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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 32
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.1 x 0.7
MPN: MB673Z/A
Model: MB673Z/A
UPC: 885909249695
EAN: 0885909193608
ASIN: B000BX5IKI
Release Date: February 15, 2008
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 way better than 1.5 March 24, 2008
Jeremy Burton
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you want more control than iphoto, but easy to use this app is great.
Good software is hard to find June 13, 2008
Trantiom (LA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Aperture is a fantastic piece of software for managing and enhancing all your photos. You can manage master photos with various versions, which unlike iPhoto will store the adjustment parameters rather than a copy of the photo.
Importing and generation of previews is threaded so you can continue working while it churns away in the background.
I am a strong user of keywords and Aperture does not dissapoint. You can search on these keywords, any of the EXIF data, import date, photo date etc.
I also recently designed and printed a book using Apples book printing service embedded in Aperture. It was an absolutely seemless process. I designed the book with ease. Apple pay attention to many of the minor details which make authoring a joy rather than a chore. Uploading, paying and receiving the book could not have been more seemless.
I have not noticed any major bugs. One niggling bug, however, is that occasionally the thumbnails are not displayed correctly. Fortunately you can force a rebuild of those thumbnails.
 Not as good as Picassa, which is free! July 8, 2008
0149 (USA)
6 out of 34 found this review helpful
Apple is selling what should have been a free update to iPhoto. Worse, it confuses iPhoto into creating multiple copies of each photo, and has a schizo stacking algorithm.
The omissions are glaring.
No duplicate finder, no layers, weak cropping and poor output controls.
They have, however, jumped on the "pug-in" train to up-sell even more "features" which ought to come with a program like this.
No where near as good as even Photoshop Elements, and even slower, even on fast hardware.
Apple should go back to photography school.
Aperture 2 - Easy way to work a lot of photos July 25, 2008
T. Riherd (North Florida, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I used this product on a trial basis after shooting over 100 photos for a local dance performance. I was able to quickly crop, tweak, eliminate red-eye and perform a lot of other things quickly. I have Photoshop CS, but I have to upgrade in order to import my Nikon D300 images, so I thought I would give this a try as it is a less expensive answer than upgrading.
Obviously it is not as powerful as Photoshop, but I have found it to handle a lot of the basic photo modifications well. Aperture is not quite as complex or intimidating to use and doesn't require reading a book in order to figure out how to do the simple tasks. If I have a single photo that I need to spend a lot of time with or want to really change its' appearance drastically, it's off to Photoshop or Nikon Capture. If I have 50 pictures that need only minor tweaking, I'm using Apple's software.
I doubt that there's much Aperture will do that Photoshop won't, and if one takes the time to learn how to program Photoshop batch functions, maybe large numbers of photos can be handled just as quickly. But I do not think that many people could be as productive as quickly as they can with this software. It has Apple's hallmark intuitive processes that you would expect to be a part of the package. You can export a selection of photos to low or high resolution jpg files very easily. And for those who've not yet learned to shoot in the native RAW formats of their Nikons or Canons, you will be surprised to see just how many sub-par unprocessed JPG files can be transformed into winners by shooting in RAW and using the features in this software.
It's fairly priced, pretty powerful, and relatively simple to use. So shoot RAW, tweak, upload, print, frame up those stunning 8x10 photos in your office and start hearing people tell you how good a photographer you are!
 Good but a bit buggy August 18, 2008
Adam Prall (Kauai, Hawaii)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A good program for serious photographers, with a few caveats: while it has helped studio workflow regarding photos tremendously, it has a few flaws: 1. performance: at times, it can seriously bog down. Improved quite a bit after the last 2.1 update, but still a bit of a problem at times. 2. Interface: its very non-standard interface can be *EXTREMELY* irritating at times. Oddly-shaped windows, strange, docking palettes and downright bizzare keyboard shortcuts really mar this product. I do enjoy some of the streamlining offered by the interface, and the fact that many shortcuts are single letters/symbols (esp. rotation and picking images) but wish that some of its interface were a little less "effect-y" and a little more effect-IVE.
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