Hello,
I’m using Aperture to manage and edit photos of my company’s line of products and so far, so good. The only problem is that, currently, all of the uploading, editing and exporting is done by several people on a single Mac. Because of the physical location of the Mac with Aperture (Studio space using Macs) and the fact that the metadata editing is done by the Sales team (using PCs), it became inconvenient as they need to go to a different room to do it.
The current workflow is this:
- Uploading of a photoshoot to Aperture (person A)
- Pre-selection, colour correction, cropping (A)
- Moving photos to relevant folders and projects (A, B or C)
- Highlighting shots for publishing (A, B or C)
- Metadata editing, keywords, captions (B or C)
- Exporting print and web quality versions (A, B or C)
- Using/sharing/uploading photos anywhere as needed (A, B, C, D … Z)
As we are now upgrading our internal network and servers, I was wondering if I could streamline the workflow to allow library management, metadata editing and exporting/sharing of photos anywhere in our company, on either a Mac or a PC?
Am I right it sounds like Lightroom? What other options do I have?
Thanks for all your suggestions.
Alex