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Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places Tagging Features

Beyond Faces and Places, does Aperture have as good a keyword tool as the Keyword Manager plugin on iPhoto? I find this indispensable. I would like to try Aperture but I would be afraid to move if I lost the keyword tool.
 
I moved from aperture 2 to LR about a year and a half ago and it was an absolute mission, so there is no chance i'm doing that again.

Besides LR is awesome. Apple should leave it to adobe.
 
kerryn said:
Beyond Faces and Places, does Aperture have as good a keyword tool as the Keyword Manager plugin on iPhoto? I find this indispensable. I would like to try Aperture but I would be afraid to move if I lost the keyword tool.
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Aperture has always supported a hierarchical tree structure for keywords...
 
kerryn said:
Beyond Faces and Places, does Aperture have as good a keyword tool as the Keyword Manager plugin on iPhoto? I find this indispensable. I would like to try Aperture but I would be afraid to move if I lost the keyword tool.
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Might be worth it to try out the 30-trial as soon as you can - nothing to loose if it isn't to your liking.
 
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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Oh I dunno. I imagine that photogs who shoot a lot of weddings with a lot of people would find this a handy way to organize after the shoot.

Although, I admit that while I'll use it because it's there, it certainly isn't any huge incentive. If that's all there were, I wouldn't upgrade. This, however. Yup. I'll upgrade.
 
miles01110 said:
If you're using Aperture you shouldn't have a need for Faces :-(
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I thought the same thing myself a while back but then had a project that it would have really come in handy back then. I'm a designer and I had a project a few months back where I was getting photo shoots from different photographers on different locations using a variety of models as well as a variety of clothing lines. Because of the projects constraints and the initial direction of the project, the photos I was receiving (which were in the hundreds) were mostly catalogued by location, by male or female models and by clothing style. Once we were way into the project, one of the models could not complete the campaign and had to be removed from all subsequent layouts, comps, etc. Having the face recognition would have been a nice and quick way to go through the many comps and layouts to quickly recognize and remove her as opposed to doing so manually.

If you work with models quite a bit, I can see an advantage to using it but I'm sure there would be other reasons as well.
 
kerryn said:
Beyond Faces and Places, does Aperture have as good a keyword tool as the Keyword Manager plugin on iPhoto? I find this indispensable. I would like to try Aperture but I would be afraid to move if I lost the keyword tool.
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Yes, aperture always had good categorization and organization tools. The biggest knock on aperture was its non-destructive editing capabilities. Now this seems to be bring them closer to LightRoom
 
maflynn said:
Yes, aperture always had good categorization and organization tools. The biggest knock on aperture was its non-destructive editing capabilities. Now this seems to be bring them closer to LightRoom
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Why is that a knock? It's why I love Aperture.
 
I'm going to install the trial version and see. I'm actually trying Lightroom 3 beta and will decide which to keep. I've never liked Aperture 2, hope this will be a nice update to try
 
robbieduncan said:
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.
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I tag people in my photos too - so that I can have smart folders with pictures of a certain person. Faces should make that much easier.
 
I've been waiting a looooooong time for a new version of Aperture! This is a worthy update. The adjustment brushes, edge detection, addition of saving presets and IMPORTING THEM make this absolutely worth it.

Going to buy now.
 
jessica. said:
Why is that a knock? It's why I love Aperture.
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Its a knock because prior to version 3, aperture did not have the depth and breadth of non-destructive editing that LightRoom had. They had to with the kludgy destructive plug-in approach. Now in version 3 they have enhanced non-destructive editing.
 
Lordedmond said:
notice the absence of a dvd slot in the MBP on the aperture 3 advert ?
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As far as I can make out the only shot of the right side of the MBP on the Aperture pages has got a DVD slot. IIRC, the unibody MBPs have all had right side loading DVD drives
 
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