Doing Post with Aperture 3.0

Apple lent me a MacBook Pro a couple of weeks back to try out the latest version of Aperture. The timing was great since I was taking that photography class as well and I could do the post on Aperture 3.0 afterwards.

I’ve never tried Aperture before although I’m used to other photo editing softwares like Adobe Lightroom. Most of the time though, I’m okay with using Canon’s Digital Photo Professional.

I found several nice features that caught my attention while using Aperture 3.0. First one would be Faces, a face-detection and recognition tool (should be familiar to those who use Picasa).

You can easily organize photos by faces or names and when friends ask you for copies of photos with them in it, this feature will come in pretty handy.

Aperture also allows you to quickly and easily share or upload photos into your accounts on Facebook, Flickr and MobileMe.

It’s just one click away and all the finished/edited photos are published online.

Aside from the adjustment presets, it can do live previews — open a photo, select a preset and you are shown a preview of the how the photo would look like when the preset is finally applied. There’s no need to do the more tedious task of applying and undoing a present just to get that desired effect on a photo.

Even though this was my first time to use Aperture, I didn’t have a hard time figuring out how to use it. The layouts and UI were easy to understand and everything I needed was in plain sight. I would fumble here and there but that’s mostly because of my curiosity what the new features/tools can do.

There were so many other features I wasn’t able to try out (see complete list here) as I didn’t have enough time but the PhotoBooks and printing features is something I’d like to use more in future projects.