Aperture 3
Apple today released the latest version of their photo management application, Aperture. Aperture 3 closes the gap that made many users, myself included, very keen to move to Adobe Lightroom. With the new release, Apple has crammed over 200 enhancements and features into the existing product. Most significantly, face recognition is now built-in, working in a similar fashion to the same feature in iPhoto. Geotagging of photos is also supported, as is digital video importing directly from capable DSLR‘s.
By far the most important technical reason to upgrade is the fact that Aperture 3 is a native 64-bit application. A huge number of photo adjustment options are available in the application, too. Taking a hint from Lightroom 3, the new Aperture integrates very nicely with photo sharing sites like Flickr.
