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Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places Tagging Features

actually it is very good news!

niuniu said:
This is soo not the news we're waiting for :D
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Finally... now the adobe shills can shut up about Aperture being dead-ended.
I have been holding off Snow Leopard until Aperture was updated, and now have an excuse to upgrade my workstation as well.

While I have no need for faces/places, Aperture has been for a few years my major professional imaging tool of choice. Running at 64 bit is good news too, has Adobe bothered to do this for the mac yet? (trick question, of COURSE they have not). Adobe has turned their backs on the community they built their business on, so it is far easier to turn our backs on them as well. Just like the plodding upgrade for Intel, they are doing the same for 64bit. See their statement explaining why on PCs get 64bit...
michael
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"Photoshop CS4 for Microsoft® Windows Vista® runs 64-bit native.
In early testing of 64-bit support in Photoshop for Windows®, overall performance gains ranged from 8% to 12%. Those who work with extremely large files may realize noticeably greater gains in performance, in some cases as dramatic as ten times the previous speed.

The Mac OS 64-bit version is planned for a future release as a result of a change to Apple's platform strategy, which now requires a migration from Apple's Carbon technology to its Cocoa technology in order for an application to run 64-bit native. Before 64-bit support can be added on Mac OS, significant parts of Photoshop and its plug-ins must first be ported from Carbon to Cocoa. The Photoshop team began working on porting Photoshop to Cocoa as soon as Apple announced 64-bit support in Carbon was no longer part of its plans." (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/faq/)
 
Compile 'em all said:
I wonder what effect this will have on lightroom.
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I doubt it will have much impact on LR. In my mind, the big play here that is not happening by either of them is something that integrates the library into a home/small office environment. I use LR and love it. The only thing that would cause me to move off LR to Aperture is if I was able to store all my images on a NAS or small server and then have the library accessible from any machine in my home/office. As it is, I have to publish view-copies of my images if I want the rest of the people to even see them. This seems silly since LR has a library and preview images that are perfectly fine for viewing. Apple seems to be avoiding this whole "home server" space for some reason. The AppleTV and TimeCapsule are dabbling in that area, but neither seriously do it the Apple way. Before we see anything like that, we'll probably see a version of Aperture for the iPad. :(
 
My photo library is a mess right now. Half of it is on the old Windows machine and the other half is on my MacBook. I want a Drobo... :(

I hope this isn't the only update today.
 
So Pro Tools Update Day it is....
Aperture First.
MacBook Pro imminent?!
Lets hope so! That would give all them whining, left out high End users som relief.
MacPro Update soon.

What is about iLife X with 64bit. Seems overdue, too.

So much to update.... Hope they do it all today, would order iLife right away since i skipped on the 09 Update....
 
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I see little to no desire for faces. Its a feature that seems lame especially for the professional or serious amateur.

The increased editing capability is a welcome site and so with the presets.

I switched over to LightRoom and I've been happy with that, however I do miss the integration that apple has with its apps. I can easily include images on my iPhone, rapidweaver and other apps. LR does not have this and requires extra steps. While I was willing to live with the extra steps, because of the increased editing, this does potentially level the playing field (and yes I know LR is getting ready to be updated)

I tried downloading the trial but it wouldn't let me, I suppose I'm jumping the gun a bit
 
jessica. said:
No **** really? Leave that bunk ass **** to iPhoto.


Some ******* will say that Aperture is better because it has faces. :rolleyes:
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Got beef much? If you don't need it, don't use it! It will save those who use both applications from possibly having to use both and just use the one. Doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
 
Too little, too late

I wanted to go with Ap, but it was lagging behind. I moved to Lightroom, and glad I did. This is too little, too late and as an iPhoto user for home photos, faces stinks. Worthless. Sorry Apple -- I just got my third Mac the other day, but no way I'm getting the new Aperture.

(oh, you can keep your iPad, too)
 
maflynn said:
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I see little to no desire for faces. Its a feature that seems lame especially for the professional or serious amateur.
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I already tag all the images of people in my library. If Faces can do it automatically without sucking too much I might use it. I think the non-destructive brushes look like the best new feature though.
 
Anyone know if Aperture 3 includes RAW support for some of the newer digital cameras, like the Canon Powershot S90?

I've been using my S90 in jpg mode without raw support in Aperture for a while now and it's starting to get old! I see no information about raw support in the release though.
 
As a rank amateur, they fixed the biggest things that drove me crazy:

Customizable Project Order

Arrange projects, albums, and other library items appearing in the Library inspector in any order you want.

Specify Sort Order in Library Inspector

Use the new Library inspector to specify a default sort order for each folder or project in an Aperture library. This allows you to maintain a persistent sort order for folders and projects. You can create a custom sort order or have Aperture sort by name or date.


Video Support

Import, browse, and play back video clips — including HD video — from digital SLR cameras, point-and-shoot cameras, and digital camcorders.

Yay. :)
 
To bad for the others... I'm happy.

Aperture 2 was a nightmare for me and it couldn't be worst... crossing fingers for this one.
 
zorinlynx said:
Anyone know if Aperture 3 includes RAW support for some of the newer digital cameras, like the Canon Powershot S90?

I've been using my S90 in jpg mode without raw support in Aperture for a while now and it's starting to get old! I see no information about raw support in the release though.
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Two seconds of effort would let you check for yourself.
 
Typical. My 27" i7 with Aperture pre-installed arrived Thursday.

Aperture 3 is released today.

Apple customer care say they don't have a procedure in place yet to deal with people like me.
 
I like this update.

It seems Apple has preferred to add more features for the serious amateur, than the full-time professional. Faces is perfect for me, it would really save me a lot of tagging time.

Now just hoping it works OK in my old MacBook.:)
 
ThunderRobot said:
Typical. My 27" i7 with Aperture pre-installed arrived Thursday.

Aperture 3 is released today.

Apple customer care say they don't have a procedure in place yet to deal with people like me.
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...just goes to show, don't buy things when updates of any kind are rumored to be imminent! I hope that they get you your free upgrade, however.
 
SurfSpirit said:
And Still Apple Aperture Raw Support Sucks!!
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Thats because aperture doesn't handle the RAW processing, OSX does. Apple is very very slow in updating the RAW support and still leaves out a lot of cameras. I'm happy with it, only because my D70s is supported, I can see why people are frustrated by it.

Frequent updates was one reason why I went over to LR over aperture. Adobe has a better track record of updating LR, in contrast to apple with Aperture and RAW
 
nepo said:
The specs are higher?

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

2.53GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed; or 2.8GHz or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache
1066MHz frontside bus
4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
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:eek:
If it still has the Core 2 then count me out! :mad:
 
maflynn said:
Thats because aperture doesn't handle the RAW processing, OSX does. Apple is very very slow in updating the RAW support and still leaves out a lot of cameras. I'm happy with it, only because my D70s is supported, I can see why people are frustrated by it.

Frequent updates was one reason why I went over to LR over aperture. Adobe has a better track record of updating LR, in contrast to apple with Aperture and RAW
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It is worth noting that more cameras are now supported (see the link I posted on the previous page). But only in Aperture 3. Not in 2 :p
 
nepo said:
The specs are higher?

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

2.53GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed; or 2.8GHz or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache
1066MHz frontside bus
4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
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Those are the same specs as before, it just means they haven't updated that section yet.
 
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