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Apple’s Aperture: Adobe Bridge Rival, not Photoshop Killer
By Samuel John Klein On 30th November 2005 @ 21:27 In Graphic Design, News | 1 Comment
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 [1] Aperture™, conventional wisdom, noting functional similarities between it and Adobe’s Photoshop™, 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 Bridge™, Adobe’s file-browsing stand-alone front end to the Creative Suite 2. [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] Aperture™: http://www.apple.com/aperture/
[2] He explains himself in full at this artcle locaed at CreativePro.com here: http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/23679.html
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