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Apple Releases Aperture

Apple announced Aperture today during their media event. The new Pro Software application is a post-production tool for photographers.

Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.


The $499 application will ship in November. Other features include:

- RAW image-based workflow
- Importing, editing, catalog, organization, retouch, publishing and archival tools
- RAW formats, TIFF, JPEG, DNG
- Full screen workspace
- Colorsync profies
- Recommends a dual 2.0GHz or faster Power Mac G5.

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83 months ago
such an elegant interface! I wish I had a camera that takes raw pictures just to be able to use it!
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83 months ago
Requires dual 2.0 Ghz or faster!!!- so, they are going to sell loads of this program then...
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83 months ago
As i said in another thread, it sucks to see a new interface come out of Apple, but this interface does look pretty damn cool.

(the Open/Save dialog appears to be all grey in that app)
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83 months ago

Requires dual 2.0 Ghz or faster!!!- so, they are going to sell loads of this program then...


It's a Pro app - the 'Pros' have the equipment - or will upgrade shortly to meet the requirements.

This isn't for you and your momma.
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83 months ago
I don't know if anyone REALLY believed Apple would try to kill Photoshop. Happily they did not :) This app meets a specific need that Photoshop didn't meet.
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83 months ago
You look at something like this and wonder why anyone would use anything else? Apple is probably hoping the same thing. They want the photo market and I think they have it.

As far as Adobe is concerned Aperture is only stepping on them a little. The problem with Photoshop is that it has to be all things to all people. This is a very focused application. Does anyone think Microsoft could write something this nice?
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83 months ago
I'm not shamed to admit that I don't know nothing about photo software or even about taking a decent picture...

But I'm glad Apple is in the game with a good app, at least for what I heard!
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83 months ago

As i said in another thread, it sucks to see a new interface come out of Apple, but this interface does look pretty damn cool.

(the Open/Save dialog appears to be all grey in that app)


Not sure I see your point. This has a very similar interface with the rest of their pro line.
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83 months ago
I'm at work so I can't do that much reasearch now, but how close is this to say Extensis Portfolio?
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83 months ago
It looks very interesting; I will check it out when it is released.
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