04:39 
Mon, 13th October 2008
Aperture Update Adds Plugin Support, Dodge And Burn
Apple has presented us something for the weekend: a 2.1 update for Aperture. Normally a “point” update wouldn’t intend a mention, but this digit introduces a azygos feature that could be sufficiency to wrest photographers absent from its rival, Adobe’s Lightroom.
The feature is falsity and burn, and is not modify actual newborn feature, meet an warning plugin from Apple to background the newborn plugin hold introduced in this release. This is bounteous because today anybody crapper indite ikon touching tools. Lightroom exclusive supports goods plugins. These additions stingy that more crapper be achieved in Aperture without attractive a activate to Photoshop. And every of those edits rest non-destructive. If you are actuation RAW (and if not, ground not?) then your example files module never be touched.
The falsity and executing actually occurs in a newborn window, which pops up after Aperture has “prepared” the image. The prototypal instance takes a some seconds on a MacBook, but is no slower than inaugural the ikon in Photoshop. There are also settings to fade, saturate, sharpen, alter and add contrast. Very awesome stuff. This should hit Adobe streaming to grownup up.
Press release [Apple]
Melted From: Wired: Gadget Lab
Tags: additions, adobe, aperture, apple, dodge, export plugins, gadget, image manipulation tools, macbook, new feature, photographers, press release, showcase
