After a long evaluation period, I’ve reached the point of a final decision between Apple’s Aperture and Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom. I’ve been leaning toward Aperture and have earnestly been adding photo’s and assigning keywords in the application. Recently I’ve been noticing a slowdown, primarily when searching. I don’t have all my photo’s loaded and it’s already becoming frustrating.
My experiences and frustrations were confirmed when I found the post below describing much the same situation.
Apple’s Aperture vs Adobe Lightroom: by ovidiu (Actionscript Hero):
“To manage my ever expanding collection of pictures, about 4 months ago I bought Apple’s Aperture 1.5. At that time I compared it with Adobe’s Lightroom, which was still in beta. Aperture felt a lot more solid with respect to features, especially quick adjustments and book printing options. Lightroom seemed very promising, very fast but kind of short of editing features. In the end, I bought Aperture in the hope the speed will not be an issue on my high end MacPro 3GHz four-core system with 4GB of RAM.Well, I soon grew disappointed. My photo gallery has about 30,000 shots in it. The pictures occupy some 360Gb of my hard drive.”
But the biggest problem I found was only after I started assigning keywords to pictures. …Aperture becomes increasingly slow as you keep adding keywords and pictures to your projects. At the current moment, doing any search will totally bog down my computer to the point it becomes unusable.
I was so disgusted by this that I went back to Adobe Lightroom, now a full 1.0 release.
So, unless I discover a major deal breaker in the next couple of days I’m going to start importing and working out my workflow with Lightroom. I’m giving up some features I really liked in Aperture in the pursuit of overall usability.
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