Swad Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 At Apple's Photokina event in Germany this morning, the company announced an imminent update to Aperture, its impressive photo workflow app. There are a slew of new features coming in an update available later this week - here are a few of the more interesting: - "Run Aperture on any Intel-based Mac. Any desktop, including Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro. Or any notebook, including MacBook and MacBook Pro." (Previously the Macbook gave a resolution warning) - "Pause, adjust volume, manually step backwards/forwards through slideshows using the Apple Remote that comes with most new Macs." - New color adjustment controls let you "adjust hue, saturation, and luminance on a color-by-color basis via separate Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow controls." - The ability to "save individual exposure or white balance adjustments as presets in the Adjustments Inspector and Adjustments HUD." - New library management features, including iPod integration. - New extensibility, shipping with several plugins including flickr. Although it was predicted (or, more accurately, hoped) that Apple would announce Core 2 Duo notebooks, no such announcement was given. At least that's what we hear. We're not so good with German. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 New video on the features: http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktours/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_4e Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Awesome. Thanks for the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 nice, but would it be worth paying for if you're not really a professional photographer? just maybe an interested hobbyist with lots of pics. would aperture really offer that much more functionality over iphoto to justify the price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 has anyone noticed what truly strange accents the narrator of the video is using? it seems to cycle from Standard Midwestern to mild British, moves on to American Southern, Australian, really subtle Norwegian, Texas drawl. it's subtle, unnatural, and it freaks me out. it might even be artificial! some new tweaked leopard voice? yes, i'm serious. cool update as well, hope it's not completely dependent on SSE3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Is it just me, or does Aperture look like it has the new iTunes 7 GUI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMaurice Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Is it just me, or does Aperture look like it has the new iTunes 7 GUI? i knew it wasnt just me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non sequitur Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 the guys voice is creepy, and i also noticed the iTunes esque gui. not a big fan of it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Its not the 'iTunes interface' - its the darkened Apple Pro Apps interface, which has been around for quite a while. See Final Cut Pro etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Aperture 1.0 really had the standard "Apple Pro" theme. Aperture 1.5 has a significantly lighter UI that actually does a bit like iTunes 7. I think we might start to see this trend increase throughout new applications. However, Aperture hasn't adopted the ugly matt scroll bars that iTunes now has. Aperture 1.0 Aperture 1.5 Still no download link for those of us upgrading from 1.0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 So, why nobody speaks about the Photonokia-show? p.s: how do I do to open a new thread in this forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I stand corrected. Thanks Takuro EDIT: Very insightful article on Ap1.5 here: http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/24732.html 'Relocate Masters' is, to me, an absolutely killer feature - here's why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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