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Aperture 2.0 (Mac) | 
| From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: £129.00
Buy New: £119.43
You Save: £9.57 (7%)
New (20) Used (1) from £80.00
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 171
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.1 x 0.7
MPN: MB673Z/A
Model: MB673Z/A
UPC: 885909249695
EAN: 0885909193608
ASIN: B000BX5IKI
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Aperture 2 - there really is no competition!! June 2, 2008
Mr. G. Bridgeman-clarke (Rayleigh UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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, fire away and see the results in Aperture 2. No contest!! And a final thank you for Apple in pricing the software competitively. Aperture 1 was far too expensive but this software is cheaper being less the half the price of the original release and it has far more going for it.
Good but an important feature has been left out April 30, 2008
Dr. Keith A. Moseley (UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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. br / br /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.
A Worthy Upgrade to an Essential Photo Application April 25, 2008
A. Simmons (Yorkshire, UK)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
I recently upgraded from the original Aperture (Ver. 1.2) to this new version (Ver. 2.1), and I am very happy with it. br / br /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. br / br /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 changes in OSX Leopard. br / br /Aperture is far superior to Apple's iPhoto, and also can export files to be edited in external programs, such as Photoshop. For organising a large photo library and all the non-destructive image-editing that goes with it (files remain in tact, only the changes are saved and applied when viewing and exporting the images, saving on crucial hard-drive space) this program is essential, if not amazingly beneficial to professionals and amateur photographers alike. A long overdue upgrade to an amazingly useful program.
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