Add professional imaging
effects with adjustment presets.
In Aperture 3, you can instantly give your images a custom look or emulate a variety of processing styles with ready-to-use imaging presets.
Apply any combination of adjustment settings, including Auto Exposure and Auto Levels, with a single click.
Choose from dozens of ready-to-use presets, easily create your own presets, or import presets from friends and colleagues.
Adjust images using presets that emulate processing styles (such as cross-processing) and camera looks (such as instant, toy, or antique).
See the results of any preset in a live preview window before applying it to an image.
Navigate your entire
library with a full-screen Browser.
With its new full-screen Browser, Aperture 3 offers an innovative way to browse and navigate your entire library — no matter what the size — and quickly find your photos.
Take full advantage of your widescreen display to browse projects and image thumbnails in a clean, uncluttered, full-screen interface.
Use the Library Path Navigator to move among folders, projects, and albums, easily navigating even massive photo libraries.
Navigate all your projects, albums, and folders without leaving the full-screen Browser.
Double-click any thumbnail to instantly see the photo full screen
Use familiar iPhoto â™09 slideshow
themes. And more.
If youâ™re moving from iPhoto â™09, the slideshows you created with themes such as Snapshot and Shatter are preserved in all their brilliance. Aperture 3 includes all iPhoto themes and two new themes: Watercolor Panels and Photo Edges. Each theme gives you a professionally designed layout, title treatment, and transitions to create a distinctive backdrop for your photos. Choose a theme, drop in some photos and HD video clips, and produce amazing slideshows in seconds.
Combine photos, audio, and video clips in one show.
If your camera records video, you can import it into your library along with your stills and include it in your slideshow. Just drag a video clip into the slideshow as easily as you add a photo.
Create and edit layered soundtracks.
To personalize your slideshow, just add music from your iTunes library (DRM-free only). Then drop in audio clips stored in your Aperture library — voiceovers, narration, or other sounds recorded on location — for a multilayered soundtrack. If youâ™re including video in your slideshow, you can add the audio from the video, too.
Tap out the time of your fades and cuts.
Talk about fingertip control. With Aperture 3, you control the pace of your slideshow with the tap of a finger. As you watch the slideshow, press the Return key to determine when each slide begins and ends. As you tap out each slide change, Aperture 3 records your custom timings.
Add titles, borders, and colors.
When using the Classic and Ken Burns themes, you can add titles anywhere in the slideshow in your choice of font, size, and style. Choose borders and background colors. Scale photos. Even control fades and adjust transition times.
This update improves overall stability and performance, and addresses compatibility with iLife '11. It also includes a number of specific fixes in the following areas:
- Performance when opening large libraries
- Performance when exporting heavily-adjusted images
- Importing iPhoto Libraries
- Relinking to referenced images after importing an iPhoto Library
- Importing photos and videos from iPhone or iPad
- Upgrading libraries with images containing Spot & Patch adjustments
- Duplicate detection of audio and video files
- Face detection on RAW+JPEG pairs
- Rendering of thumbnails used in Faces view
- Rendering of images scaled to below 100% in Viewer
- Image quality on straightened images
- Applying Red Eye correction
- Rendering thumbnails when reprocessing masters
- Searching libraries containing a large number of keywords
- Applying photos to GPS track paths
- Export of GPS data when using Export Metadata command
- Handling of color profiles in Print dialog when using Loupe
- Applying and removing slideshow Photo Effects
- Slideshows containing video clips
- Tethered capture
- Library database reliability
- Library repair
- Updating vaults
The update is recommended for all users of Aperture 3.
Full details are available in the release notes for the update. Aperture 3.1 weighs in at 357.55 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or Mac OS X 10.6.2 or later.