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`Apple releases Aperture 3
`Updated interface, Faces, Places highlight new features
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`by Jason Snell, Macworld.com
`Apple may not be at Macworld 2010 this week, but the company still managed to announce a new product just in time for
`the trade show. On Tuesday Apple announced Aperture 3, the latest version of the company’s $199 pro-level photo-editing
`and management software.
`“We’ve added over 200 new features, so it’s a pretty big release,” Kirk Paulsen, senior director of photo applications at
`Apple, told Macworld. “And we’ve addressed the entire workflow, from import all the way to output. Our focus has been on
`keeping the pro performance, but streamlining and simplifying Aperture for iPhoto users who want to do more. So the yin-
`and-yang of performance and simplicity is what we focused on.”
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`The update ($99 for existing Aperture users; a free trial will also be available) includes advanced versions of the Faces and
`Places features previously seen in iPhoto ’09. There’s a new image-refinement tool called Brushes, which allows users to
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`paint adjustments directly on to images. And a new Projects feature adds flexibility. Aperture 3 will run in 64-bit mode on
`Snow Leopard and 64-bit processors.
`Paulsen said the Aperture 3 interface “looks more iPhoto-like,” with larger and easier-to-read type and streamlined buttons
`and sliders. “Everything’s bigger and redesigned,” he said. And iPhoto ’09 users can import their libraries directly into
`Aperture 3, with all existing Events, Faces, and Places preserved.
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`Faces and Places
`When iPhoto ’09 was released, Paulsen said, “the Aperture discussion boards lit up, asking when they could see” Faces and
`Places within Aperture. With Aperture 3, those features have been added—but they’ve also been “extended and enhanced
`for prosumer photographers—and pros, for that matter,” according to Paulsen.
`Under the hood, Aperture 3 uses the same face-recognition technology as iPhoto ’09. But Paulsen said that in Aperture the
`user has more control, such as being able to constrain face-scanning to individual projects—for example, a wedding
`photographer can limit face scanning to a single event, so that Aperture doesn’t attempt to match the faces in one
`wedding to the faces in every other photo in his or her library.
`There’s also an Unnamed Faces View, a film strip on the new Faces Corkboard, which shows all the faces that the program
`has detected but hasn’t been able to name.
`The implementation of Places in Aperture 3 “sets a new standard for geotagging for photographs,” Paulsen said. As with
`iPhoto ’09, there’s a map interface with tiles from Google Maps and reverse-geocoding is performed by Apple’s servers. But
`Aperture 3’s map is highly interactive, allowing users to drag and drop thumbnails onto the map, move pins if the location’s
`slightly off, and even import GPX files so that users of GPS logging tools can auto-match an entire set of photos to the GPS
`data. The program also writes latitude and longitude data back to the photo files’ IPTC data.
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`Brushes and adjustments
`The new Brushes feature is “probably the most requested feature in Aperture,” Paulsen said. With Brushes, users can now
`selectively adjust portions of their images, rather than adjusting the entire image. There are 15 Quick Brushes, presets for
`the most common retouching tasks, such as increasing contrast, polarizing, dodging, burning, and adjusting saturation. But
`in addition, users can turn adjustments they’ve created in the Inspector window—including the new curves setting—into a
`brush.
`Each brush stroke can be turned on or off individually, as the adjustments are entirely non-destructive. And Brushes
`includes an optional edge-detection feature that analyzes what you’re brushing in real-time and limits adjustments to the
`area you intended to modify.
`Aperture’s adjustment-preset system has been updated. Previously, users could save an adjustment setting as a preset.
`Now users can take combinations of those adjustments and save them together as a single preset. Aperture 3 comes
`preloaded with “dozens of presets,” according to Paulsen, including quick-fixes, white-balance fixes, and black-and-white and
`color adjustments. All presets are importable and exportable, and Paulsen said he “can see a whole ecosystem of
`developers selling presets, which users can buy and import.”
`
`Output and slideshows
`In addition to book layout, web galleries, and web journals, Aperture now supports uploading to Facebook and Flickr. These
`features are “pretty much the same as iPhoto,” Paulsen said, though he added that Faces names in a photo can now be
`added to Flickr as keywords.
`Aperture 3 boasts a new slideshow engine, which offers the features of iPhoto ’09’s advanced slideshows—but with all the
`controls opened up. Users can define slide durations and transitions, add text and borders, define multilayered soundtracks,
`and even add video. (Aperture 3 imports and supports video, offering a trimming interface similar to iPhoto.) Slideshows
`can then be rendered to video and sent to iTunes, and Aperture 3 supports exporting slideshows in 720p and 1080p
`formats for display on HDTVs.
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`Other advancements
`Aperture 3 offers a new full-screen view, that lets you work on projects, thumbnails, and even the Browser in full-screen
`view. And there’s a Library Path Navigator feature that allows you “to navigate to any part of your library without leaving
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`full-screen mode,” Paulsen said.
`Library handling is also improved in Aperture 3. If you’ve got multiple Aperture library files, you can merge them all together
`in one place. A photographer with a MacBook Pro on a remote photo shoot can start with a fresh library and import it into
`his or her master library upon returning home. More impressively, Aperture will sync and merge libraries: photographers can
`export a portion of their libraries to a laptop, take it on the road to do work, and then bring that library back home.
`Aperture will detect what’s changed and sync only the changes back to the master library.
`The new version of Aperture runs in 64-bit mode on Snow Leopard, and Paulsen said that’s especially good news for users
`who have giant files, such as super high-resolution scanned images. Those images can now be loaded into memory, vastly
`increasing performance.
`The last major update to Aperture, version 2 (
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