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Aperture 2.0 (Mac)
from: Apple

Off The Bookshelf's Price: £126.01

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909249695
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB673Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Studio: Apple
Sales Rank: 116
MPN: MB673Z/A

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Product Description:
APPLE APERTURE 2.1.1

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Poor product - avoid if you wish to keep your sanity!
Sadly I found this product to be a waste of money. Apart from being twice the price of other applications of its sort it suffers from having one of the most frustrating and illogical flaws I have ever come across - it will not allow you to name your master files when imported from a camera.

This is the same flaw that exists with iPhoto too. Both programmes will let you call your files whatever you want - and in Aperture there are, as you'd expect, more way of doing it than in iPhoto. However, as soon as you drag or copy/paste a photo file OUT of the programme you will see that it has kept its original camera assigned numeric filename. Neither Aperture (or iPhoto for that matter) will allow you to change it. This infuriating quirk ... Read More:

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- Aperture 2 - there really is no competition!!
I am a football and celebrity events photographer and can do anything up to 500 images a game/event. These images need to be sorted, checked, altered and sent out as soon as possible after the game. I have used Lightroom and currently am trying out Lightroom 2 Beta, after I could not get on with the first Aperture due to its slow uploading capabilities. However, Aperture 2 knocks the socks off Lightroom including the new Beta version. The other major factor which influences me to go with Aperture 2 over Lightroom is the tethered camera options. If I tether my camera and use lightroom I need to use both Canon's and Nikon's software to upload in the first instance then download into Lightroom. No such problem in Aperture 2, its tether up, ... Read More:

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- Good but an important feature has been left out
This is a very nice looking piece of software and generally more intuitive to use than some of its rivals. It is particularly good for batch-handling industrial quantities of images.

The other reviewers identify what's good about aperture 2 so I will just point out a single missing feature that makes it short of perfect. Perspective ('converging verticals' in building shots) and lens distortion ('pincushion' and 'barrel') may have to be corrected on images. The omission of a perspective correction tool from Aperture 2 is a serious (and surprising) shortcoming.

Rating:

- A Worthy Upgrade to an Essential Photo Application
I recently upgraded from the original Aperture (Ver. 1.2) to this new version (Ver. 2.1), and I am very happy with it.

Image editing enhancements aside (there's many a tutorial and explanation on the Apple website), the major criticism I found with Aperture 1 was that it was a massive memory hog, mostly due to the program being designed for Power-PC architecture. This meant that when editing photos or loading up the program on my Intel-Macbook, the software was very 'heavy' and laggy at times.

This version is now configured to work with Intel-chipsets in the current Macintosh lineup and as such operates far more smoothly and requires much less memory to run. It has also been 'polished' to be consistent with the aesthetic ... Read More:

Software : Aperture 2.0 (Mac)