During yet another press event, Apple introduced new PowerMacs and PowerBooks as well as a new photo application called Aperture. The fastest new PowerMac holds two dual-core G5 processors at 2.5Ghz each, while the two lower-end models have one dual-core G5 at 2.0 or 2.3Ghz. The dual-core G5s have 1MB L2 cache per core. The 15" and 17" PowerBooks now have 1440x960 and 1680x1050 resolutions. Aperture is post-production photo software built for professional photographers.
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Yes,
This is the app the entire Digital Photography world has been waiting for. It's not iPhoto Pro, it's a just a great app that holds its own.
PS really isn't a great tool for doing digital photography development. It's a tool for altering photos heavily. But what people who shoot in raw like myself have been waiting for is a app that lets us shoot in just raw, dump the files to our computer/laptops and open them all up quickly and see what we got. Currently this is a painful process with apps like photoshop. Also photoshop is overkill, since all one really cares about if your not into destroying photos, is preserving your files, adding any needed meta data, renaming and such. then Adjusting things like white-balance, making B&W conversions, cropping, resizing, and exporting/printing final prints. There really is nothing that comes close to this currently. And definitely not something this fast or user friendly. Just the whole viewing possibility is in make it worth it (partially since OSX lacks a proper built in image viewer)
This will almost definitely go on to be the biggest pro app apple has ever created. Photography is done by way more people then any of the other areas covered by apples pro apps. This apps will be bought by amateurs in flocks. It's cheaper then CS2 (half the price I think).
I so hope it lives up to what I'm seeing. If it does, I think it will be the most important app ever to me. (that is of apps that arn't given apps that everyone uses, like webbrowsers.
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2005-07-07
feel like commenting on Aperture?
They're pricing it like a Photoshop competitor, but the description sounds like iPhoto Pro Special Eye Candy Edition. Does it sound like there's something important there?
Photoshop owns Mac graphics; the Windows version is appallingly weak in comparison, but still popular. It's expensive but it works well, it's familiar, and everyone has it. Even if Aperture can't replace Photoshop outright, does it offer anything (that iPhoto doesn't) that might make it worth having in addition? For $500?