This is a good read. Rob Galbraith digs more deeply into Apple’s Aperture due later this month. In addition to looking at many of the features in more detail, Rob has some interesting conclusions about how the new app compares with other programs in this category. And he obviously concludes that Photoshop remains safe and sound, but seems to think this will be a great addition to many shooters workflow setups.
It didn’t take long. Both FrontRow (Apple’s 10-foot multimedia
interface) and PhotoBooth (another cute Mac app designed to take snaps
of a user a la an old school photo booth) have been modified to work on
most any Mac, not just the latest iMac with the built in IR/iSight.
Here’s a snap of yours truly using the ‘Pop Art’ filter via a G5 with an external iSight.
It wasn’t enough for Apple to surprise everyone with a Video iPod last week, a Windows-Media-Center-like iMac (interesting) and to begin offering network television broadcasts for download on the ITMS. Yesterday, in an event I wasn’t even aware of in advance, Apple took the lid off minor resolution enhancements to the current crop of Powerbooks (yawn), announced a new Quad-Processor G5 (wow), and released a new application called Aperture. This is what I’ve been waiting for.
As Sir Paul McCartney was prepping for his Live 8 performance, he realized that there was no arrangement at hand for the four french horns in the piece. With the help of Sir George Martin and a Mac laptop running Sibelius software, these missing parts were recreated and emailed across the pond in time for the performance.
