The color-managed workflow and flexible design tools are fast and powerful, whether you are working with RAW, JPEG, or TIFF images. It lets you create excellent prints, customized contact sheets, elegant books, and web pages as beautiful as the images you capture.

Aperture supports the RAW formats from all leading digital camera manufacturers and provides optimized support for such market leading cameras as the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, Canon EOS 20D, and Nikon D2x as well as the highly popular Canon Digital Rebel and Nikon D50. It also supports the Adobe DNG format.

Specifications

Input:
• Import images directly from cameras and storage devices
• Compact Flash I, II and Microdrive
• Memory Stick and Memory Stick Duo
• Secure Digital, MultiMedia, and SmartMedia cards
• xD Picture cards
• Drag files in from any volume (preserves Finder folder hierarchy)
• Browse and import directly from iPhoto library

File Formats:
• Native RAW import and editing from leading dSLR cameras
• CRW, NEF, TIF, CR2, OLY, DNG
• Compatible with all major still image formats
• JPEG, TIFF, PICT, BMP, PNG, TGA, PSD(1)

Photo Management:
• Work with thousands of projects
• High-performance database
• Organize photos into projects and albums
• Include up to 10,000 ³master² images per Project with as many ³versions² as needed
• Create albums from any combination of images
• Combing photos from multiple projects into albums
• Search using Smart Albums based on metadata queries
• One-click archival and backup
• Backup to multiple drives concurrently
• Aperture tracks backup status and location of all images

Image Processing:
• Non-destructive image processing
• Master image becomes locked digital negative
• Create alternate versions without using extra disk space
• Photographer¹s ³Essential² non-destructive editing tools
• Exposure
• Histogram
• Crop
• Highlights & Shadows
• Sharpen
• RGB Channel Mixer
• Levels
• White Balance
• Straighten
• Red Eye Correction
• Noise Reduction
• Modify and suspend adjustments at any time
• Dust, spot, blemish, red-eye, and patch tools
• Lift and Stamp tool to copy and paste adjustments
• Use Stacks to manage alternate versions
• Seamless Photoshop integration
• One-click export directly into Photoshop as .PSD or TIFF
• Native support for flattened or single-layer .PSD files
• Manage Photoshop-generated image versions

Compare & Select Tools:
• Stacks
• Group sequences of shots together
• Automatically group bursts and bracketed shots
• Manually stack alternate shots
• Collapse entire shoots down to selects
• Full-screen workspace for comparing images
• View multiple images side-by-side
• Simultaneously zoom multiple images
• Compare Mode for selecting shots
• Digital Loupe tool for magnifying images
• Digital Light Table for organizing images and creating comp layouts

Output:
• ColorSync color managed output
• On-screen soft proofing
• Embed ColorSync and ICC profile data during file export
• Embed IPTC metadata during file export
• Expert local printing
• Images
• Customizable contact sheets
• Light Table comps
• Proofs
• Gamma adjustment
• Black point compensation
• Order color-managed prints online

Integrated layout and authoring tools for web:
• Integrated layout and authoring tools for books
• Fully customizable template library
• High-resolution book printing
• One-click .Mac web publishing

User Interface:
• Professional interface designed for photographic work
• Color-neutral UI palette
• Adjustable background luminance
• Customizable window layouts
• Variable size thumbnails
• Heads-up displays, tools, and controls
• Full-screen mode for single or multiple displays