An announcement from Apple Computer today will be of interest to photographers who use iPhoto and/or Aperture. For those unfamiliar with iPhoto or Aperture, iPhoto is primarily a photo cataloguing program for snapshots, while Aperture is geared for photo enthusiasts and professionals who require sophisticated controls for editing and cataloging.
If you are one who geotags photos, iPhoto '11 and Aperture 3.1 can create slideshows that interleave the photos with views of a map with automatically generated labels to show where the next photos in the sequence were taken. Personally I am not into geotagging, but if you are a geotagger, features such as this can help turn the data into something interesting.
The upgrades to iPhoto and Aperture lets people export them for Apple TV devices and, more important for photographers pitching prospective clients, iPads.
For you Facebook and Flickr users, Aperture 3.1 can export photos better than previous versions. For example, photos can be published directly to the Facebook wall, not just to its photo albums. The software can also retrieve Facebook comments on published photos.
Performance for both programs is better in a number of areas. Here is a short list of what is now or has been fixed:
Core editing controls for curves, levels and highlights and shadows are improved,
Zooming images to a 100 percent view,
Exporting images that have been heavily edited,
Importing large libraries of photos is now easier,
Straightening and cropping edited images.
I personally use iPhoto for snapshots and as a repository for personal or family images. I don’t do much in the way of editing or manipulating in iPhoto. I use Lightroom for my professional images.
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