Where's Aperture 4?!
"Minor terminology changes, including "Original" instead of "Master" and "Info" instead of "Metadata" and that "Raw Fine Tuning is no longer displayed in the Adjustments panel by default"
- not to add to the conspiracy theories that apple setting up to ditch the professional market (I've been reading all the comments about the meaning of the "update" to the "new" MacPro) so this comment comes of the heels of that sentiment...
BUT, It actually bothers me a little that Apple is changing the word metadata to "info" the info IS metadata.. why dumb it down- it's supposed to be professional software... and I know I can add RAW fine tuning to my adjustments panel but again most professionals shot in RAW in the first place... why remove it by default? I just don't know where apple's priorities are anymore...
I agree; this feels like a dumbing down and an excuse to not bother with an update to Aperture 4 for another six months or more. Disappointing.
What's New in Version 3.3
- New unified photo library for both iPhoto (v 9.3 or later) and Aperture; no import/export required; Faces, Places, slideshows, albums and web sharing work across both applications
- Most ('pro') Aperture users don't even bother with iPhoto; only really useful for upgraders, hardly a highlight new feature.
- Support for AVCHD video has been added
- meh.
- Aperture now lets you use camera-generated previews for faster browsing of RAW files immediately after import
- this is better late than never frankly.
- Highlights & Shadows tool has been updated to deliver higher-quality results and work with extended range data
- appreciated but incremental improvement is the minumum I expect.
- A new Auto Enhance button has been added to the Adjustments panel
Auto meh.
- White Balance tool now includes Skin Tone and Natural Gray modes to simplify color balance
- may be handy but I use the eyedropper and more often my own judgement. Brushability will be handy in specific situations.
- Auto button has been added to the White Balance tool for one-click color balancing
- Auto meh.
- Set Desktop command has been added to Share menu so you can set a desktop background from within Aperture
- ha; whatever.
- A new Manual option allows you to drag and drop projects to customize sort order in the Projects view
- never noticed any need for this.
- New preference allows you to set the background brightness of the full screen browser
- one word: 'calibration'!
- Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe albums are now displayed as thumbnails in the main window when accounts are selected in the source list
- meh.
- Minor terminology changes, including "Original" instead of "Master" and "Info" instead of "Metadata"
- if you don't know what Master and Metadata mean then go back to iPhoto.
- Source list includes a new "Recent" section, showing Last Import and recently-viewed projects
- meh; for those with anterograde amnesia.
- Raw Fine Tuning is no longer displayed in the Adjustments panel by default
- Why?! Not only does this mean I'll have to turn this back on again it also means knew users won't be introduced to, understand or investigate the concept of standardised Raw adjustments that are applied to their files by the software and how this can be altered and that different programs can do this differently.
- Faces can now be named by dragging them from the Unnamed Faces browser to existing snapshots on the corkboard
Faces shmaces; nothing more than a system slow down device.
- The Faces corkboard now includes a menu that allows you to set the order of face snapshots
- mega meh.
- Newly designed monochrome source list and toolbar icons
-Good; this needed improvement. Still not a patch on Nik Silver Efex though I suspect.
- Addresses numerous issues related to overall performance and stability
- and there are numerous.
