Pixave An Aperture Replacement?

I just purchased it to test it out. Pretty cheap at $15 USD. The promo makes it look awesome. Comments are very positive. Wondering if it will blow Apple's Photos out of the water, for those of us who hate Lightroom?

Ben ! many thanks for the tip, It looks fantastic and the price then .... plus the video has the same introductory scene of my last work
Pielle

Thanks Ben
Had not heard of Pixave. Just bought it. Looks strong for the file management aspects; collections, tags, etc… and the rest seem like great "Extras". Mark up, GIFs, screen capture, web downloads, export parameters… Looks like good stuff.
At $15.00USD worth a try.
Use Pixelmator mostly for editing now. Lacks organizing photo storage.
Still use Aperture.
This looks interesting being able to organize cross app/formats. Possible pre/post ingest tagging for FCPX?
Haven't played with it as it just finished downloading.
How you liking it?
Thanks for posting
Greg

Looks intriguing ... and no one would love to dump Lightroom (and Adobe products in general) more than I would.

The DAM capabilities look ok ... but it would still take at least three apps to replace the more convenient and efficient workflow I can accomplish using Lightroom (and formerly Aperture).

I need more than Digital Asset Management. I need a convenient workflow from ingest to delivery. Lightroom handles the RAW image processing pipeline parametrically, storing instructions for processing to be applies only if and when the images are exported or printed. Plus, when I duplicate an image within Lightroom, it merely creates a new set of those parametric instructions, not a completely new derivative image file. (Aperture did this as well). This saves me gobs of disk space and tens of thousands of additional image files per year. With Lightroom, I don't have to back up, maintain or houseclean/delete all that additional data after client delivery. Even with the low cost of storage and backup automation, in this case, less is definitely more.

Not to mention the very customizable and configurable Export plugins that can be utilized within Lightroom. Currently I can export 1 or a 1,000 (or more) images directly to my online shopping cart or any Wordpress blog media library I have access to without creating a derivative file and saving it locally.

For me, I grudgingly stick with Lightroom out of workflow necessity. I sure wish someone would offer a singular package to compete with Adobe. Which was why I was utterly crushed when Apple dropped development of Aperture. I thought they surely would have offered an alternative by now.