Specifications:
Input
- Import images directly from cameras and storage devices
Compact Flash I, II and Microdrive
Memory Stick and Memory Stick Duo
Secure Digital, MultiMedia, and SmartMedia cards
xD Picture cards
- Drag files in from any volume (preserves Finder folder hierarchy)
- Browse and import directly from iPhoto library
File Formats
- Native RAW import and editing from leading dSLR cameras
CRW, NEF, TIF, CR2, OLY, DNG
- Compatible with all major still image formats
JPEG, TIFF, PICT, BMP, PNG, TGA, PSD(1)
Photo Management
- Work with thousands of projects
- High-performance database
- Organize photos into projects and albums
- Include up to 10,000 master images per Project with as many versions as needed
- Create albums from any combination of images
- Combing photos from multiple projects into albums
- Search using Smart Albums based on metadata queries
- One-click archival and backup
- Backup to multiple drives concurrently
- Aperture tracks backup status and location of all images
Image Processing
- Non-destructive image processing
- Master image becomes locked digital negative
- Create alternate versions without using extra disk space
- Photographer's Essential non-destructive editing tools
Exposure
Histogram
Crop
Highlights & Shadows
Sharpen
RGB Channel Mixer
Levels
White Balance
Straighten
Red Eye Correction
Noise Reduction
- Modify and suspend adjustments at any time
- Dust, spot, blemish, red-eye, and patch tools
- Lift and Stamp tool to copy and paste adjustments
- Use Stacks to manage alternate versions
- Seamless Photoshop integration
One-click export directly into Photoshop as .PSD or TIFF
Native support for flattened or single-layer .PSD files
Manage Photoshop-generated image versions
Compare & Select Tools
- Stacks
Group sequences of shots together
Automatically group bursts and bracketed shots
Manually stack alternate shots
Collapse entire shoots down to selects
- Full-screen workspace for comparing images
- View multiple images side-by-side
- Simultaneously zoom multiple images
- Compare Mode for selecting shots
- Digital Loupe tool for magnifying images
- Digital Light Table for organizing images and creating comp layouts
Output
- ColorSync color managed output
- On-screen soft proofing
- Embed ColorSync and ICC profile data during file export
- Embed IPTC metadata during file export
- Expert local printing
Images
Customizable contact sheets
Light Table comps
Proofs
- Gamma adjustment
- Black point compensation
- Order color-managed prints online
- Integrated layout and authoring tools for web
- Integrated layout and authoring tools for books
- Fully customizable template library
- High-resolution book printing
- One-click .Mac web publishing
User Interface
- Professional interface designed for photographic work
- Color-neutral UI palette
- Adjustable background luminance
- Customizable window layouts
- Variable size thumbnails
- Heads-up displays, tools, and controls
- Full-screen mode for single or multiple displays
Metadata
- Comprehensive IPTC and EXIF metadata support
- View, extract or add any metadata
- Define custom metadata sets
- Customize display of metadata throughout entire worfkflow
- Add metadata automatically to batches on import
- Embed IPTC metadata on export
- Powerful Query tool for searching, sorting and sifting
- Lift and Stamp tool for copying and pasting metadata
- EXIF Metadata Tags
- IPTC Metadata Tags
- Personal Metadata Tags
- Photo Specs Metadata Tags
- Photojournalism Metadata Tags
- Stock Metadata Tags
- Wedding Metadata Tags
1. Aperture supports only flattened PSD files without Alpha channels.
Recommended System
- Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 or faster
- 2GB of RAM
- One of the following graphics cards:
ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL or 6800 GT DDL
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE or 6600
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
- 5GB of disk space for application, templates, and tutorial
- DVD drive for installation
Minimum System Requirements
- One of the following Macintosh computers:
Power Mac G5 with a 1.8 gigahertz (GHz) or faster PowerPC G5 processor
17- or 20-inch iMac G5 with a 1.8 GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processor
15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with a 1.25 GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor
- 1GB of RAM
- One of the following graphics cards:
ATI Radeon x600 Pro or x600 XT
ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
ATI Radeon X850 XT
ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9600, 9600 XT, 9600 Pro, or 9650
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 or 9600
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE or 6600
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL or 6800 GT DDL
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
- 5GB of disk space for application, templates, and tutorial
- DVD drive for installation
