Testseek.com have collected 39 expert reviews of the Apple Aperture 3.0 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Apple Aperture 3.0.
April 2010
(83%)
39 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Vastly improved slideshows; impressive new brushes; multitouch aware; ability to split and merge libraries; easy export to Flickr and Facebook
Sporadic reports of potential problems when upgrading older libraries; web page creation hasn’t been overhauled; need a powerful Mac and lots of RAM to run well
Abstract: Aperture 3 came out of nowhere. No warning, no pre-announcement, and no extended beta period as there was for version 2. You could almost think Apple was sneaking it out under the radar, unsure of its worth in the face of Adobe's continued onslaught wi...
The cumulative effect of Aperture 3’s new features, improved interface and simplified controls has opened the doors for another segment of photographers, namely those using iPhoto. At the same time, the addition of more sophisticated features such as b...
Excellent full-view mode with great added control; extremely useful brush adjustment tools for precise edits; handy preset Quick Fix modes with cool live preview; interfaces with third-party plug-ins from premium album companies; runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OSX Snow Leopard on Macs with Intel Core 2 Duo processors
Continuing bug issues including nagging program hang-ups; Faces and Places technology mostly a novelty; could use more HD editing capabilities for HD-DSLRs.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention some of my own bug issues I experienced while testing Aperture 3.0.2 (and its last-minute upgrade to 3.0.3.), For the most part, the program ran extremely fast on the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featured in Objects of Desi...
Maskable edits for most adjustments, Multiple adjustment instances, Excellent metadata handling and embedding, Places and Faces features are smartly implemented, Better library and RAW/JPEG management, Curves adjustment with arbitrary points and custom vi
Still some graphics instability problems in version 3.0.3, Interface can still feel heavy, Edge masking needs more control, Verdict, So good that I'd put up with the crashing to use it
If you glanced at the new features in Aperture 3, it would seem easy to pass off the audio/video and Faces and Places features as gimmicky things for hobbyists, but the value of these features will grow on even for hardened studio nuts. Seeing the pow...
Simple, clean interface. Excellent photo-organization tools, including Places and Faces (geo-tagging). Excellent camera raw import. Brush-on adjustments with edge detection. Tethering.
Resource intensive. No history window to see previous actions. No geometry correction. No Windows version.
With face recognition for organizing people pictures, smart geo-tagging, a rich plug-in ecosystem, and all the adjustment and nondestructive versioning and organizational tools you find in Lightroom, Aperture is a serious contender for the pro photogra...
New editing tools, including Brushes, let photographers do everything within Aperture. Places feature displays images on maps and lets you search by location. Many useful updates and additions. Takes advantage of 64-bit hardware. Overhauled slideshow tool works with video.
Brief slowdown can sometimes happen even on powerful Macs. Faces feature can also be sluggish.
With these great new editing tools, many pros won’t need to open Photoshop. And intermediate users will be able to do what they want without getting lost in the deep feature set--and can learn new photo-editing techniques without feeling intimidated.A...
Aperture is still a great program, in my opinion, and the budding photographer would be a lot better off with this than with iPhoto if they’re planning on doing anything more than collecting snapshots. I’ve gotten used to Aperture’s workflow and they ...
