Apple’s Aperture: Adobe Bridge Rival, not Photoshop Killer

New high-end photo-processing sofware from Apple highlights specific workflow problems for pro photogs; may herald new era of innovation, says writer When Apple Computer debuted its new high-end photographic management software Apertureâ„¢, conventional wisdom, noting functional similarities between it and Adobe’s Photoshopâ„¢, seemed to assume that Apple was ramping up to deliver a “Photoshop Killer”. (…)

New high-end photo-processing sofware from Apple highlights specific workflow problems for pro photogs; may herald new era of innovation, says writer

When Apple Computer debuted its new high-end photographic management software Apertureâ„¢, conventional wisdom, noting functional similarities between it and Adobe’s Photoshopâ„¢, seemed to assume that Apple was ramping up to deliver a “Photoshop Killer”.

A different view, taken by Maccentral.com writer Jim Dalrymple, holds that as time has passed it has become more likely that Aperture is styled as a rival to Bridgeâ„¢, Adobe’s file-browsing stand-alone front end to the Creative Suite 2. He explains himself in full at this artcle locaed at CreativePro.com here, quoting Kevin Connor, Adobe’s director of digital imaging project management, as saying:

In the beginning you saw a few stories out there that said Aperture was a Photoshop killer. The customers were pretty quick to say, ‘No, this isn’t a Photoshop killer, but it is an alternative to Bridge and Camera RAW.’ That’s a pretty accurate way to look at it. [Aperture] is an alternative to Bridge and Camera RAW, but if you use any of those, you still need Photoshop.

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  1. Kevin’s take on the situation rings true. Photoshop does a lot more than Aperture, but Aperture may be a substitute for Bridge and certain aspects of Photoshop, such as the web photo gallery and picture packages.

    My original article on Aperture’s release is here:

    http://designorati.c...or-pro-photo-market/

    And my new article on Photoshop’s evolution in the face of Aperture and new image tools in the new Quark and CS3, is here:

    http://designorati.c...photoshop-unleashed/

    Jeremy Schultz
    DESIGNORATI
    02 December 2005

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