As a photographer, you know all about the benefits of shooting RAW. With accesss to all the data your digital SLR can record, you’re capturing images of startling quality, great dynamic range, and virtually no noise. And now, for the very first time, you have an application that provides you with more control of the final image than you’ve ever had before. One that actually makes working with RAW files as easy as working with JPEGs. That application? Aperture.
No conversion necessary
Providing the very first all-in-one tool for your post-production needs, Aperture lets you work with RAW images through every step of the digital workflow without first having to convert your images into another format to make necessary image adjustments, eliminate red-eye, remove dust, crop, organize images, or print contact sheets.
Aperture provides you with the tools to do it all — import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your photographs — in a RAW-focused workflow that’s the first of its kind.
Rather than using another application to manage your images, Aperture offers built-in project management with robust and flexible tools that make it easy to handle thousands of projects.
They include a powerful suite of tools for editing a photo shoot. It’s one of the most tedious jobs any photographer faces, and it’s been particularly taxing when shooting RAW. But Aperture provides tools specifically designed to work with RAW files and to speed you through the process of sifting through thousands of images, culling the rejects, comparing the keepers, and identifying your absolutely finest photographs.
Nor do you have to convert your images in order to make needed adjustments. You can perfect them without having to leave Aperture, using a powerful suite of nondestructive image editing tools.
The tools — including Levels, White Balance, Exposure, Sharpening, Noise Reduction and more — afford you the freedom to experiment without having to worry about damaging your valuable original images. That’s because Aperture applies modifications only to “versions” of your images and never to the original “master” images themselves.
Built into Aperture’s advanced RAW workflow is the ability to produce an impressive body of print and online publications. Working directly with your RAW images, you can create color-accurate prints, custom contact sheets, stunning websites, and unique bound books. Of course, Aperture provides a robust set of tools to create them, tools so intuitive and powerful you won’t know how you ever got along without them.
Blazing speed
Fine-tuned to maximize the advantages offered by Macintosh hardware and Mac OS X Tiger, Aperture offers breakthrough speed and quality — whether you’re working with RAW, JPEG, or TIFF images.
Supporting the RAW formats from many leading digital camera manufacturers (including Canon and Nikon), Aperture provides optimized support for such market leading cameras as the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, Canon EOS 20D, and Nikon D2x as well as the highly popular Canon Digital Rebel and Nikon D50. It also supports the Adobe DNG format.
