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By: Apple News » Apple Programmer’s Blog Reveals New Aperture Team is Forming

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:15:49 +0000

[...] As it turns out, Apple is currently hiring programmers for Aperture. This means a better/faster Aperture 2.0 (hopefully).read more | digg story [...]

By: dave5 » Blog Archive » Aperture Team Asked to Leave

dave5 » Blog Archive » Aperture Team Asked to Leave — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:20:53 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Hmmm might not be the case. [...]

By: james

james — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:18:44 +0000

Hey, I just discovered the perfect editing supplement to Aperture:

Lightzone!

Ya’ll seen this? It’s in Apple’s own store. I like the $99 Retouch version.

Check it out. Perfect alternative to Photoshop for simple smart tools for masking and tweaking specific areas that neither Aperture nor Lightroom can do.

http://www.lightcrafts.com/

By: blake

blake — Sun, 07 May 2006 08:02:09 +0000

I’ve got DCJ watching my back…

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sun, 07 May 2006 02:47:20 +0000

That’s bogus Wasper, and I know about you and the CIA!

By: Wasper

Wasper — Sun, 07 May 2006 02:38:35 +0000

Blake, while I am delighted for you in joining Apple. I advise you keep it to yourself. Apple is very particular about it’s secret products. So watch out your job might be very short term

By: iomatic

iomatic — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:22:27 +0000

Allan: huh? FCP is, if not becoming, the defacto desktop editing suite for video workflow, gaining more ground than ever before.

By: Kuutio » Koodarin tie Applelle

Kuutio » Koodarin tie Applelle — Thu, 04 May 2006 10:17:33 +0000

[...] Viikko sitten Blake kertoi blogissaan aloittavansa tyÃ¶t Applen Aperture-tiimissÃ¤. [...]

By: dasmb

dasmb — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:16:07 +0000

Screw ArsTechnica. Photoshop is a great image editing tool, but its appeal is entirely based on its ability to perform really powerful granular operations. But it’s practically worthless for performing a large number of color corrections, contrast tweaks, noise reductions &tc and the types of operations it performs I only want to do on my BEST photos. I need a tool that can take a roll of 200 shots, let me perform a few basic functions on ALL of them, and allow me to pick out my best shots quickly.

Aperture, for all its bugs, slowness, and inscruitable and constricting storage system (come on, even iPhoto let me burn a god damned DVD backup and export a whole mess of libraries if I wanted to. I’d rather not have to buy a new hard drive every month when optical media, or rewrite all my web generator code to operate in Aperture) does this better than any program out there, including the Lightroom beta. There’s a lot of good there.

I wish you success. Aperture’s a noble, world changing piece of software that is good now but will take YEARS to perfect.

By: Allen Wicks

Allen Wicks — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:56:06 +0000

Aditya-

My 15″ PB G4 with 128 MB VRAM runs Aperture adequately. Since the GPU is key to running Aperture and Apple seems to be putting good GPUs in new MacIntel laptops I believe when the small form MacIntel laptops are out you will find they will run Aperture. If there is a GPU option be sure to buy the upgrade.

Note that a 12″ form is unlikely because new wide format requires a longer diagonal to achieve the same screen real estate as the previous 12 inch. New small size will probably be 13.3″ or so.

For me the issue with small PBs is lack of Firewire 800, since pro image management needs an external scratch disk for Photoshop and an external Library for images. I probably will be buying a 17″ even though I much prefer the 15″ form factor I have now.

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Blake-
Aperture is a great product in an important emerging/growing market space. Congratulations and good luck!