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   Aperture 3.3

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   With the release of [1]Aperture 3.3, Apple ties together its
   professional photo organizer and editor more closely with iPhoto '11
   thanks to a new unified library. You can now move images back and forth
   between Aperture and iPhoto without having to manually import and
   export photos, and the two apps share Faces, Places, slideshows, and
   albums. The new release is also optimized for the new MacBook Pro with
   15.4-inch Retina display (see "[2]New MacBook Pro Features Retina
   Display, Flash Memory," 11 June 2012). Aperture 3.3 also adds a number
   of new features, including support for AVCHD video, Skin Tone and
   Natural Gray modes added to the White Balance tool, an improved
   Highlights & Shadows tool, and an Auto Enhance button added to the
   Adjustments panel. The user interface has also been tweaked, adding a
   new manual option to customize the sort order in the Projects view via
   drag and drop, displaying Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe albums as
   thumbnails when accounts are selected in the source list, and modifying
   some terminology ("Original" instead of "Master" and "Info" instead of
   "Metadata"). ($79.99 new in the [3]Mac App Store, free update, 528 MB)

References

   1. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1540
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/13055
   3. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aperture/id408981426?mt=12

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