Aperture
Interesting, Apple are looking to compete head on with Adobe's Photoshop. Having looked at the demo, it looks pretty good. Photoshop is a fantastic photo editing package, but it is hugely let down by the clunky way in which it handles RAW files, the format I and most photographers with digital SLRs shoot in. If you take a picture with a digital camera in JPEG format, the camera has to make decision about how to convert the data from the image sensor into a picture, and it then compresses the result to your memory card. With the RAW format, the camera doesn't do any of that, the file format is essentially just a dump of the sensor data. It is therefore a non-destructive file format. Deciding how to process the image, e.g. decisions about brightness, sharpness and colour balance, are left up to you to resolve.Adobe's approach to RAW files is to retrofit an import process to get them into the existing editing environment. What this means is that you have one screen where you make your initial adjustments to the RAW file, and then fine tune the image in the proper Photoshop environment. It is a flawed process, but you can't really fault Adobe for going down that route, RAW files are new, and no doubt later versions will improve the process.
Apple are starting out with a blank canvas, are so can tackle the issue of how to work with RAW files directly, rather than how to convert them to a different format, and it looks like they've done a good job of that. I don't know why I'm typing this. To the best of my knowledge, nobody that reads this blog uses RAW files, so it's all a bit of waste of time really, I doubt anyone has read this far. I wish I'd thought of that before I started writing, I would have saved 10 minutes of my life. Oh well.
9 Comments:
I've read this far, and whilst you are quite right, I don't use RAW files, it was still a vaguely interesting post. Never feel bad about posting to your own blog, or that it was a waste of time - it is your blog to express yourself on. If some people don't read it, so what, so other people might.
I also read this far but I admit that my eyes did boggle a bit.
I pushed on through tho, seeing as it's you x
I like this kind of info.
Posts like this suck. We want more boring stereotypical blog posts and pictures of cats I tell you!!!
more cats, more cats!
CATS! CATS!
All-bloody-right, I promise that on Tuesday when I'm back from that London, I'll do a cat post.
Its Tuesday......
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