While I was testing and writing my reviews for the iMac Core Duo, iLife ’06, and iWork ’06; I had time to carefully look at Aperture. Aperture is Apples $499.99 program for digital professionals. while this program will currently not run on the Intel Macs, Apple is supposed to be making universal version of all of their pro applications by early May 2006 (this is not a long way to wait, however if you already have a copy of any of Apple’s digital pro applications, you may be able to “Cross-upgrade” your program to a universal version, starting at only $49.99 US. I was really impressed by the speed of Aperture (I was using a PowerMac G5, reviewed Here.). It is able to open “raw” images, and fix them almost immediately. I really liked the layout view, where you can arrange the images on the screen, just as if you would lay them out on a table. Some of the the other features include: the ability to create high-resolution books from the images in your library, full screen working, and viewing of images side-by-side. I really like Aperture, and hope that Apple keeps up the program!
