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I’ve run into my first Apple application failure. I really like Aperture 2. I’ve spent a fair amount of time moving my photographs into it. I didn’t even try Adobe Lightroom 2 because I liked Aperture 2′s UI so much after trying it. I rushed out and bought it, and life was good – life was good in Leopard. Well, it wasn’t that good actually. I discovered a memory leak with Nikon RAW images. I say discovered because, from what I recall now, various other people discovered it well before me and it still was not fixed yet. Go /var/log/system.log file! At least that was something I could work around.

When the Leopard of a snowy nature (as someone asked me about it once) came out, I had it installed the next day. Aperture 2.1.4 is supposed to work in Snow Leopard. It does, but it’s slow when going full screen. I put in a bug report about that. Then I realized that I could no longer make adjustments to large grayscale TIFF files! The image never fully loads (color files are fine, but again – way too slow). This was not a problem in Leopard. I put in a bug report about that and questioned the quality control here. It’s like Aperture 2 is some kind of play thing and not a flagship product. This makes me question other products, like Final Cut. What if I were to move to that someday and have the same issues? I realize that Snow Leopard is new, but Aperture 2 has been updated to run in it. We are at 10.6.2 here people. What’s the problem? You guys fix that memory leak yet?

All right, I’ve had enough. I downloaded Adobe Lightroom 2, and guess what? It’s awesome. It works with my large grayscale TIFF files. It is not slow. Adobe now has my money, when I buy it anyway – and I am not sure if Apple fixing this before my 30 day trial ends will make a difference. I just spent hours correcting some photograph TIFF scans I mad previously fixed in Aperture 2.

Apple makes a great OS, and all of their other applications work fine. Aperture 2 sucks in my experience. It even ended up wasting a ton of my time already. What a huge disappointment.