Filed under, it’s never too soon.
This evening, without so much as a beating drum to alert the dogs of war, Apple fired a shot right across the bow of Adobe Photoshop’s dominion over photo editing.
Aperture is already my favorite photo organizing and fine-tuning software –it’s brilliant, and offers a seamless upgrade to the familiar iPhoto. What’s been frustrating however is the need to export to Photoshop to perform anything more than basic RAW adjustments to highlights, shadow, sharpness and re-touch.
Today, this all changed. Apple has released an example plug-in “Dodge and Burnâ€, and with it, demonstrated Aperture’s plug in architecture. Per this review, additional plug ins are in the works from Nik Software, PictureCode, and Digital Film Tools.
Sure we won’t be able to “paint†in it (and why would we), but if Aperture will shortly have access to the kind of plug-in library available to Photoshop, there may be virtually no need for Adobe in any professional photographer’s workflow. This is clearly one step further in Apple’s strategy to dominate their core “creative professionals” market. Remember when Avid/Adobe Premier owned film editing? Who is going to pick that over Final Cut now?
I’ve been playing with the version 2.1 now for a few hours and love the new functionality, but what’s got me more exited is the potential, I see a huge library of plug-ins on the horizon. So Aperture users, sound off, what plug-ins do you desire most? Me, top of the list, I want an HDR merge and tone-map plug-in, Right Now.
Written by Leigh McMullen on March 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Update Tuesday, and sure enough, we did get one. It just wasn’t the one that we expected. This new version of Aperture sees more than 100 new features added to the popular photo management and manipulation software.
Aperture has long been the program of choice for photo professionals due to its power and integration with the Mac operating system- which is already chosen by most media and graphic designers.
Aperture 2 straps on a new engine and user interface, with plenty of new tools for image editing. One notable new feature is the functionality to easily upload your whole portfolio to .mac, which can then be viewed on the web, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV.
This update can be purchased on the Apple store, for shipment in 1-3 days. If you recently purchased Aperture ‘1.5′, then you can upgrade for $10, as standard Apple policy. Further to this, owners of the original Aperture can upgrade for $100. Standard retail price is $200…
Written by Will on February 12th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Aperture and Aperture 2 and Apple and Photo and Photo Editing and Software and mac.
Update Tuesday, and sure enough, we did get one. It just wasn’t the one that we expected. This new version of Aperture sees more than 100 new features added to the popular photo management and manipulation software.
Aperture has long been the program of choice for photo professionals due to its power and integration with the Mac operating system- which is already chosen by most media and graphic designers.
Aperture 2 straps on a new engine and user interface, with plenty of new tools for image editing. One notable new feature is the functionality to easily upload your whole portfolio to .mac, which can then be viewed on the web, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV.
This update can be purchased on the Apple store, for shipment in 1-3 days. If you recently purchased Aperture ‘1.5′, then you can upgrade for $10, as standard Apple policy. Further to this, owners of the original Aperture can upgrade for $100. Standard retail price is $200…
Written by Will on February 12th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Aperture and Aperture 2 and Apple and Photo and Photo Editing and Software and mac.
Update Tuesday, and sure enough, we did get one. It just wasn't the one that we expected. This new version of Aperture sees more than 100 new features added to the popular photo management and manipulation software.
Aperture has long been the program of choice for photo professionals due to its power and integration with the Mac operating system- which is already chosen by most media and graphic designers.
Aperture 2 straps on a new engine and user interface, with plenty of new tools for image editing. One notable new feature is the functionality to easily upload your whole portfolio to .mac, which can then be viewed on the web, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV.
This update can be purchased on the
Apple store, for shipment in 1-3 days. If you recently purchased Aperture '1.5', then you can upgrade for $10, as standard Apple policy. Further to this, owners of the original Aperture can upgrade for $100. Standard retail price is $200...
Written by Will on February 12th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Aperture and Aperture 2 and Apple and Photo and Photo Editing and Software and mac.
