<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks for<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>your presentation last might.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I learned a lot about what Aperture is and is<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>not.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I had to leave the meeting early to take one of my kids to dance class, which was too bad because I was still trying to get a feel for what Aperture was used for. It startled me to hear that Photoshop Elements is better at actually editing photos, etc. Am I correct in my impression that it is valuable mostly as a better way to manage large photo libraries?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I enjoyed the perspective of using some of the available tools for metadata to make it easier to sort and find pictures. My own photo library (in iPhoto) is incoherent aside from the basic date of import. I don't have the energy to go back through six years of digital photos, but really should start organizing the new stuff better.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Early in the talk you mentioned how important it is to calibrate the monitor so the colors display correctly. You mentioned it can take 20 minutes or so. When I just used the Calibrate function in System Prefs it didn't take any time at all -- are you doing something more advanced?</DIV></BODY></HTML>