Aperture rocks
Lately, I’ve started taking a lot more photos than I used to. It’s great fun and the more photos you take, the more you learn. However, sifting through all those photos can be a real chore.
Then I got a Mac, which in its own right made handling photos easier and iPhoto made a difference too, but the fundamental process of comparing, selecting and discarding photos remained time-consuming and left me with decisions I didn’t want to make:
“Was that shot really the best of the set?”
Aperture changed that. Now I can quickly group photos and make a single selection from the stack; and the process is undoable: I don’t have to delete the candidates.
Throw in version management, white balance editing and RAW capabilities and suddenly, post-processing takes a fraction of my precious time and is much more fun; without un-reversable decisions to be made!
That’s how desktop software should be developed: Find the basic user work-flow and design relentlessly until streamlined.