Aperture 3 Is Here – This Is It

Okay I just saw a tweet from a MacWorld article that Aperture 3 is here. This is it. I was right this morning. I felt it in my bones. Sorry for the quick rumor to validation cycle.

Update here is the Apple Aperture 3 Page

Update – i have been reading the new features this is what I expected it is awesome, library sync, there are a couple of headline features that I knew would be there from iPhoto but there is real meat here – not just fluff plus 64bit

Update: The org stuff is amazing more than I expected. IPTC core support – lots of metadata goodness that I really wanted and more. Write to master IPTC metadata – yes yes yes – this is an LR killer and a photomechanic killer. XMP import.

Aperture 3 is killer.

Update: The adjustments updates seem fantastic – local adjustments that look useful, tablet support, real curves, presets, really amazing stuff – this is a Lightroom killer.

Update: Video support – take that Lightroom. I didn’t think it would be there but it is.

Awesome new print tools, awesome new book tools, fantastic interface improvements to an already superlative product. I wonder what the LR yo-yo’s will say to this – They didn’t get it before – now what.

Update: I know some of you will be thrilled – larger fonts in the UI – I am not thrilled about that but everything else makes up for it – this is truly a killer upgrade.

54 Comments

RB says

09 February 10 at 3:29pm

Manu,

I my system it flies and I cannot wait until the 3 background jobs are done so I can see how it does without them competing for cycles/locks.

RB
Matthew B says

09 February 10 at 4:09pm

Sadly, out of the box, Faces, GPS, and automatic preview generation still ruin the 1st impression when it comes to speed.
David LaSpina says

09 February 10 at 7:37pm

@Matthew

iLife 09 was the same.. took me several hours to scan thru my library for Faces. So I guess it’s about the same for Aperture 3. Too bad they didn’t improve the speed of the Faces technology.

I was only using iLife 09 for Faces (pointing iLife to my Aperture dir and telling it not to move photos it imports) so I’m happy they added it to Aperture 3. …less than happy I have to wait thru the initial recognition process again, however…
Matthew B says

10 February 10 at 5:41pm

@David – Me too. I’m just tired of answering so many Lightroom users questions who “fire up aperture and find it to be soooo sloowwwwwwww” that they quit and never look back.

I’ve found “automatic preview generation” to be the cause of this 99% of the time

I’m really surprised Apple hasn’t been more up front about “the performance cost” of those default settings…