Making The Move To OS X
Posted by Stu @ 11:57 AM, Sat 23 Dec 06
Filed under: Music, Photography
3 Comments
Like many before me, I’ve swapped my Dell Inspiron laptop with a nice shiny MacBook Pro. For the money, they’re the best Intel-based laptops around - and I must say that the reviews you may have read online do not do them justice.
The next step is to switch all my photography and music apps over from Windows. Music was easy enough - Logic Express will do me just fine. I wish I’d picked up a copy of the Rhythm Jam Pack at the time, but I can pop into Cardiff next week and put that right.
Photography … that’s a bit more of a challenge. I’ve started playing with the Lightroom beta, and whilst I can see the attraction, there’s a couple of tricks I rely on in Photoshop that I haven’t figured out how to reproduce in Lightroom yet. I don’t want to buy Photoshop until CS3 is out, so for now I might be better off buying a copy of Photoshop Elements, and upgrading to CS3 if I feel the need next year.
The other thing I need to do over the Christmas holidays is either upgrade or replace b2evo, the blogging engine I’ve been using this past year. Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t get on with the admin interface, and Firefox continues to be too much of a memory hog for me to want to stick with it as my main browser.
Just in case anyone is reading this and getting worried that I’ll be completely turning my back on Linux … that isn’t going to happen. Linux on the desktop has always been my preferred development platform, and that isn’t going to change. All I’m doing is switching my preferred creative platform from Windows XP to Mac OS X.
3 Comments
December 28th, 2006 at 12:26 am
How about taking a look at apple’s very own Aperture, it’s what i use for my photo storage and simple manipulation. I believe there’s a 30 day trial which is probably worth a look at.
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
That’s a good idea. I hadn’t thought of it - Aperture has a reputation for not being the best tool for woring with RAW images.
I’ll find the 30 day trial and have a play.
Many thanks,
Stu
January 12th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
[...] My initial impression of Lightroom was fantastic (using it to process Kristi’s photos from the National Museum of Wales in the museum’s coffee shop the same morning), and if it had been onsale via electronic download, I would probably have parted with my cash there and then. But, the more I think about what I need to help improve my enjoyment of photography, there’s just a little bit of doubt in my mind over Lightroom right now. When Colin suggested I take a look at Apple’s Aperture, the 30-day trial eventually found its way onto my MBP. [...]
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