Exquisite Monoschrome Conversions in Aperture 2.1
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One of my favorite features in Aperture 2.1 is the flexibility and ease-of-use provided for monochrome conversions - taking original color digital files to fine art quality black and whites. The ability to apply custom filters and then adjust tonal ranges in each filter is designed with the professional photographer in mind.
Applying the monochrome conversion feature to already processed HDR images produces awe-inspiring results.
Yes, I still use Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Bridge for my HDR work (there’s already talk of a soon-to-be-released HDR plug-in for Aperture), but nearly all of my digital editing, organizing and post-processing work is now completed in Aperture.
My issue with Photoshop is that it tries to be too many things for too many people. Adobe somewhat addressed this issue, as well as answer the competitive challenge issued by Apple’s release of Aperture, with the release of Ligthroom, but by then I was already hooked on both the Mac platform and software. Apple’s software developers just seem more attuned to the shooting professional and quicker to adapt to the needs of these picky and demanding customers.
