Apple Inc. Today announced the release of Aperture 2 an apple version of photo management / editing software. As innovative as Apple is Aperture claims to be next generation software specifically made for photo editing and management. Some of the key featuers of Aperture are :

• Auto Image Management Tool, just plug-in the memory card and let it manage the images for your by adding tags, meta tags, copyright & caption. You can even add rating to your images, store them at specific locations with the Auto Image Management tools in Aperture. Aperture keeps track of every photo. Organize photos logically in projects, folders, albums, and Smart Albums. If you are photographer who deals with 100’s and 1000’s of pictures every day this is the essential app to manage your photos. I know how imp is rating and tags it quite annoying to search for images when you don’t have them organized.
• After creating a library in Aperture you can review you images side by side, search by keywords, zoom and rest of the standard features
• Aperture has an image adjustment tool build into it just like the rest could not find something extraordinary into it.
• Exporting Images to flickr, publish to Mac Gallery, Create a book for print and order, or you can print with a 16bit printing.

So far apart from the Auto Image Management Tool rest seems quite same old, and cost to the product $199.00 for a new purchase or $99 for an update to the previous one. Keeping that in mind I think I will still stick with the Picasa which is free to use ….

Tags: Aperture, Apple, Applications, Mac, Photo Editing, Photo Management