Aperture 3

Source: www.pocket-lint.com --- 1 day ago
Outgrown iPhoto? There are some kinds of software that not even the mighty Apple can make user-friendly, no matter how hard it tries. That?doesn't stop Aperture 3 being a very good desktop application but straightforward it certainly?isn't. The principles are all there, and it comes from the right place. The package is aimed at the professional and enthusiast photographers and bears a striking resemblance on the outside to the considerably more basic?iPhoto. Now that the Faces and Places features have been added, it's all quite familiar at the surface level. The?corkboard?background is much the same with the stylised Polaroid print graphics for each separate person tag and, unsurprisingly, the software does a similarly excellent job of detecting the faces in all your snaps. That said, the so-called smart recognition process?doesn't feel quite as intelligent when you sit down to use it and, for a feature that's supposed to take a lot of the work of your hands on this front, you do rather feel like you're doing the lion's share of the tagging manually by having to tell your machine who each face belongs to. The newly added "unnamed faces" tab gives you an idea of just how many it has missed. The other major transplant from?iPhoto?is Places which probably works a little better even if it's a feature that slightly fewer people will use. To get the most out of it, you really need GPS?metadata?attached to your photographs, so either grab ...

Source: www.pinoytechblog.com --- 1 day ago
If you’re one of the many people who were not satisfied with Apple’s photo application, Aperture 1 or 2, that you were forced to switch to Adobe Lightroom, it’s time to go back and take a look at Aperture 3 . They made a lot, no a TON of improvements with this version. I saw a demo of the application and I was pretty impressed (I’m a Lightroom user mind you). Familiarity for iPhoto users If you love how iPhoto ‘09 manages your photo library then you will love how it is now incorporated with Aperture 3. Yup, Aperture 3 can now replace your iPhoto as your photo editing and management software. It also inherited iPhoto 09’s Faces (face recognition and tagging) and Places (geo-tagging) feature that is quite useful if you take a lot of vacation photos. Uploading to Facebook and Flickr is also included. iPhoto in steroids Aperture 3 is not your ordinary photo organizer software. If you usually edit your photos to correct lighting, white balance, etc., then you would you find it easy to use Aperture 3’s presets and brushes. Users of Adobe Lightroom are familiar with presets where you can treat photos with artistic effects based on preset settings. Aperture 3 has those but also offers brushes if you only want to treat a certain portion of a photo. You can set presets to your brushes so you can only apply for some spot treatments like only brushing the sky or the water with the polarizer preset. Create beautiful slideshows on the fly If you ...

Source: terrychay.com --- 5 days ago
A lot of people are complaining that the flickr sharing feature in Aperture 3 is missing geolocation data ( Places ). This is not true, all you have to do is go to Aperture > Preferences… > Web and check the box to “Include location information for published photos.” Then click on the “radar” buttons to the right of the Flickr sets in Aperture to force a resync. Your image geocodes will be re-uploaded (I noticed in my case, it re-uploaded the images instead of just resyncing the metadata, but that bug may have been fixed in Aperture 3.0.1). Here is a photo I uploaded via Aperture 3’s flickr sharing: The Concourse Level Westfield San Francisco Centre , Market Street, San Francisco, California Sony DSC-WX1 1/30sec @ ƒ2.4, ISO160, 4mm (24mm) I was so tired after the run, I could shop no longer…or rather, watch my friends shop. I decided to hang outside and take photos of the curvy escalators in Westfield San Francisco. And I actually needed to buy a suitcase from the Tumi store , too. You can see it has been placed on the map automatically . Sync, not Upload One thing a lot of people don’t realize is the flickr sharing is a synchronization , not an upload. This means that edits you make on flickr appear as metadata modifications in the original file. (I think it does not sync down changes to the image, but new images in a set do get brought down.) It also means you can’t do an upload without creating a set. It also means you are limited ...

Source: www.nwtblogs.com --- 6 days ago
Lightroom 3 vs Aperture 3 http://www.photoradar.com/reviews/buying-guides/lightroom-3-vs-Aperture-3 Adobe or Apple? If you're a photographer who uses a Mac for RAW workflow, which should you choose? Find out in our Lightroom 3 and Aperture 3 comparison… Aperture has made profound improvements when you get into the nitty gritty of editing images Photoshop may have just struck its 20th birthday, but in many ways it's less relevant to photographers than ever before. Not because it lacks power, features, or performance, but because photographers are now spoilt for choice by the two best workflow applications on the market. Aperture 3 arrived just over two weeks ago, while Lightroom 2 has been keeping pros happy for just under two years. Lightroom 3 is due to arrive before summer. Lightroom 3 might not be out yet - but you can get it for free, courtesy of Adobe's beta program at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3 . It's effectively a full piece of software already – in our experience it's fast, stable, and offers a few decent new features over the current version of Lightroom 2. But if you're a Mac user you're presented with a dilemma – Aperture 3 offers a raft of new features and, if Adobe's previous pricing is an indication you can expect to spend around £40 more on Lightroom. Should you splash out on Aperture 3 now or wait for Lightroom 3 to arrive later this year? GEORGE LESSARD Information, Communications and Media Specia ...