Product Description

Aperture 2 gives photographers incredible tools to manage massivelibraries speed through photo edits make essential imageadjustments and deliver photos online and in print using onesimple integrated workflow. Whether you shoot RAW or JPEGAperture le

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172 in Software
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MB673Z/A
• Released on: 2008-03-20
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .50 pounds

Features

• Image adjustment controls such as Recovery, Definition, Vibrancy, and Vignette""
• Soft-edged Retouch brush for removing unwanted elements from photos
• Next-generation RAW image processing for producing images of the highest quality
• Quick Preview mode for rapid-fire photo browsing
• MobileMe Gallery support to instantly publish photos online, allowing visitors to both view and download images""

Manufacturer's Description
Gives photographers incredible tools to manage massive libraries, speed through photo edits, make essential image adjustments, and deliver photos online and in print using one simple, integrated workflow. Whether you shoot RAW or JPEG, Aperture lets you get the most out of your photography.

Customer Reviews

A Worthy Upgrade to an Essential Photo Application
I recently upgraded from the original Aperture (Ver. 1.2) to this new version (Ver. 2.1), and I am very happy with it.

Image editing enhancements aside (there's many a tutorial and explanation on the Apple website), the major criticism I found with Aperture 1 was that it was a massive memory hog, mostly due to the program being designed for Power-PC architecture. This meant that when editing photos or loading up the program on my Intel-Macbook, the software was very 'heavy' and laggy at times.

This version is now configured to work with Intel-chipsets in the current Macintosh lineup and as such operates far more smoothly and requires much less memory to run. It has also been 'polished' to be consistent with the aesthetic changes in OSX Leopard.

Aperture is far superior to Apple's iPhoto, and also can export files to be edited in external programs, such as Photoshop. For organising a large photo library and all the non-destructive image-editing that goes with it (files remain in tact, only the changes are saved and applied when viewing and exporting the images, saving on crucial hard-drive space) this program is essential, if not amazingly beneficial to professionals and amateur photographers alike. A long overdue upgrade to an amazingly useful program.

Good but an important feature has been left out
This is a very nice looking piece of software and generally more intuitive to use than some of its rivals. It is particularly good for batch-handling industrial quantities of images.

The other reviewers identify what's good about aperture 2 so I will just point out a single missing feature that makes it short of perfect. Perspective ('converging verticals' in building shots) and lens distortion ('pincushion' and 'barrel') may have to be corrected on images. The omission of a perspective correction tool from Aperture 2 is a serious (and surprising) shortcoming.

Aperture version 2 - A Good Product
Aperture 2.1.1 Retail

For Mac users only a good piece of photo software that is powerful and easy to use. I use mainly RAW images but have a lot of older images in various JPEG and TIFF formats and they integrate well.
Looked at a lot of other software and this was the best it provides the tools you want, and importanty good indexing (I plan to have over 100gb of films), they call it "projects" but think of normal folders and sub-folders and you got the structure. Unlike some other software you can create and change slideshows without having to use fixedfiles. Like the ability to use the plugs ins by Nik Efex to create the exact film look you want. These plug ins are not cheap but worth the money especially the B & W ones.

As with Apple it all works seamlessly with Iphoto, Itunes to create just the shows you need of your photos. Great product.