Aperture (software)
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Aperture 3 running on OS X Mavericks
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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Initial release | November 30, 2005 |
| Last release |
3.6 / October 16, 2014
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| Development status | Discontinued; replaced by the Photos application in OS X Yosemite |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | OS X |
| Type | Photo post-production |
| License | Proprietary |
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Archived April 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. (Apple has made the link www |
Aperture was a photo editing and management computer program developed by Apple Inc. for the OS X operating system, first released in 2005, and now discontinued from the Mac App Store. The software handles a number of tasks common in post-production work such as importing and organizing image files, applying corrective adjustments, displaying slideshows, and printing photographs.
Features of Aperture include non-destructive editing, organization of photographs by keyword, faces (using face detection and recognition), and places (using GPS metadata embedded in image files), brushes for applying effects (such as dodge and burn, skin smoothing, and polarization), and exporting to several popular websites, including Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, and Apple's iCloud. The program has been widely reviewed by independent parties.
On June 2, 2014, Apple announced Photos as a replacement for Aperture and iPhoto. Aperture 3.6, a final update adding compatibility with OS X Yosemite, was released on October 16, 2014. Aperture was discontinued and removed from sale on April 8, 2015.
Aperture 2.0 was released on February 12, 2008 with a reduced US price of $199. This can be compared with the $499 price tag of version 1.0.
Aperture 3.0 was released on February 9, 2010. and was the first version of Aperture to require an Intel-based Macintosh computer (previous versions could run on PowerPC based systems). With the launch of the Mac App Store on January 6, 2011, Apple started offering Aperture 3.0 through the store at a reduced US price of $80. Apple claims more than 200 new features are included in version 3.0 and cites the main enhancements as follows:
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