Apple Aperture 2.0

List Price: $199.00 Discount Price: $160.49

Features:

• Next-generation RAW image processing for producing images of the highest quality
• Quick Preview mode for rapid-fire photo browsing
• Image adjustment controls such as Recovery, Definition, Vibrancy, and Vignette; Soft-edged Retouch brush for removing unwanted elements from photos
• Simplified user interface that maximizes screen space and provides direct access to your iPhoto library
• .Mac Web Gallery support for instantly publishing photos online, allowing visitors to both view and download images

Customer Reviews:

way better than 1.5 [Posted on 2008-03-24]
If you want more control than iphoto, but easy to use this app is great.

Aperture 2.0 Rocks!! [Posted on 2008-04-02]
I've used Aperture since it's initial release. It won out over Adobe's product only because it became available first and I had a mighty need to organize my photos and work flow. My frustrations with the initial release of the Aperture 1.x series was non-intuitive menu items, viewing problems and sluggishness when downloading photos much less while running photoshop or some other memory hog. Aperture 2.0 is a pleasant surprise by a company that seems to listen to their customers. The menu items are much easier to understand and use and the performance on my Macbook Pro is not perfect but much much faster.

A photographer's workflow [Posted on 2008-04-18]
Using Aperture for awhile, I can see it is geared toward the pro photographer who wants to have their workflow in one program. It does a really good job targeting that traditional photographer market gone digital. The interface uses analogies for the different areas that a photographer feels comfortable with. You shoot, get it into Aperture, and then organize and process.


Photoshop is a competing product, not not really so. Its a complimentary product if you need to do photo work of a different sort, like photo illustration and retouching.

If you are a photographer first, and want an application that is going to get you organized and efficient, this is a great program. Other users can get by with Photoshop just fine.

Excellent product, glad I bought it.  [Posted on 2008-04-21]
I have LIghtroom and Aperture on my MBP. I have decided to uninstall LIghtroom after using both for about a year now. Both are excellent,but with Aperture integrating my images into all my other programs is effortless. Also the price is now more competitive and the ability to use Photoshop style plugins make it a no brainer. Highly recommend.

Excellent! [Posted on 2008-05-02]
I had switched to Lightroom because of performance issues with Aperture 1.5 and, too, at the time Lightroom had a more extensive array of develop tools, but I always preferred the mon-modular work flow of Aperture. The minute 2.0 was released, I switched back and am very pleased that I did...Aperture now has all the features of Lightroom and more and the performance issues are no longer an issue. Both are great apps, but for me, Aperture is the one.

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