If you ’re a picture taking pro ( or need to be just like one ) , both Apple and Adobe are contend for the left side of your mind . And each of them test to stake out unexampled ground in that competitor this week . On Monday , Apple announced an update to Aperture , its photo direction software . Version 1.5 , which will be uncommitted as a destitute download later this week to all Aperture users , was announced at the annualPhotokina confabfor photographer in Germany .
Aperture 1.5 promise some features that user have been requesting : increased tractableness in where you store images and a plug - in facility that gives you fresh option for sharing , stack away , printing process , publication , and even sell your pictures . And it work with a expectant number of cameras than did prior versions .
An interesting nerveless prospect is being able to graze your Aperture library — including both on-line and offline photograph — with the iLife or iWork ’ 06 media web web browser so you could continue your work in iWeb or Keynote , for deterrent example . Theoretically , you could have imported the images you want to use into iPhoto , but the more tractability the better — specially if you ’re really using Photoshop and Bridge as contradict to iPhoto to cut your images . At the same time Apple was polishing up Aperture , Adobe was mess around with its own workflow direction tool , Lightroom , which has been rechristened Photoshop Lightroom . The distributor point , I ’m guessing , is to verify that people connect this photo direction app with Adobe ’s flagship image editor in chief . That would certainly make sense . After all , Photoshop is practically ubiquitous as an look-alike editor program — either in its pro form or as Elements — and tying it into Lightroom perpetuate the Adobe zeitgeist over the image - edit universe . But Lightroom is going to be free after than in the beginning expected . Announced at the beginning of the year , the software was in the beginning targeted for a November spillage . That schedule release has been pushed back to the “ offset ” of next year — at least until Feb. 28 , 2007 , when the just - released genus Beta expires . That makes me wonder whether it might be deserving it for Adobe to simply hold off releasing Lightroom until it is ready to launch the third variant of Creative Suite , which is schedule for a Spring 2007 spill , or perhaps even include Lightroom as part of CS3 .
It ’s gratifying to see some existent competition in the photo software realm . If you already bought Aperture , you ’ll be happy that Apple has been so concerned about revising this new app . If you ’re hanging onto your old PowerPC until CS3 arrives , and you ’ve been wait Lightroom because of its close relationship with Photoshop , the prospect for an even tighter desegregation with Adobe ’s range editor program seems inevitable — and supporting .
