Those who take digital photography seriously need the right software to
import, organize, correct, and disseminate their work. Which suits you
best?
Mereka yang mengambil fotografi digital serius memerlukan perangkat lunak yang tepat untuk mengimpor, mengatur, benar, dan menyebarkan pekerjaan mereka. Yang cocok untuk anda?
Judging from the increasing sales of DSLRs,
more and more people are getting into digital photography in a serious
way. You only have to look around any tourist zone in the world, and
you'll
see a surprising number of shooters using cameras capable of far
superior images to those possible with point-and-shoots and smart phone
cameras. But even the cameras on-board those smart phones have improved
impressively, themselves, with new entries like the "41-megapixel" Nokia
Lumia 1020$149.99 at Amazon.
see a surprising number of shooters using cameras capable of far
superior images to those possible with point-and-shoots and smart phone
cameras. But even the cameras on-board those smart phones have improved
impressively, themselves, with new entries like the "41-megapixel" Nokia
Lumia 1020$149.99 at Amazon.
Dilihat dari penjualan meningkat dari DSLR, semakin banyak orang yang masuk ke fotografi digital secara serius. Anda hanya perlu melihat-lihat setiap zona wisata di dunia, dan Anda akan melihat sejumlah mengejutkan penembak menggunakan kamera mampu gambar jauh lebih unggul dari mereka mungkin dengan titik-dan-tunas dan kamera ponsel pintar. Tetapi bahkan kamera on-board tersebut ponsel pintar telah meningkat mengesankan, sendiri, dengan entri baru seperti "41-megapixel" Nokia Lumia 1020 $ 149,99 di Amazon.
All this points to the fact that
people care about their photographs, and want them to be the best they
can be. Pro photographers have long known that having top-notch hardware
is just half the story: You need software that can take the
photographic "negatives" from tho
se great digital cameras and turn them into really pleasing images. The choice used to be simple: You used Photoshop. End of story. But while Photoshop is great for working on individual photos, it's weaker when it comes to importing, organizing, rating, and outputting the photos.
Semua ini menunjukkan fakta bahwa orang-orang peduli tentang foto-foto mereka, dan ingin mereka menjadi yang terbaik yang mereka dapat. Fotografer Pro telah lama mengetahui bahwa memiliki top-notch hardware hanya setengah cerita: Anda membutuhkan software yang dapat mengambil fotografi "negatif" dari orang-kamera digital yang besar dan mengubahnya menjadi gambar yang benar-benar menyenangkan. Pilihannya digunakan untuk menjadi sederhana: Anda menggunakan Photoshop. Akhir cerita. Tapi sementara Photoshop sangat bagus untuk bekerja pada masing-masing foto, itu lebih lemah ketika datang untuk mengimpor, mengatur, rating, dan keluaran foto.
se great digital cameras and turn them into really pleasing images. The choice used to be simple: You used Photoshop. End of story. But while Photoshop is great for working on individual photos, it's weaker when it comes to importing, organizing, rating, and outputting the photos.
Semua ini menunjukkan fakta bahwa orang-orang peduli tentang foto-foto mereka, dan ingin mereka menjadi yang terbaik yang mereka dapat. Fotografer Pro telah lama mengetahui bahwa memiliki top-notch hardware hanya setengah cerita: Anda membutuhkan software yang dapat mengambil fotografi "negatif" dari orang-kamera digital yang besar dan mengubahnya menjadi gambar yang benar-benar menyenangkan. Pilihannya digunakan untuk menjadi sederhana: Anda menggunakan Photoshop. Akhir cerita. Tapi sementara Photoshop sangat bagus untuk bekerja pada masing-masing foto, itu lebih lemah ketika datang untuk mengimpor, mengatur, rating, dan keluaran foto.
Aperture 3.3
In 2005 Aperture
made its debut to address just these needs, as a more pro-level version
of iPhoto. It offered Photoshop-like image adjustments along with tools
for photo organization, as well as for creating slideshows, printing,
and sharing to online services such as Flickr. But Aperture lacked, and
still largely lacks, the emphasis on workflow, which takes you through discrete steps of the photo processing.
Pada tahun 2005 Aperture memulai debutnya untuk mengatasi hanya kebutuhan ini, sebagai versi pro-tingkat yang lebih dari iPhoto. Ini menawarkan penyesuaian gambar Photoshop-seperti bersama dengan alat untuk organisasi foto, serta untuk menciptakan slideshow, percetakan, dan berbagi untuk layanan online seperti Flickr. Tapi Aperture terkunci, dan sebagian besar masih kekurangan, penekanan pada alur kerja, yang akan membawa Anda melalui langkah-langkah diskrit pengolahan foto.
Two years later Adobe came out with Lightroom, which combined just
those workflow characteristics with the photo-specific adjustment tools
from Photoshop itself, to serve the needs of professional photographers.
Lightroom$109.99 at Lenovo
left out the design-type tools—typography, layering, masking and all
that sort of thing. Lightroom did include the editing tools needed to
get photos looking their best—lighting, color, sharpness, and the like.
Dua tahun kemudian Adobe keluar dengan Lightroom, yang dikombinasikan hanya karakteristik alur kerja dengan alat penyesuaian foto-spesifik dari Photoshop itu sendiri, untuk melayani kebutuhan para fotografer profesional. Lightroom $ 109,99 di Lenovo ditinggalkan desain-jenis alat-tipografi, layering, masking dan semua hal semacam itu. Lightroom tidak termasuk alat editing yang diperlukan untuk mendapatkan foto terbaik mencari-pencahayaan, warna, ketajaman, dan sejenisnya.
Lightroom 5
It's worth noting that there are
several things each app does equally or nearly equally well—raw
conversion is one. Their ability to work with camera raw files lets you
get all of the image data from your camera's sensor, for a lot more
powerful corrections to white balance, exposure, and more. There's an
excellent explanation of the advantages you get by shooting to raw
format on Cambridge in Color.
Ini perlu dicatat bahwa ada beberapa hal yang masing-masing aplikasi yang sama atau konversi hampir sama baiknya-mentah adalah satu. Kemampuan mereka untuk bekerja dengan file baku kamera memungkinkan Anda mendapatkan semua data gambar dari sensor kamera Anda, untuk koreksi jauh lebih kuat untuk white balance, exposure, dan banyak lagi. Ada penjelasan yang sangat baik dari keuntungan yang Anda dapatkan dengan menembak ke format mentah di Cambridge di Color.
Other similarities include both programs' ability to correct specific areas of a photo with local adjustment brushes, work with tone curves and histograms, perform cropping, lay out and send photo books out for printing, to create quality slideshows. They also both do a good job of mapping your geo-tagged photos and of directly uploading them to online services such as Flickr, SmugMug, and Facebook.
Kesamaan lainnya termasuk kemampuan kedua program 'untuk memperbaiki area-area tertentu dari foto dengan kuas penyesuaian lokal, bekerja dengan kurva nada dan histogram, melakukan cropping, lay out dan mengirim buku foto keluar untuk pencetakan, untuk menciptakan slideshow kualitas. Mereka juga sama-sama melakukan pekerjaan yang baik pemetaan geo-tagged foto dan Anda langsung meng-upload ke layanan online seperti Flickr, SmugMug, dan Facebook.
There's a whole site dedicated just to the topic of Aperture vs. Lightroom at aperturevslightroom.com, with regular features on different specific aspects of photo processing in the two applications. But here, I'll stick to presenting the major differences and strengths of each, to help you make the choice.
Ada keseluruhan situs yang didedikasikan hanya untuk topik Aperture vs Lightroom di aperturevslightroom.com, dengan fitur biasa pada aspek-aspek tertentu yang berbeda dari pengolahan foto dalam dua aplikasi. Tapi di sini, aku akan tetap menghadirkan perbedaan utama dan kekuatan masing-masing, untuk membantu Anda membuat pilihan.
Windows? Advantage Lightroom
If you're running a Mac, you have the choice that the title of this article posits: If you run a Windows System, it's a moot point, since Aperture is not available for that operating system. And there are reasons photographers might prefer to run Windows, with more upgrade options for storage and other system components. That's less of an issue if you're using an old-school Power Mac, but iMacs, Mac minis, an MacBooks are not internally upgradable.
And Windows users also have more photo workflow software applications to choose among: in addition to Lightroom, worthy options include ACDSee Pro 6, Corel AfterShot Pro, CyberLink PhotoDirectorC$99.99 at Amazon, and Serif PhotoPlus. But that's not to say you don't have other photo workflow options in OS X: ACDSee Pro 3 is available, and there's even the completely free, open-source darktable
Mac User Moving Up from iPhoto: Advantage Aperture
Since the release of Aperture 3.3, the process of importing photos from the entry-level photo app to Aperture has become virtually non-existent: Now iPhoto projects can be accessed directly from within Aperture. This is because both applications now use the same library. On a side note, if you use Apple's iCloud Photo Stream, these two apps are good choices, since support for that online photo storage service is built right into Aperture.
Mode-Based Interface: Your Call
One of the biggest differentiators between Aperture and Lightroom is all about modes and the lack thereof. All this means is that each step in your photo processing has a specific interface, or mode, for getting that particular task done. So along the top of the Lightroom interface are several buttons (you can choose a custom set of these if you like), including Library, Develop, Print, Slideshow, Map, and so on.
Some will prefer Aperture's modeless interface. This lets you use tabs on a control panel to switch among all of the programs.
Face Recognition: Advantage Aperture
The ability to organize your photos by the people whose visages appear in them can be a useful organizational tool for amateurs and pros alike. Bring up all photos showing Aunt Bessie with Cousin Cathy? Face recognition makes that a simple task compared with having to page through hundreds of images. For some reason, Lightroom still lacks this feature, though Adobe's consumer-level Photoshop Elements offering does include excellent face recognition.
Lens Profile Corrections: Advantage Lightroom
If the idea is to get your photo looking as close to the actual scene that was in front of your camera when you clicked the shutter, then one way to achieve that goal is to compensate for any known imperfections of the equipment you're using. Lightroom can automatically correct lens-introduced problems in barrel and pincushion distortion, vignetting (dark photo edges), and chromatic aberration, by adjusting the image based on the known characteristics of the lens you used. Adobe is aggressive about keeping these corrections up to date as new cameras and lenses are introduced.
Geometry Correction: Advantage Lightroom
Lightroom (and Photoshop CC) recently added a tool called Upright, which can fix perspective distortion that results from wide angle lenses or from non-direct camera angles. Aperture still is without any correction of geometry issues in photos.
Geotagging and Maps: Tie
Both applications do an excellent job of placing your geo-tagged photos on a map, though I slightly prefer Lightroom's mini-slideshow right on the map:
Lighting Fixes: Advantage Lightroom
While Aperture does offer a good selection of lighting adjustments, I was unable to get the kind of results Lightroom made possible, particularly when trying to bring out shadowed areas without blowing out the sky and other brights. Another ace in the hole for Lightroom is its unique Clarity adjustment, which can bring a dull photo to life without giving it the oversaturated look you often get with most programs' Vibrance adjustment. Clarity adds contrast only to midtones, for a punchier result. Aperture's Definitiion adjuster now mimics Clarity, though it doesn't offer as much range of adjustment.
Chromatic Aberration and Noise Reduction: Advantage Lightroom
Chromatic aberration is a lens distortion that shows up mostly on very high contrast areas towards the edges of a wide-angle image, yet it can crop up in other situations. Corrections tools in photo software has long been of dubious help: the color sliders the tools have offered often only allowed me to make worse distortions, rather than making those colored fringes go away. Aperture still offers this kind of hit-or-miss CA correction, but Lightroom has adopted the technique of the excellent DxO Optics Pro—just automatically fix CA based on the lens used. This technique removes the distortion with no fuss whatever.
Video Editing: Advantage Lightroom
Yes, it's true that this is a comparison of photo workflow applications, but because every digital camera made within the last few years has video recording capability, the application you use to import from said camera should be able to do something with video files. Lightroom not only lets you import your DSLR's video clips, but you can also crop them and apply some adjustments to them as well. In Aperture, you can import video, but you can't do any editing with it.
The Verdict
By my lights, Lightroom comes out ahead in this head-to-head comparison, in the features that matter most. That's why it's PCMag's Editors' Choice photo workflow application. Of course, there's no hard and fast rule about which photo workflow application is best for you. It's a matter of what's important to you. If being able to do everything the app offers without switching modes and face tagging are important to you (and you're a Mac user), then Aperture is the way to go.
If a structured workflow, lens-specific corrections, and geometry correction are of importance to you, then Lightroom is for you. Of course, whichever of these you choose, you'll be doing yourself a favor over using an entry-level photo app: Each is a top-notch program offering excellent ways to import, organize, adjust, and output your digital photos.
Lightroom 5
It's worth noting that there are
several things each app does equally or nearly equally well—raw
conversion is one. Their ability to work with camera raw files lets you
get all of the image data from your camera's sensor, for a lot more
powerful corrections to white balance, exposure, and more. There's an
excellent explanation of the advantages you get by shooting to raw
format on Cambridge in Color.Ini perlu dicatat bahwa ada beberapa hal yang masing-masing aplikasi yang sama atau konversi hampir sama baiknya-mentah adalah satu. Kemampuan mereka untuk bekerja dengan file baku kamera memungkinkan Anda mendapatkan semua data gambar dari sensor kamera Anda, untuk koreksi jauh lebih kuat untuk white balance, exposure, dan banyak lagi. Ada penjelasan yang sangat baik dari keuntungan yang Anda dapatkan dengan menembak ke format mentah di Cambridge di Color.
Other similarities include both programs' ability to correct specific areas of a photo with local adjustment brushes, work with tone curves and histograms, perform cropping, lay out and send photo books out for printing, to create quality slideshows. They also both do a good job of mapping your geo-tagged photos and of directly uploading them to online services such as Flickr, SmugMug, and Facebook.
Kesamaan lainnya termasuk kemampuan kedua program 'untuk memperbaiki area-area tertentu dari foto dengan kuas penyesuaian lokal, bekerja dengan kurva nada dan histogram, melakukan cropping, lay out dan mengirim buku foto keluar untuk pencetakan, untuk menciptakan slideshow kualitas. Mereka juga sama-sama melakukan pekerjaan yang baik pemetaan geo-tagged foto dan Anda langsung meng-upload ke layanan online seperti Flickr, SmugMug, dan Facebook.
There's a whole site dedicated just to the topic of Aperture vs. Lightroom at aperturevslightroom.com, with regular features on different specific aspects of photo processing in the two applications. But here, I'll stick to presenting the major differences and strengths of each, to help you make the choice.
Ada keseluruhan situs yang didedikasikan hanya untuk topik Aperture vs Lightroom di aperturevslightroom.com, dengan fitur biasa pada aspek-aspek tertentu yang berbeda dari pengolahan foto dalam dua aplikasi. Tapi di sini, aku akan tetap menghadirkan perbedaan utama dan kekuatan masing-masing, untuk membantu Anda membuat pilihan.
Windows? Advantage Lightroom
If you're running a Mac, you have the choice that the title of this article posits: If you run a Windows System, it's a moot point, since Aperture is not available for that operating system. And there are reasons photographers might prefer to run Windows, with more upgrade options for storage and other system components. That's less of an issue if you're using an old-school Power Mac, but iMacs, Mac minis, an MacBooks are not internally upgradable.
And Windows users also have more photo workflow software applications to choose among: in addition to Lightroom, worthy options include ACDSee Pro 6, Corel AfterShot Pro, CyberLink PhotoDirectorC$99.99 at Amazon, and Serif PhotoPlus. But that's not to say you don't have other photo workflow options in OS X: ACDSee Pro 3 is available, and there's even the completely free, open-source darktable
Mac User Moving Up from iPhoto: Advantage Aperture
Since the release of Aperture 3.3, the process of importing photos from the entry-level photo app to Aperture has become virtually non-existent: Now iPhoto projects can be accessed directly from within Aperture. This is because both applications now use the same library. On a side note, if you use Apple's iCloud Photo Stream, these two apps are good choices, since support for that online photo storage service is built right into Aperture.
Mode-Based Interface: Your Call
One of the biggest differentiators between Aperture and Lightroom is all about modes and the lack thereof. All this means is that each step in your photo processing has a specific interface, or mode, for getting that particular task done. So along the top of the Lightroom interface are several buttons (you can choose a custom set of these if you like), including Library, Develop, Print, Slideshow, Map, and so on.
Some will prefer Aperture's modeless interface. This lets you use tabs on a control panel to switch among all of the programs.
Face Recognition: Advantage Aperture
The ability to organize your photos by the people whose visages appear in them can be a useful organizational tool for amateurs and pros alike. Bring up all photos showing Aunt Bessie with Cousin Cathy? Face recognition makes that a simple task compared with having to page through hundreds of images. For some reason, Lightroom still lacks this feature, though Adobe's consumer-level Photoshop Elements offering does include excellent face recognition.
Lens Profile Corrections: Advantage Lightroom
If the idea is to get your photo looking as close to the actual scene that was in front of your camera when you clicked the shutter, then one way to achieve that goal is to compensate for any known imperfections of the equipment you're using. Lightroom can automatically correct lens-introduced problems in barrel and pincushion distortion, vignetting (dark photo edges), and chromatic aberration, by adjusting the image based on the known characteristics of the lens you used. Adobe is aggressive about keeping these corrections up to date as new cameras and lenses are introduced.
Geometry Correction: Advantage Lightroom
Lightroom (and Photoshop CC) recently added a tool called Upright, which can fix perspective distortion that results from wide angle lenses or from non-direct camera angles. Aperture still is without any correction of geometry issues in photos.
Geotagging and Maps: Tie
Both applications do an excellent job of placing your geo-tagged photos on a map, though I slightly prefer Lightroom's mini-slideshow right on the map:
Lighting Fixes: Advantage Lightroom
While Aperture does offer a good selection of lighting adjustments, I was unable to get the kind of results Lightroom made possible, particularly when trying to bring out shadowed areas without blowing out the sky and other brights. Another ace in the hole for Lightroom is its unique Clarity adjustment, which can bring a dull photo to life without giving it the oversaturated look you often get with most programs' Vibrance adjustment. Clarity adds contrast only to midtones, for a punchier result. Aperture's Definitiion adjuster now mimics Clarity, though it doesn't offer as much range of adjustment.
Chromatic Aberration and Noise Reduction: Advantage Lightroom
Chromatic aberration is a lens distortion that shows up mostly on very high contrast areas towards the edges of a wide-angle image, yet it can crop up in other situations. Corrections tools in photo software has long been of dubious help: the color sliders the tools have offered often only allowed me to make worse distortions, rather than making those colored fringes go away. Aperture still offers this kind of hit-or-miss CA correction, but Lightroom has adopted the technique of the excellent DxO Optics Pro—just automatically fix CA based on the lens used. This technique removes the distortion with no fuss whatever.
Video Editing: Advantage Lightroom
Yes, it's true that this is a comparison of photo workflow applications, but because every digital camera made within the last few years has video recording capability, the application you use to import from said camera should be able to do something with video files. Lightroom not only lets you import your DSLR's video clips, but you can also crop them and apply some adjustments to them as well. In Aperture, you can import video, but you can't do any editing with it.
The Verdict
By my lights, Lightroom comes out ahead in this head-to-head comparison, in the features that matter most. That's why it's PCMag's Editors' Choice photo workflow application. Of course, there's no hard and fast rule about which photo workflow application is best for you. It's a matter of what's important to you. If being able to do everything the app offers without switching modes and face tagging are important to you (and you're a Mac user), then Aperture is the way to go.
If a structured workflow, lens-specific corrections, and geometry correction are of importance to you, then Lightroom is for you. Of course, whichever of these you choose, you'll be doing yourself a favor over using an entry-level photo app: Each is a top-notch program offering excellent ways to import, organize, adjust, and output your digital photos.
