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Brand: Apple EAN: 0885909050482 Format: DVD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Apple Computer Manufacturer: Apple Computer Model: MA154Z/A MPN: 1143533 Platform: Mac OS X Publisher: Apple Computer Release Date: November 30, 2005 Studio: Apple Computer Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Aperture is the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers! Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot. With its RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. Its ultra-fast image processing combines with Photoshop's strong compositing and layer effects for creating the most stunning photographs every time. Powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, color managed printing and custom web and book publishing tools help you develop perfect contact sheets, elegant books, and gorgeous web pages - all as beautiful as the images you capture. Reduce noise, correct red-eye, or eliminate dust Launch directly into Adobe Photoshop with a single-click Unique compare and select tools in Aperture allow photographers to sift through massive photo projects and identify their final selections The unique Lift & Stamp tool applies modifications to any number of additional images Metadata on display giving you more information about your photos and allowing customized keywords, ratings, EXIF information, and IPTC data to fit your needs Supports the leading Digital Cameras, with optimized RAW format support for the following SLR's - Canon EOS, Canon Powershot, Nikon D Series, Nikon K1X, Olympus E1 and Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Amazon.com: 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. Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. From capture to output, you work directly with your RAW files, never having to first convert them into another format before viewing, adjusting, organizing, or printing them.
Whether you're a fashion, wedding, sports, portrait, fine art, commercial, or editorial photographer, Aperture's color-managed workflow and flexible design tools will help you easily create stunning prints, customized contact sheets, elegant books, and web pages as beautiful as the images you capture. Advanced RAW Workflow As a photographer, you know all about the benefits of shooting RAW. With access to all the data your digital SLR can record, you're capturing images of startling quality, great dynamic range, and virtually no noise. And now, for the very first time, you have an application that provides you with more control of the final image than you've ever had before. One that actually makes working with RAW files as easy as working with JPEGs.
Aperture provides you with the tools to do it all -- import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your photographs -- in a RAW-focused workflow that's the first of its kind. Rather than using another application to manage your images, Aperture offers built-in project management with robust and flexible tools that make it easy to handle thousands of projects. They include a powerful suite of tools for editing a photo shoot. It's one of the most tedious jobs any photographer faces, and it's been particularly taxing when shooting RAW. But Aperture provides tools specifically designed to work with RAW files and to speed you through the process of sifting through thousands of images, culling the rejects, comparing the keepers, and identifying your absolutely finest photographs. Nor do you have to convert your images in order to make needed adjustments. You can perfect them without having to leave Aperture, using a powerful suite of nondestructive image editing tools. The tools -- including Levels, White Balance, Exposure, Sharpening, Noise Reduction and more -- afford you the freedom to experiment without having to worry about damaging your valuable original images. That's because Aperture applies modifications only to "versions" of your images and never to the original "master" images themselves. Professional Project Management Aperture, the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers, provides everything you need to manage your photo library: flexible organizational tools, comprehensive metadata support, and powerful search tools that let you find files instantly.
Organize a photo library with thousands of projects any way you want -- in Projects, Albums, Folders, or any combination thereof. Create multiple Albums of related images within a Project. Or nest folders inside a project to organize albums, books, web sites, and light tables. You can even have Aperture automatically group images together into Smart Albums based on defined criteria. With Aperture, you can work on multiple projects at once and freely copy or move photos among folders, projects, and albums. Aperture lets you view, extract, and add metadata with unprecedented ease. On import, it automatically extracts all industry-standard EXIF and IPTC metadata. What's more, it lets you comprehensively add important metadata -- copyright, captions, keywords -- at the point of import. As you work with images, you're never more than a keystroke away from seeing your metadata in, for example, the customizable Metadata Heads-Up Display, where you can customize the metadata to suit your needs. You can also choose what metadata Aperture displays with your images and what metadata to embed when you export images. And when it comes to keywords, Aperture significantly outshines other applications. It not only supports true, hierarchical keywording but also provides a number of intuitive ways to assign keywords to images. For example, Aperture comes with collections of associated Keyword Sets (and lets you create your own). Call up the Wedding Set, for example, and you'll have a group of associated keywords -- bride, table shots, wedding party, vows, candids, limo, cake cutting -- any of which you can assign with a keystroke. Using the Keyword Heads-Up Display, you can drag and drop keywords onto a single image or entire group of images at once. And, here's a real time-saver, once you've assigned a variety of keywords to an image, Aperture lets you "lift" them from one image and "stamp" them onto other images. Assigning and working with keywords has never been simpler or more rewarding. Powerful Compare and Select Tools
Of course, with that large, high-resolution screen right before your eyes, wouldn't it be great if you could take advantage of all that real estate and review your images full screen? With Aperture, you can. In fact, Aperture lets you view your images full screen as large as screen real estate permits. And if you have two displays, you can take advantage of Aperture's expansive full-screen mode on both of them to create an incomparable working environment. Using the Filmstrip displayed along the bottom or side of your monitor, you can see thumbnails of all the images you're reviewing. You can navigate through them quickly and easily to find the images you want to see, even organizing them on the fly. Open any of the Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) available in Aperture to adjust levels, increase brightness, modify color temperature, assign keywords, straighten horizons, or make any other adjustments you'd like. Aperture also lets you view multiple photos side by side, offering a great way to evaluate similar images or multiple versions of the same image. Nondestructive Image Processing With Aperture, you never have to worry about retouching images or trying out different image adjustments because Aperture makes protecting your RAW images job one. Designed to protect your images from the moment they're imported, Aperture identifies your original images as digital "masters," and it has built-in safeguards to ensure that you can't accidentally overwrite or modify them. In fact, it's physically impossible to alter a single pixel of a digital master. Instead. Aperture takes a novel and completely nondestructive approach to image editing.
Unlike the duplicate files you need to create in other applications, image "versions" take up virtually no storage space, so you don't pay an overhead penalty. And Aperture automatically keeps track of all your image versions for you, sequentially numbering them on the fly and connecting them to the "master" image as part of a Stack. Offering native RAW image editing and breakthrough speed, Aperture puts the most essential adjustment tools at your immediate disposal via either the Adjustments Inspector or the Adjustments Heads-Up Display (HUD). Using these tools, you can fine-tune exposure, use a Histogram to check and adjust levels, set white balance, or modify highlight and shadows. If you need to crop, straighten horizons, reduce noise, correct red-eye, or eliminate dust, you'll find intuitive tools available to you. In fact, if you use any of the adjustment tools to modify or retouch an image, you can use Aperture's unique "Lift and Stamp" tool to apply those modifications to any number of additional images. Versatile Printing and Publishing Using Aperture, you can produce high-quality prints and contact sheets, design customized books, and create impressive web sites as beautiful as the photographs you take. Best of all, you can do it all with drag-and-drop ease.
If you've ever tried to print contact sheets using other photo applications, you're probably familiar with the expression, "there's gotta be a better way." Now there is. Aperture lets you print contact sheets more quickly and easily than you can using just about any other photo application available today. There's more good Aperture printing news. In addition to helping you create your own color-correct prints, Aperture also provides an integrated print-ordering service that lets you order silver-halide prints directly from Kodak and Fuji at highly competitive pricing. Color managed for consistency, the prints assure predictable results and are available in standard sizes and large formats. You can also depend on Aperture's built-in color management if you use a service bureau to print your photos. Aperture's Export Preset editor lets you simply select the ICC profile recommended by or obtained from your service bureau from a drop-down menu. Aperture embeds the profile in your files upon export, so you'll know what to expect when you get the photos in the mail. Beautiful, color-accurate prints. Presenting prospective clients with a handsome, bound and printed Stock Book sends a powerful message. And Aperture makes the production of such high-quality bound books both simple and affordable. To help you put a unique stamp on them, Aperture includes a sophisticated book-layout engine that offers significant design flexibility.
Unlike other photo applications, Aperture templates aren't set in stone. Using the web gallery template, for example, you can decide how many rows and columns of images appear on each page, how large the thumbnails should be, and what metadata should accompany the images. What's more -- and this is important -- Aperture's web-authoring environment is WYSIWYG. Any change you make happens on screen in real time, so you can see the effect right away. This offers a significant advantage over the many wizard-based applications that force you to step through one dialog after another. Cumbersome to use, they don't let you see the results of your changes until the very end. Aperture offers a welcome change, letting you see your site develop right before your eyes. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Workflow Management . . . Not a Photoshop Replacement . . .Aperture does not, nor did Apple advertise it to, be a replacement for Photoshop! Photoshop is the Emporor God of Pixel-oriented image editors (with a bit of object-oriented graphics thrown in). Giving the program a negative review for it not replacing Photoshop makes about as much sense as giving it a negative review for it not being a sports car! That being said, as a photographer, I end up opening all of my Canon Mark II ds 17 megabyte files in Photoshop to do minor tweeks and adjustments. ... Read More Rating:  - Good fast organizer, weak on editing, overpricedI have been using Apple Aperture for a little bit, now -- still getting used to the interface and learning about it. It is installed on my PowerBook G4 with 17" screen, 2 Gb memory. It seems to run fast enough, even before I installed the 1.01 update. I suspect that those who have been complaining about how slow it is have too little memory installed. You should have at least 1 Gb RAM. Flipping through raw files was instantaneous. It does take a long time to import a file; about half ... Read More Rating: - Aperture Initial ThoughtsIf you buy this program, do yourself a favor and concentrate on what it DOES do, and not what it doesn't do. It's NOT a Photoshop replacement. It's not even fair to compare it with Photoshop. Photoshop is a pixel editor. Photoshop isn't designed JUST for photographers. Aperture ISN'T a pixel editor. It WAS BUILT FROM THE GROUND up for photographers. It's a workflow/image management solution. You can replace Portfolio or iViewMultimedia Pro with Aperture and find ... Read More Rating: - THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE VERDICT...PT 2I shoot event photography. Primarily wedding. 2MHZ G5 w/ 5G of RAM and a 1.5MHZ Powerbook w/ 2GB of RAM. This is the second review of this product for me, I deleted the first after giving the editing tools more of a chance. THE GOOD. This tool is great for going through your photos, making selects, rating and keywording and organizing them into folders. The metadata features allow you to customize searches and create albums limited only by your imagination. Truly great. ... Read More Rating:  - Aperture--Photoshop killer or Digital Workflow expert?Okay--so I loaded Aperture in my dual 2 gig G5 and it certainly is chocked full of features designed for the professional photographer. Everything from loading native RAW files at breakneck speeds, to sorting and cataloging RAW master files using extremely comprehensive filing and search features, and last but not least, to the editing and processing of files for export to printers, slideshows, a built-in website and book publishing. It really is a program designed to cover a photographer's complete digital ... Read More |
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