Apple Releases Aperture 3

Finally, Apple’s Aperture brings Presets and Faces to Aperture.

There are over 200 new features in Apple’s Aperture 3. There are a few that I’m excited about:

Faces: I have used Faces – Apples facial recognition system – for creating collections of images tagged by name in iPhoto. The technology is amazing. Essentially, you select a face, add a name to the face, and the software easily creates unique collections using facial recognition.

Presets: I left Aperture 2 for Adobe Lightroom because Aperture 2 did not support presets. I am a wedding photographer that uses presets sparingly. I tend to use presets to make slight bulk adjustments to groups of images. The addition of presets in Aperture 3 will allow for an entirely new market of presets that will, essentially, make post-production workflow using Aperture much improved.

Brushes: Again, Aperture is simply catching up to Lightroom with Brushes. Much needed and much improved.

I ordered my trial version of Aperture here and am excited to test out the new features for Aperture 3.