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April 2010
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The combination of Aperture and iPhoto is just about all that the average photographer could want. Input is not restricted to RAW files – it handles all formats produced by digital cameras. The interface is attractive and the free pdf user manual is brill
Unified library formats
Some improved tools
New Auto Enhance tool
The editors didn't like
Cataloguing
Naming and generally managing files is not intuitive. You do need the manual to get the best out of the program. The web gallery construction module is quite basic compared with either Lightroom or Adobe Bridge but it can be improved with thi
Simple, clean interface. Excellent photo-organization tools, including Places and Faces (geo-tagging). Excellent camera raw import. Brush-on adjustments with edge detection. Tethering.
Resource intensive. No history window to see previous actions. No geometry correction. No Windows version.
With face recognition for organizing people pictures, smart geo-tagging, a rich plug-in ecosystem, and all the adjustment and nondestructive versioning and organizational tools you find in Lightroom, Aperture is a serious contender for the pro photogra...
New editing tools, including Brushes, let photographers do everything within Aperture. Places feature displays images on maps and lets you search by location. Many useful updates and additions. Takes advantage of 64-bit hardware. Overhauled slideshow tool works with video.
Brief slowdown can sometimes happen even on powerful Macs. Faces feature can also be sluggish.
With these great new editing tools, many pros won’t need to open Photoshop. And intermediate users will be able to do what they want without getting lost in the deep feature set--and can learn new photo-editing techniques without feeling intimidated.A...
Aperture is still a great program, in my opinion, and the budding photographer would be a lot better off with this than with iPhoto if they’re planning on doing anything more than collecting snapshots. I’ve gotten used to Aperture’s workflow and they ...
Quick Brushes; new adjustments such as curves; brushing in adjustments; better RAW processing.
Requires a fast computer to run optimally; Faces can bog down the system; some users have reported troubling bugs; inability to group brushed-in adjustments.
Aperture 3 adds new features that will impress both amateurs and professionals, and make image organization, editing, and sharing easier. But as is the case with software aimed primarily at pro users, Aperture 3 takes a powerful computer to get the mo...
Abstract: Aperture 3 is a workflow tool for amateurs and professional photographers. It allows them to organize images, retouch and enhance images, share images with others, and manage the photo printing process. That's quite an undertaking, but after working wi...
Abstract: Apple Aperture 3 is a winner when it comes to organising your pictures in a smart and effective way. Thanks to face detection and GPS tagging, this software package makes it very easy to index, sort and retrieve your photographs by searching for the pe...
Abstract: Aperture is Apple's professional-level photography software.All Mac computers come with the home-centric iPhoto software installed, which is used for organising, cataloguing, editing and sharing photos, but those who need more from their software can m...
Overall this is a solid release, well worth considering if you’ve outgrown iPhoto. Support for iPhoto libraries will mean you’re up and running quickly, and all the usual Apple refinements are present. Meanwhile, existing users of Aperture will love th...
