaver ever when it comes to batch processing and working with RAW files.. haven't had the opportunity to try Aperture though

[drey]

I've been using Photoshop cs2 for most of my editing. I have had Lightroom installed for a while but I always keep going back to Photoshop. Aperture I've never used. Lightroom is works on PC and Mac, so that's the advantage over Aperture.

[Mr. Scruples]

Hi

First post for me here, and wouldn't you know it, it's not even about the car :blush

(a 2010 3 GS Sport I'll be picking up on Saturday, FWIW)

Aaaanyway, I've been happily using Aperture since v1.0 was released, and far prefer it's asset management features over Lightroom's. I'm a media librarian though, so that kind of thing is important to me -- YMMV.

I do tend to use Photoshop for ~80% of my post-processing, but that's just because I've been working with it for over 10 years now, so I'm far more comfortable doing things there than anywhere else. Round-tripping a file is a piece of cake though, so it's not really a big deal to do that. And ever since Aperture 3 was released, I've been using it a lot more thanks to the edit brushes, etc.

It's more resource hungry than Lightroom though, so you'll want a pretty beefy Mac, or at least as much RAM as you can get your hands on (although 3 is a huge improvement over 2 in terms of speed thanks to being 64-bit)..

[laksman91]

I just downloaded Aperture 3, and I like its "Faces" system better than iPhotos so far.