Doing Post with Aperture 3.0

Apple lent me a MacBook Pro a couple of weeks back to try out the latest version of Aperture. The timing was great since I was taking that photography class as well and I could do the post on Aperture 3.0 afterwards.

I’ve never tried Aperture before although I’m used to other photo editing softwares like Adobe Lightroom. Most of the time though, I’m okay with using Canon’s Digital Photo Professional.

I found several nice features that caught my attention while using Aperture 3.0. First one would be Faces, a face-detection and recognition tool (should be familiar to those who use Picasa).

You can easily organize photos by faces or names and when friends ask you for copies of photos with them in it, this feature will come in pretty handy.

Aperture also allows you to quickly and easily share or upload photos into your accounts on Facebook, Flickr and MobileMe.

It’s just one click away and all the finished/edited photos are published online.

Aside from the adjustment presets, it can do live previews — open a photo, select a preset and you are shown a preview of the how the photo would look like when the preset is finally applied. There’s no need to do the more tedious task of applying and undoing a present just to get that desired effect on a photo.

Even though this was my first time to use Aperture, I didn’t have a hard time figuring out how to use it. The layouts and UI were easy to understand and everything I needed was in plain sight. I would fumble here and there but that’s mostly because of my curiosity what the new features/tools can do.

There were so many other features I wasn’t able to try out (see complete list here) as I didn’t have enough time but the PhotoBooks and printing features is something I’d like to use more in future projects.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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10 Comments

Gerald says:

14 years ago

I wanted to buy a Mac just for this software. LoL. Too bad it’s only an Apple software.
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TDB says:

14 years ago

looks pretty neat!! cool!
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Movies to Watch says:

14 years ago

thanks for the tips, which one had a light file than adobe? I mean the installer size?
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Adrian says:

14 years ago

Aperture is the best editing tools, specially for beginners.
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Teknisyan says:

14 years ago

This is what’s nice about apple, their computer is more of a multi media lab than a mainstream pc. :)

Aperture is more of a photo organizer than a full blown editor like photoshop and paintshop but it does have a more advance editing feature than your average photo organizer like picasa.
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Nashyboy says:

14 years ago

it looks like Google’s Picasa :)
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Calvin says:

14 years ago

Aperture has more complex photo editing tools na hindi pinakita ni abe. yung mga brushes to change highlights, midtones, shadows, etc are really useful. and of course like lightroom, the ability to correct your white balance, changing tint and temperature, putting more fill light, recovery, etc.
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boo says:

14 years ago

most of the features you’ve tackled are also present in iPhoto. Is Aperture really worth the purchase?
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Kim Roa Endaya says:

14 years ago

Nice :D
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