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Aperture 3, Apple's prosumer photo manipulation and management tool, is unleashed!
With the tag line 'Taking photos. Further.' -- complete with punchy period and Web 2.0 reflection! -- this new release definitely pushes the envelope on sub-$200 'prosumer' software. If you got a new digital camera this Christmas and you're looking to take your photos further, Aperture 3 is aimed at you.
Aperture, if you're new to Mac, is iPhoto's big brother. It's not quite Photoshop, but then it's a damn sight more feature-complete than MS Paint, too. Aperture 3 is almost everything you need to tweak and organize photos. Along with the usual stuff like messing with the white balance, applying filters and creating albums, there's a lot of new, neat features too. Face recongition and geotagging (and the organization thereof) are the two main 'contemporary' additions, while some nice new brushes are great for touching up photos. It's well worth hitting up Apple's page for a complete list of the new features in Aperture 3, because there are a lot.
The only bad news is that the full version costs $200 (the upgrade is $99). Still, if you've invested in a good digital camera, and you own a Mac, Aperture 3 will be a sound investment.
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Subscribe to commentsWilliamFeb 10th 2010 12:22PM
"Along with the usual stuff like messing with the white balance, applying filters and creating albums, there's a lot of new, neat features too. Face recongition and geotagging (and the organization thereof) are the two main 'contemporary' additions, while some nice new brushes are great for touching up photos."
Aren't all those features [except perhaps the brushes] in iPhoto already? I it might be nice to know what about Aperture 3 makes it worth $120 more than iPhoto '09.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 10th 2010 12:28PM
Well, have a look at the complete feature list :)
I'm sure, if anything, Aperture 3 is more SHINY, and thus appealing to Apple users...
cookiesFeb 10th 2010 4:30PM
iPhoto editing tools aren't non-destructive like Aperture (and Lightroom). Instead it creates a "modified" jpeg, and applies changes to that duplicate file, effectively (almost) doubling the size of your iPhoto library.
Also I found that iPhoto ('09) uses way more system resources than Aperture (2.x) does on the same library (1k jpeg and 3k raw images).
Aperture's organizing tools are much better than iPhoto (and Lightroom imo) too.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 10th 2010 7:45PM
Thanks for the info :)
Yeah, the organization side of it looks really impressive!