Aperture 3
Aperture is designed for iPhoto users who want to get more out of their photos. It includes powerful tools for refining images, showcasing your work, and managing massive libraries on your Mac. Enhanced Faces and Places provide new ways to organize images. Nondestructive brushes with built-in edge detection make precision retouching of photographs intuitive and fast. Choose from dozens of built-in adjustment presets, or create your own to give your photos a custom look. Advanced slideshows support HD video and give you complete control over text, transitions, and timing. And stunning full-screen views let you use every inch of your Mac display to navigate and browse your entire library.
Organize photos using Faces and Places
• Use face detection and recognition to organize your photos by the people in them
• Explore photos based on where you took them, using robust GPS support
• Drag photos to an interactive map to add location data easily
• Preserve all your Faces and Places data when importing photos from iPhoto
Perfect images with brushes
• Retouch photos nondestructively using edge-aware brushes
• Handle the most common touch-up tasks with a set of 10 Quick Brushes
• Easily paint adjustments into specific parts of the image using built-in edge detection
Add professional imaging effects with adjustment presets
• Apply any combination of adjustment settings with a single selection
• Choose from dozens of ready-to-use presets or create and share your own presets
• See results of any preset in a live preview window before applying it to an image
Create stunning multimedia slideshows
• Use professionally designed themes to weave together photos and HD video clips
• Add text to slides using your choice of fonts, styles, and colors
• Build a layered soundtrack with location audio clips and music tracks
Photo Stream
• Photo Stream view displays recent photos taken on your iOS devices
• Automatically import Photo Stream photos into your Aperture library
• Automatically send newly imported photos to all your iOS devices
Aperture print products are available in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and select countries in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Some features and third-party services require Internet access and either iCloud or MobileMe; additional fees and terms may apply. iCloud and MobileMe are available to persons age 13 or older.
Third-party services may not be available in all languages or in all countries. Use of these services requires Internet access and may require you to accept additional terms.
Pros
- Quick Brushes
- Brushing in adjustments
- Better RAW processing
- New adjustments such as curves
Cons
- Requires a fast computer to run optimally
- Faces can bog down the system
- Inability to group brushed-in adjustments
- Some users have reported troubling bugs
Software Details
- Apple
- 3.2.2
- 641.17 MB
- 10.5.8 or 10.6.2 or later
- Intel only
- $199 new; $99 upgrade
- $79.99
- 4
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