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: #161 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

• Apple Aperture 2.0
• Image adjustment controls such as Highlight Reco
• Retouch tool with soft-edged brush to remove unw
• Next-generation RAW image processing for highest
• Quick Preview mode for rapid-fire photo browsing

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 2 - there really is no competition!!
I am a football and celebrity events photographer and can do anything up to 500 images a game/event. These images need to be sorted, checked, altered and sent out as soon as possible after the game. I have used Lightroom and currently am trying out Lightroom 2 Beta, after I could not get on with the first Aperture due to its slow uploading capabilities. However, Aperture 2 knocks the socks off Lightroom including the new Beta version. The other major factor which influences me to go with Aperture 2 over Lightroom is the tethered camera options. If I tether my camera and use lightroom I need to use both Canon's and Nikon's software to upload in the first instance then download into Lightroom. No such problem in Aperture 2, its tether up, fire away and see the results in Aperture 2. No contest!! And a final thank you for Apple in pricing the software competitively. Aperture 1 was far too expensive but this software is cheaper being less the half the price of the original release and it has far more going for it.