This page may be of keen interest to Mac users.
Notably, Lightroom shows a very nice performance gain in 64-bit mode.
But Aperture is really stunningly better.
From Lloyd's conclusion: "Performance gains of up to 30% were observed, making Snow Leopard by far the best value for the money in a long, long time. At about $25, you won’t find a more compelling upgrade of any kind, anywhere."
The full review starts here.
Mike
There is a bug that comes with Lightroom in 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard. Asking Lightroom to pass a file to Photoshop CS4 for editing launches Photoshop, but does not send the file. I've been advised by Adobe to switch Lightroom back to 32-bit mode if I want to edit Lightroom files in Photoshop.
Posted by: Dave Kosiur | Friday, 09 October 2009 at 07:43 PM
The performance gains of Snow Leopard are diminished for me as the retouching tool in Aperture (I use version 2.1.4) no longer works for black and white image files!
Posted by: Iain Dawson | Saturday, 10 October 2009 at 01:07 AM
Wonder why Lloyd didn't test either app when doing heavy lifting such as performing an edit or updating jpeg previews.
Posted by: David | Saturday, 10 October 2009 at 10:29 AM
@dave there was a similar bug in lightroom 2.4 you could work round it by manually adding the photoshop executable as an external editing program. So on a PC I'd have 2 options one for Photoshop CS3 (the automatic one) and for photoshop.exe. Using photoshop.exe worked round the bug. Hope that helps!
Posted by: edhombe | Saturday, 10 October 2009 at 12:52 PM
Hi All,
I'd heard there was a problem with Snow Leopard and Epson printers. I lost nearly a week (not being able to print) once before when upgrading, so have been holding off until the problem was sorted out. I have an R2400. Does anyone know anymore about this?
Posted by: MBS | Saturday, 10 October 2009 at 01:53 PM
Dave - are you using Spaces? I've found that doing so can sometimes mask a newly opened window - jumping between programs a second time (as by using control-tab) can sometimes make it appear.
Posted by: Rana | Saturday, 10 October 2009 at 06:55 PM
Thanks for the comments. (No, I am not using Spaces.) Although Adobe acknowledged the bug, setting up CS4 as an external editor, as suggested by edhombe, does work in transferring the file.
Plus, now that I've followed edhombe's suggestion, I find that the original Lightroom command to edit in CS4 works correctly, i.e., the proper file is opened in CS4 from the 64-bit version of Lightroom. Go figure!
At any rate, all is now well in the 64-bit world of Snow Leopard.
Posted by: Dave Kosiur | Monday, 12 October 2009 at 12:05 PM
The albatross pictures almost made me cry. Yet this a mere nano print of the sum total of some
appalling human behaviour. We have all played a part in the suffering of these magnificent birds. Ask not what the Planet can do for you....
Dennis F
Posted by: Dennis Fairclough | Monday, 19 October 2009 at 08:07 PM