Shoot. Me.
So I work in photography for BYU Magazine and law school publications and the university websites and stuff. I edit through the photos and put the good ones onto iView so that anyone in our network--specifically the designers--can see them, choose one, and let me know which one(s) they want in high-res form for their respective projects.When I started working here in January the department had decided to try out Aperture, a new photo software for Mac computers, instead of using the typical combination of Photoshop and Bridge. My workflow went something like this:
Import the photos into Aperture from the digital card -- Watch it for an hour because importing into Aperture takes ridiculous amounts of time and slows down the computer so you cannot be productive in the meantime -- Edit through them -- Export them back out of Aperture onto one of the regular hard drives -- Watch it for another hour -- Convert the photos to low-res in Photoshop ridiculously fast -- put into iView. All together about 3 hours depending on the amount of pictures.
I finally convinced them that the workflow was a little on the insane side--Aperture added about three steps, adding up to between two and three hours of my day that could be spent doing more productive things than importing then exporting. So we went back to Bridge and Photoshop and my workflow went something like this:
Import the photos onto the hard drive from the digital card -- Edit through them -- Convert to low-res in Photoshop --Put into iView. All told, about 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the amount of pictures.
So I spent over a week exporting photos out of Aperture onto our regular hard drive to be used in Bridge.
Today, my boss--my exaperating boss--says, "I'm liking Aperture more and more. It has that magnifying glass." What? A magnifying glass? That's why you like Aperture?! I just looked at him. I didn't want to have to explain that it is much easier for him to pull the whole lot of photos over into Photoshop (takes roughly five seconds - select all, drag, it automatically opens with a little screen that you can scroll through and it does all the things that Aperture does) than it is for me to import and export continuously for no good reason other than his liking of the shift+ accent grave function that provides you with a magnifying glass.
It would take over 2 weeks to import everything back into Aperture. And then the ridiculously long workflow begins again.
Like I said, Shoot. Me.
posted by Sara @ 3:47 PM
