Apple Aperture 2.1.1
Apple's Aperture is designed for professional photographers, providing everything needed after the shoot, delivering an all-in-one post-production tool for photographers. Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. From capture to output, you work directly with your RAW files, never having to first convert them into another format before viewing, adjusting, organizing, or printing them.
Its new features include:
- An optimized database and a streamlined, more responsive user interface that dramatically improves performance throughout your workflow.
- Enhanced image processing that leverages the next-generation RAW image processing in Mac OS X Leopard and delivers images of astounding quality, offering superb color fidelity, increased shadow detail, reduced noise, and advanced highlight recovery, plus new RAW Fine Tuning controls, adjusting RAW rendering on an image-by-image basis.
- Seamless integration with other Mac software, services, and Mac OS X, Aperture 2 saves you time and effort by reaching out to almost every application on your Mac. With a .Mac account, you can take advantage of new support for .Mac Web Gallery to create beautiful online portfolios — even allowing clients, colleagues, or friends to download JPEG or RAW originals complete with embedded metadata while you're in the field.
- Lets you sync your Aperture library to an iPhone or iPod, or enjoy your photos on a widescreen TV in high definition using Apple TV.
- Tight integration with iLife '08 and iWork '08 allows you to create audio slideshows in iMovie, animated presentations in Keynote, or digital portfolios in iDVD. In iLife, iWork, and applications such as Leopard Mail, you'll find a media or photo browser that lets you browse the projects, albums, and Smart Albums in your Aperture library for images you'd like to use.
- Import images directly from cameras and storage devices including Compact Flash I, II and Microdrive, Memory Stick and Memory Stick Duo, Secure Digital, MultiMedia, and SmartMedia cards, and xD Picture cards.
- Browse and import directly from iPhoto library.
- Capture images directly from tethered Nikon and Canon cameras.
- Native RAW import and editing of images from leading digital cameras and camera backs (.ARW, .CR2, .CRW, .MOS, .NEF, .RAF, .RAW, .SRW, .TIF, .OLY, .FFF, .3FR, .DNG).
- Compatible with all major still image formats (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, PDF, and PSD files without layer and alpha channel information).
- A high-performance database that lets you organize photos into projects and albums:
- Include up to 10,000 master images per Project with as many versions as needed.
- Create albums from any combination of images.
- Combine photos from multiple projects into album.
- Search using Smart Albums based on metadata queries.
- One-click archival and backup.
- Non-destructive image processing:
- Master image becomes locked digital negative.
- Editing tools - exposure, histogram, crop, highlights & shadows, sharpen, RGB channel mixer, levels, white balance, straighten, red eye correction, and noise reduction.
- Lift and Stamp tool to copy and paste adjustments.
- Seamless Photoshop integration with one-click export directly into Photoshop as .PSD or TIFF.
- Stacks let you group sequences of shots together, automatically group bursts and bracketed shots, manually stack alternate shots, and collapse entire shoots down to selects.
- Full-screen workspace for comparing images, viewing multiple images side-by-side, and simultaneously zoom multiple images.
- Digital Loupe tool for magnifying image.
- Digital Light Table for organizing images and creating comp layouts.
- File export that supports embedded ColorSync, ICC profile data, and IPTC metadata.
- Expert local printing of images, customizable contact sheets, light table comps, and proofs.
- Integrated layout and authoring tools for high-resolution book printing and one-click .Mac web publishing
- Professional interface designed for photographic work:
- Color-neutral UI palette.
- Adjustable background luminance.
- Customizable window layouts.
- Variable size thumbnails.
- Heads-up displays, tools, and controls.
- Full-screen mode for single or multiple displays.
- Comprehensive IPTC and EXIF metadata support:
- View, extract or add any metadata.
- Define custom metadata sets.
- Customize display of metadata throughout entire worfkflow.
- Add metadata automatically to batches on import.
- Embed IPTC metadata on export.
- Powerful Query tool for searching, sorting and sifting
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