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I've been making feature films since the 80's and thought Adobe Creative Suite would help me make my own films but there lack of glossary in their PP 1.5 manual (which I was advised to toss out as it it useless) and expect a year long education before you get anything edited.
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Aperture makes makes opening and comparing 250 large files in an hour doable. Rather than thinking of it as iPhoto on steroids, it is closer to say it is CS 2's Adobe Brdige on steroids, plus a bunch of extras . . . The interface is related to Apple's other pro applications like Soundtrack or Final Cut. iPhoto is an application for consumer level digital photography. Adobe has another program (Light Table) in late stage beta testing that looks like it will go toe to toe with Aperture. Aperture is also not a full digital asset management program, but if you are only working in photography, with some tweaks to your work flow and archiving system, you probably won't need one. Bridge--for photography--also is not needed.

About the file structure . . . The Aperture Library is the correlary to old-school negatives. This is one reason the file structure fixed and any adjustments are not made to the imported files. If you screw up your edits, you still have the original files. When I have a really good image (I am principally an art photographer), I may end up with five or six different Photoshop versions for different print sizes, printers, compositing and the like. Aperture (when I really get it integrated into my workflow) should greatly reduce the number of versions of files that I have, and imposes a structure helpful in keeping track and searching through files. When I have "lost" a file from a couple of years back, I have usually been able to find it with a couple of quick Boolean searches, without resorting to increasingly lengthy and bizarre file naming and path (folder) structures. Aperture really lived up to Apple's claims in this regards. Much better than Adobe's Bridge on this. Much, much, much better.

Aperture not allowing changes to the raw image files is similar to using an "Adjustment Layer" you toggle on and off on a Photoshop file. Limiting the types of file structure in the Aperture Library allowed the programmer magicians to make the thing work. Frankly, when looking at the advertisements Apple had, I wondered how much of this was hype . . . by forcing a specifc file sturcture in the library (aka database of raw images) the Apple guys were able to come up with a way to rapidly push around lots of pixels in and out of memory and on to and around the screen, with incredible speeds. If you are not working with lots of big files (if for example, you can use iPhoto without the program crashing), Aperture is not for you, it would be a waste of your time to learn the program (not trivial) and money.

About the system requirements: The program is hardware dependent. I did not imagine my one year old G5 dual processor tower with lots of memory, would have a problem running the program. However, I had to buy a new $300 graphics card, something I figured I didn't really need since I don't play lots of real time animated computer games. Or at least I thought I would be able to check the program out before I decided if it was worth it to buy a new graphics card. Forget it, you need one of the new graphics cards listed: the program will not even start up with an card that is two years old. Apple does not sell (or at least not many) graphics cards, except for the ones that come as original equipment with a Mac, so they have no vested interest in artificially pushing folks to buy new cards (from other manufacturers). Aperture apparently pushes lots and lots of tasks on to the graphics card in order to make all the magic work. Photoshop does not do this, so in that sense (in terms of managing your image files by inspecting them), Aperture makes much more efficient use of the latest and greatest equipment (than Adobe Bridge).

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Those are the good things, here are the things that are not quite there yet:
1) The Camera Raw importing function does not process quite as nicely as the Adobe Camera Raw. A really noisy low light image may not come out quite as nicely, so you might have to fix it a bit more using Photoshop. (It is only on the odd shots where this shows up, and they tend to be the kinds of shots where you almost always need to go use Photoshop anyway to clean up the noise or other oddities);
2) The basic set of Curves functions are pretty standard these days, Aperture should have 'em.
3) Photoshop's Camera Raw has a couple of additional importing function that Aperture does not have. There is only one I ever use though is the vignetting sliders. It is a quick way to "burn the corners" of your photographs and you can preview the effect before applying it. Burning the corners is often such an easy and good adjustment, this would be nice to have; and
4) Aperture should get with the standard for meta data. You might want to look at a file 20 years from now, with whatever program is around, so it will need to read the standard meta data (data about the image (time taken, date, size, photographer, equipment, etc. etc.) appropriately.
5) The integration with Photoshop (or some other standard editor) could be/should be, one key stroke.

A minor comment about the interface. Yep, I agree, I am kind of tired of the titanum-esque colors and current fonts on all of the pro applications. The functionality is elegant and powerful though. That it is standard across Apple Pro applications is a basic Apple design requirement, and has been since the LISA. Some of you whipersnappers don't remember the old days where every single program had a different interface for everything (like saving or printing). Apple upped the ante and by controlling the basic hardware and software, forced design standards on third parties that allow everyone (now) to open just about any program on any computer or operating system, and be able to find your way around. With the Pro applications, Apple has another level of standardization on the interface that speeds up the learning curve. What it is not is a Photoshop interface. At first I was disappointed in this since I've spent so many years learning Photoshop, but Aperture interface works better for what Aperture does (than trying to make it look on the surface like Photoshop).

Overall: I think this program will be stupendous for pros (or photo students) to work along with Photoshop, once a few fairly minor things are corrected. It is a professional program aimed at people who make their living with photography (or part of it), and is priced as such, not as a consumer product. (It is fun though, so I imagine many consumers will want to pay in learning curve time and money for it, but this will be the exception rather than the rule.) It will save me lots of time once I have fully integrated it into my work flow. It does have a significant learning curve. I only gave it four stars because of the minor issues I (and others) have identified; which I hope Apple will fix in the next major release (perhaps Aperture 1.5).Get more detail about Apple Aperture 1.0 (Mac DVD) [Old Version].

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I put a con first, then the review, as I believe buyers need to be very aware of this:

CON:
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Review:

I started with MediaStudio Pro 5, and now am using version 8 (version 8 for about the last 2 1/2 years). It is pretty powerful for an upper end consumer package. You can do blue screens (actually any color), composites, etc.. The interface is simple once you spend a couple hours with it. If Ulead would continue spending time developing this product it could become a very nice piece of software. They however are not continuing development as far as I can see.

I am taking a video class at the University. In this class I am using Final Cut Pro (a professional grade product). Making the transition to Final Cut was pretty easy, as the interface is similar enough. Final Cut Pro however is a MUCH nicer product, supporting more keyboard shortcuts, more stable software, bigger video windows when applying effects, more tools, better audio tools, .....{the list goes on to more than I know}. Additionally, Final Cut has not crashed on me once yet! But, Final Cut Pro is $1000 and runs only on Mac.

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- Multiple tracks for video and audio (starts with 7, and can add more)
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- Able to do color key (blue screen)
- Able to do composites
- Able to do proxy editing (i.e. work on lower resolution footage to increase performance while editing, then program uses high resolution footage when doing the final render.)
- Compresses to many formats.
- Imports many formats

Cons:
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- ** No AVCHD support: Even though they upgraded their lower line product, the company has not updated their more powerful, more expensive product, MediaStudio Pro. The company clearly does not care about the success of this product. I recommend against buying for this simple reason.

- Not compatible with Windows Vista (Not that I care about Windows Vista, but it is yet another sign that Ulead has no intention of supporting this product).

- No DVD burning software included.
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The 3d paint, however, is slow, and the object handling is buggy.
If Extended's 3d object handling is of interest to you, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. You can rough sketch in any 3d modeller that supports object/UV painting, and touch it up with CS4 standard or GIMP for that matter.

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For some background, I purchased an 8-core Mac Pro specifically to work with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection [Mac], and have been an early adopter for the various suites since about the time the first Creative Suite was released. For CS4, the first release felt a little too early, but the update has solved most issues I've had with small bugs and performance lags. With the (now) current updates, Photoshop CS4 has been fantastic.

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"If the software has already been registered and the license holder cannot provide you with a transfer of ownership, the transfer is illegal, and you will not be able to legally use or register the software"

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Because seller "Ameliaa21" failed to provide a transfer of License, Adobe considered this sale illegal. The software works and updated as normal but I have never been able to successfully register this product with Adobe. The ability to upgrade this version to CS4 or any other version in the future will be not possible. According to Adobe, the version that I bought from seller "Ameliaa21" had already been properly registered and upgraded to Photoshop CS4.Get more detail about Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended [OLD VERSION].

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PhotoStudio 6 offers intelligent, yet easy-to-use tools such as Face Beautify, Magic-Cut, and Magic-Film along with the editing tools that you have come to love in PhotoStudio. Version 6.0 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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I am loathe to pay for access to more templates... but probably will
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I've never encountered a product that is as easy to use as this one.
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it's really too bad they gave up on it and now is only usable on win 95/98Get more detail about LivePix 2.0 Deluxe.

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I was hesitant about this software because there's not much about it online. I brought a camera on my vacation that is capable of taking photos at 10 frames per second, so I used it to take about 150 landscape photos, each of 8-10 separate frames. After discovering that I no longer had a copy of adobe photoshop, and that gimp wanted me to install python support for an external plugin, I bought this software hoping for an easy solution. And it was easy, though time consuming. The user interface is very simple- so much so that I didn't need to read any instructions, just started constructing panorama photos. For 99% of my photos it worked great, only the shots with moving people had some trouble, and that was sometimes fixable using the tools. Constructing the panoramas is a little time consuming, probably 2 or 3 minutes per panorama photo, with no way to automate multiple photos. But it works well.Get more detail about Arcsoft Panorama Maker 3.

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Premiere Pro 7 has quite a few problems, which is a pain in the but.
1: Import video problems. It does NOT support as many video types as I like. I do not use exotic videos, but come on, .mp4 .avi is NOT supported, regardless what is in the .avi file, or the fact I can change the extension of the .mp4 to .mpg and it works fine.
2: Import audio problems. It clips and distorts most audio types I use including .mp3's . Only file type it does not mess up is .wav
3: Export video problems. No matter how I export it, compressed or not, it seems it never exports the same quality as the imported videos I use to make the clip. It always overexposes or under exposes them . Some times it pixilates and blurs the video so bad, it's unusable.
4: Export video's audio. The audio in exported videos seems amplified greatly from what I hear in the editing.
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I purchased this software for my family and it has turned out to be one of the best purchases I have ever made. The realism in the effects is unreal, it's as if you are actually painting on paper. You mix colors like you would with a regular paint pallete, and as you paint your color fades when your paint is running out just like in real life. There are also plenty of other mediums as well from crayons to charcoal and much more. It also has plenty of images at your disposal to help with projects, or to turn into animations.

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PF3 is a great piece of software for graphics editing on a very tight budget. It has all the tools you NEED without a whole lot of extras you don't. It's also a great program for the handful of retrofolks who still use Win3.1 who want a great graphics editor.

However, PF3 doesn't install correctly on WinXP since some DLL's clash with Internet Explorer on that platform. The GIF function is also limited to saving GIF87 graphics. I usually get around that problem by using CompuShow 2000 to convert the graphics from .PCX/.BMP to .GIF or other formats.

If you want a version of PF which DOES work with WinXP flawlessly I highly recommend searching for PhotoFinish 4. Alas, due to UNISYS, PF4 can only READ .GIF files. Search the 'net my friends! I still recommend PF despite its rough edges.

--dr.bomb

P.S. I picked up my copy of PF3 as part of an "Art Bonus Pack" CD-ROM distributed by SoftKey. Nice package which also includes the full manuals in .WRI format and a copy of PC Painbrush 2.0 for Windows. Oh yeah, and TONS of photos to eat up the CD-ROM's remaining diskspace. ;->
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I am desperately trying to become a better photographer and know how to organize, fix, and use my photos in my website. I have had several different photo imaging programs and am still searching for one that will let me put a shadow on the edges of a photo..
This program has the closest I have come to what I'm trying to do, but I'm still working with it..
Feel comfident in purchasing this program.. It is very good, clear instructions..
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