I Have a New Favorite Program
I spent Palm Sunday at work. After a busy morning, things wound down and we started talking. It came up in conversation that one of the girls needs to get a laptop and then since we were at work already of course we felt a need to talk about it as well. During a break in the proceedings while one of the anesthesia docs did a curbside consult in the otherwise deserted holding area, I looked up the university’s campus computer connection. I looked at their policy. All faculty, staff, and students of said university were entitled to shop there as well as those who were affiliated with the university’s hospital as well as ours. That’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time. I wish I had known earlier. I bought this computer for list value a year ago. I had never thought that our place of employment, which on paper is an independent, is covered under the university’s umbrella as part of the educational conglomerate.
I went over there today on my day off and seized it– Aperture. At $500 list, it was way too expensive to consider but it had gotten so many great reviews from everyone as nicely beginning to solve the problem of digital photographers which is workflow. My computer qualifies as being able to run it. I only have an iMac, so it’s a little sluggish, but it works and it’s amazing. I’m dumbfounded in just the few minutes that I’ve been here playing with it. It’s a move away from Adobe since it’s Apple program and a lot of things are different than the way things are in Photoshop, but it’s actually a lot like OS X. They’ve thought of a lot of the problems people are having with so much digital data, especially when it comes to RAW files. It even makes it easy to send a picture to Photoshop for pixel-pushing when you want to get a graphic out of a photograph.
The only thing I wish is that it ran a little faster. It’s said a dual-processor tower will run it beautifully. But I don’t really need that, do I? Hey, I might be able to get a deal…
April 10th, 2006 | Category: Tech
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