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DESCRIPTION
Apple Aperture is designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.
Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. From capture to output, you work directly with your RAW files, never having to first convert them into another format before viewing, adjusting, organizing, or printing them.
And with the most powerful image processing in the world, Aperture is fast - whether you’re working with RAW, JPEG, or TIFF images. It supports the RAW formats from all leading digital camera manufacturers (including Canon and Nikon) and provides optimized support for such market leading cameras as the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, Canon EOS 20D, and Nikon D2x as well as the highly popular Canon Digital Rebel and Nikon D50. It also supports the Adobe DNG format.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.4:
General compatibility and overall stability in the following areas:
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later. See this page for full requirements.
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| Apple Aperture User Reviews (47 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 17 2008 |
CH5719 After testing this and the latest Lightroom beta for a while, i settled on Aperture. Great stuff. Alone, and with some additional plugins (Nik etc), you don't even have to fire up Photoshop for post-processing most of the time.
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 | Nov 10 2008 |
DGOMBAU Have been comparing Lightroom 2 with Aperture 2. I do a lot of panos, and Lightroom has a simple integration with that Photo Merge feature in Photoshop. Aperture is a cumbersome, multi-step export operation. Aperture has a much more usable touchup and healing capability, whereas Lightoom is pretty basic. And Aperture has integration with Apple Photo Books. Still have not decided whether I like the gray palette of Aperture, or the black one of Lightroom. Currently I shoot with a Nikon D200. But I used to own a Nikon CoolPix 5700, and Aperture will not recognize the 5700 file format, for the thousands of images I took with the 5700. Lightroom will. Anyone have any comments to add to the above?
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| Apr 16 2009 |
"Have been comparing Lightroom 2 with Aperture 2. I do a lot of panos, and Lightroom has a simple integration with that Photo Merge feature in Photoshop. Aperture is a cumbersome, multi-step export operation." Yeah, but it is one ($150-200) Apple application, rather than 2 applications totaling more than $1000.00. If you already have PS, then what are you REALLY getting for your other $300.00? If you need a Pano program look in MU, there are some dedicated programs far more powerful than anything in LightRoom, with Aperture at $150.00 and your remaining $150.00, you can have your proverbial cake and eat it too. I think the decision is a no brainer. Adobe needs to restructure its pricing in a big way. It is now high-priced bloatware. Yes, I own a couple of suites, but I wouldn't if I didn't have to. Apple's pricing policies are democratizing. I think we should think about the impact of an entire market sector supporting good programming at rock bottom prices. What might happen . . . if?
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| Apr 16 2009 |
TOURNESOL Damn, it did not fix the Exif Picture orientation bug.
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| Apr 15 2009 |
TOURNESOL Great update. The rotate and thumbnail bugs were really annoying.
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 | Jul 28 2008 |
NORAA Grr, Aperture MobileMe Web Galleries still not showing up in iWeb (MobileMe Web Galleries created in iPhoto showing up just fine). Already emailed Apple about this and told that it was currently unsupported, figured that they'd fix it eventually! Guess not *shakes head slowly*
(Version 2.1.1) | |
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| Apr 27 2009 |
G> I installed 2.1.3 and I cannot get my albums into iWeb. I am a location scout working on a movie and this is really creating problems for me. I have not seen anything on the internet from Apple to remedy this and I need it fixed. To put out an update that creates this kind of a problem demands immediate response from Apple and it is not happening. Please help if you've found a cure. | |
| Jul 28 2008 |
HINES2KJ Please, can anyone confirm that this update fixes the maroon/red screen trouble with unsupported images showing up on existing Libraries? | |
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| Mar 29 2008 |
KBEAT Absolutely superb update. Apple has taken feedback from their customers and immediately addressed most of the remaining issues with version 2. I was just working on a project and saying "I wish Aperture would ...." and the very next day Apple releases 2.1 which gave me the tools and fixes I wanted. Aperture has become my primary application for photo management and touch up. Now, with the latest update I stay in Aperture 95% of the time. With the rumored HDR & tonemapping plug-in on the way, I'll be 100% Aperture if it works as well as Photomatrix.
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| Mar 28 2008 |
TOURNESOL Awsome update! Apple really listen to their costumers when it comes to adding new features in Aperture.
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