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April 2010
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Excellent full-view mode with great added control
Extremely useful brush adjustment tools for precise edits
Handy preset Quick Fix modes with cool live preview
Interfaces with third-party plug-ins from premium album companies
Runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OSX Snow Leopard on Macs with Intel Core 2 Duo processors
Maskable edits for most adjustments
Multiple adjustment instances
Excellent metadata handling and embedding
Places and Faces features are smartly implemented
Better library and RAW/JPEG management
Curves adjustment with arbitrary points and custom vi
New editing tools
Including Brushes
Let photographers do everything within Aperture. Places feature displays images on maps and lets you search by location. Many useful updates and additions. Takes advantage of 64-bit hardware. Overhauled slideshow tool works with video.
Overall this is a solid release, well worth considering if you’ve outgrown iPhoto. Support for iPhoto libraries will mean you’re up and running quickly, and all the usual Apple refinements are present. Meanwhile, existing users of Aperture will love th...
Apple Aperture 3 now craftily straddles the divide between heavyweight professional productivity and consumer photo browser. There’s still that powerful indexing and manipulation we saw in Aperture 2; but now with better social skills, whether findi...
While Aperture is more expensive than similar products you might find on a PC, Mac owners will be delighted once they start playing around with their photos. Intuitive and sophisticated in equal measure, this is a stunning image processor and organise...
Abstract: A great solution for keen photographers, Aperture 3 offers easy and fun tools for sorting, rating, tagging and fixing large image collections. The new features introduced to this latest version are significant enough to warrant an upgrade if you are a...
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Published: 2010-02-24, Author: Steve , review by: macworld.co.uk
Vastly improved slideshows, impressive new brushes, multi-touch aware, ability to split and merge libraries, easy export to Flickr and Facebook
Sporadic reports of potential problems when upgrading older libraries, web page creation hasn’t been overhauled, need a powerful Mac and lots of RAM to run well
A lot has changed in this version of Aperture, so much in fact that it feels a little different, but it's all the better for it: improved RAW engine, updated sorting options, more powerful search features, much more versatile adjustments tools, among many...
Vastly improved slideshows; impressive new brushes; multitouch aware; ability to split and merge libraries; easy export to Flickr and Facebook
Sporadic reports of potential problems when upgrading older libraries; web page creation hasn’t been overhauled; need a powerful Mac and lots of RAM to run well
Abstract: Aperture 3 came out of nowhere. No warning, no pre-announcement, and no extended beta period as there was for version 2. You could almost think Apple was sneaking it out under the radar, unsure of its worth in the face of Adobe's continued onslaught wi...
Features need further improvement; limited to Mac OS
Overall, I find Aperture 3 extremely useful, though not as advanced when it comes to cameras’ technical compatibility issues. The software is fun, convenient, and easy to use. There are a lot of playful features like the Slideshow, Book, Web Page and W...
