Reaction to Updated Aperture

 Source: http://www.apple.com/aperture/whats-new.html#library

First off, this doesn’t appear to be Aperture 4, but nonetheless is a significant update.

Optimized for Retina Display

This is great for the lucky ones that are going to buy a new MacBookPro. I’m not one fo those. I have a very new MBP that will have to last me for a few more years. Having said that, I’m very curious to see how photos look. I expect it will be magnificent.

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Aperture 3 Updated!

It’s not the 4.0 we’ve been waiting for but here we go…

• Retina Display Support
• Aperture and iPhoto Unified Library
• Advanced White Balance
• Improved Highlights and Shadows
• Professional Auto Enhance
• Fast Browsing

Full description here: What’s New

More to come soon…

Update on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM by Joseph Linaschke

Thomas will be posting some thoughts as well, but here’s my short list (I have to leave in about 10 minutes, so…)

• iPhoto for iPad’s amazing White Balance (skin tone sampling) is now in Aperture. Funny to see a feature start at the bottom but that feature is nothing short of amazing
• Unified Library is a major architecture change, methinks. We will see how that affects performance.
• The Highlights and Shadows samples look amazing. Hopefully as good as they show here… it’s already a very powerful tool but not so easy to use.
• Professional Auto Enhance sounds great, and we’ll see what it does in the real world!
• I’m not sure how Fast Browsing is any different to what we already had. Says they are put “to even better use”, but it’s not clear what that really means. Probably has to do with the new unified architecture.

Tell us what you spot below!

Update on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM by Joseph Linaschke

What’s in a version number?

By the way, at the moment there’s no version number listed. It’s definitely not 4.0 but what is it?

Update on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM by Joseph Linaschke

Watch the MacBook Pro video at about 4:25 and see Aperture… it looks the same but of course is updated for Retina Display.

Something is Coming…

Watching WWDC live and there was a reference to a new Aperture while showing off the MacBook Pro Retina Display.

Things are looking up…

Removing a Curve Point in Aperture

Back in November, 2011 Joseph wrote about the new feature in Aperture 3.2 that added a new Auto-Curves behavior, and how to get Curves to act like it did in the previous version. As it turns out, if you don’t want the S, just option-click.

To take this even further, it’s possible to removes individual curve points with a control-click.

Removing a Curve Point

Control-click on the curve point to delete it.

To remove a curve point just mouse over the point in question and control-click. When you do, an action window will appear giving you the choice to reset the entire curve or to just remove the selected point.

Two New User Tips: Smart Album Verification and Importing CF Cards to the iPad

There are two great new User Tips up for your weekend enjoyment…

Simple Verification of Smart Album Searches by David Moore

Importing CF Cards to the iPad by Michael Ball

Both are very useful tips. I’ve used David’s tip to verify that Smart Albums are working several times, as it’s adds great peace of mind when verifying your own Library. And while I would need to upgrade my iPad to the 64GB model to even consider taking advantage of Michael’s tip on importing images from a CF card, it’s great to know that it’s possible to do so.