The Apple Store is back online with the release of Aperture 3 (and not Aperture X has rumored couple of weeks ago). Among the new important features:
- It includes including Faces, Places and Brushes (Brushes for painting image adjustments onto parts of your)
- Aperture also handles your HD video straight from your camera, such as the recent Nikon D90 and D300s, etc...
- Existing Aperture users can upgrade for a suggested retail price of 99 USD or 199 USD for a brand new license
- Adjustment Presets Choose from dozens of professional imaging effects. Or create your own
- If you’re using a separate GPS tracking device, the path of your photo journey appears on the map when you import a track log
- Brushes New nondestructive, edge-aware brushes let you selectively apply powerful adjustments to photos.
- Full-Screen Browser Take advantage of your Apple display to get a big, uncluttered, full-screen view of your library.
- Advanced Slideshows Create spectacular multimedia shows with photos, HD video clips, titles, layered soundtracks
- RAW+JPEG Import Choose to have Aperture import RAW and JPEG images as joined pairs or separate images
- Double-click any image in the Import window to view it at a larger size. You can play video and audio clips before importing
- Merge and Sync Libraries To merge two or more Aperture libraries, simply drag one Aperture library into another. (handy option)
- Camera “LCD” Panel The easy-to-read display emulates the LCD screen on many digital cameras.
- Write IPTC Metadata to Master
- Chromatic Aberration Filter Remove the color fringing that can occur along edges due to optical issues
- 64-Bit Support (requires Snow Leopard and Intel Core 2 Duo processor)
- Aperture 3 is Intel-only
