danieldk
02-14-2010, 11:52 AM
I was a happy Aperture (http://www.apple.com/apperture) 2 user. I am not a professional photographer, but I like to make short but nice photo impressions of holidays and trips. Before, I used iPhoto, but after seeing my brother in action with Aperture 2, I was absolutely convinced that I wanted it too ;). So, I bought a new copy of eBay for roughly half the price.
Last week Aperture 3 was released. On the list of features I saw two recent iPhoto features that I absolutely wanted:
Support for geocoding
Face recognition
And as an additional nicety, it now has integrated support for Flickr, MobileMe, and Facebook (I previously used a third-pary Flickr plugin).
Of course, there are better filters, better brushes, etc., but I guess I will discover them slowly, since I am not a professional photographer, and changes that I most often make are to correct for over/under-exposure and making colors more vivid when necessary.
The new features got me hooked very quickly. I have been geocoding some of the photo albums. This screenshot (http://www.danieldk.dds.nl/screenshots/aperture/aperture3-locations.png) nicely shows the map, where I can select locations to see pictures associated with that location. My iPhone has GPS, so geoinformation will be used there automatically, but for my normal camera I enter the locations manually (which is really easy with the search function). You can also make GPS tracks, etc. so that you can plot walking/cycling/driving routes and attach photos to locations along the path.
The faces feature works as expected, and recognizes and suggests names for faces in newly imported pictures. I didn't try Flickr export or any other new features yet.
All in all I liked faces/geocoding so much that I already bought the update. But I will keep you posted on my experiences with Aperture 3 as I use it :). In the meanwhile: you can download a thirty-day trail from the Apple website. Use one of the manuals or video tutorials, since in the beginning the interface can be a bit overwhelming (since it is oriented at professional photographers), but I think most people will quickly like it.
Last week Aperture 3 was released. On the list of features I saw two recent iPhoto features that I absolutely wanted:
Support for geocoding
Face recognition
And as an additional nicety, it now has integrated support for Flickr, MobileMe, and Facebook (I previously used a third-pary Flickr plugin).
Of course, there are better filters, better brushes, etc., but I guess I will discover them slowly, since I am not a professional photographer, and changes that I most often make are to correct for over/under-exposure and making colors more vivid when necessary.
The new features got me hooked very quickly. I have been geocoding some of the photo albums. This screenshot (http://www.danieldk.dds.nl/screenshots/aperture/aperture3-locations.png) nicely shows the map, where I can select locations to see pictures associated with that location. My iPhone has GPS, so geoinformation will be used there automatically, but for my normal camera I enter the locations manually (which is really easy with the search function). You can also make GPS tracks, etc. so that you can plot walking/cycling/driving routes and attach photos to locations along the path.
The faces feature works as expected, and recognizes and suggests names for faces in newly imported pictures. I didn't try Flickr export or any other new features yet.
All in all I liked faces/geocoding so much that I already bought the update. But I will keep you posted on my experiences with Aperture 3 as I use it :). In the meanwhile: you can download a thirty-day trail from the Apple website. Use one of the manuals or video tutorials, since in the beginning the interface can be a bit overwhelming (since it is oriented at professional photographers), but I think most people will quickly like it.