Apple releases Aperture 2.1
Look out Photoshop, you just got some more competition.
Here’s a story from Domain-b.com:
Apple released the latest edition of its popular image processing software Aperture on Friday. The first version of this software program, designed to assist professional photographers in post-production work, had been released in November 2005.
Several later versions and updates were also released, with the Aperture 2.0 edition making its debut in February 2008. This was immediately followed by version 2.0.1 to addresses issues related to the performance and overall stability of Aperture 2.0.
Now Apple has announced the release of Aperture 2.1 which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy for photographers to use specialized third party imaging software right from within Aperture, available as a free download to customers of Aperture 2.0.
It features the Apple-developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten), burn (darken), contrast, saturation, sharpen and blur. Over the coming months, third party software developers will deliver image editing plug-ins for localized editing, filters and effects, noise analysis and reduction, fish-eye lens correction and more.
Personally it’s going to take a lot from Apple if they ever want to bust the strangle hold that Photoshop has on everyone. Personally, if I’m familiar with a program I’m going to stick with it, even if there’s another thing on the market they may offer one or two different features. That’s probably because I’m a stubborn goat, but I think that’s how most people operate with software (why else do so many people have Window’s Vista?).
But what do you think? Anyone going to use the new Aperture?
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