I've been backlogged on uploading photos lately, partially because of lack of space for processing on my laptop HD. After letting it sit and reclaim space today so I could have more than 500MB free, and then later copying ~600 photos from last weekend from CF cards onto a drive, I decided it's time to find a better solution. I've been suffering with iPhoto since switching to OS X, and its ridiculous wanting to maintain a "Library" is rather annoying when dealing with a laptop. I know I have friends who are into photography, so thought it'd be worth asking on here. Has anyone used Aperture extensively? Is it worth the $99? Any other programs you have used, maybe without such high system requirements (as I'm guessing they mean hot and loud laptop)?
I'm guessing you have Adobe CS then? Have you ever used Lightroom?
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I've never used Aperture, but I use Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw extensively. I'm not sure how that workflow would differ much from Aperture. I open up a set of pictures in Camera Raw, fix white balance, curves, contrast, etc, and then batch process them all with those settings. I find that I rarely need to pull pictures into Photoshop, maybe 1 out of 100 pictures or so.