It’s a nice enough trick and not a bad way to find a specific project or image. Run the mouse over a project and the thumbnail displays each of the images in the project in sequence (you can select a Key Photo that is the default image that appears in the thumbnail). Anyone familiar with the Events view in iPhoto ( ) will feel right at home with this feature, in which each of the projects in the library is represented by a thumbnail.
This last feature is customizable: within Aperture’s preferences, you can set double-clicking as a way to toggle between full screen and windowed mode, though I far prefer the default of pressing “F” on the keyboard to accomplish this.Īnother addition is the new All Projects view. I also like the ability to double-click on an image in the Browser or Viewer to display it in Viewer only mode, then double-click on the image again to return to Browser and Viewer mode. It’s the kind of tweak to Aperture’s interface that users will really enjoy. In the same vein, pressing “V” on the keyboard cycles through Browser, Browser and Viewer, and the new Viewer only mode. Now, in Aperture 2, I just press “W” on the keyboard to cycle through the inspectors, and I’m getting used to (and liking) having all the inspectors unified in one part of the screen. I constantly toggled combinations of the three inspectors on and off, never needing two at the same time. On a 20-inch screen, there wasn’t enough space for image editing. The Metadata Inspector could be toggled on and off to fill part of the Adjustment Inspector’s panel. The interface in previous versions of Aperture had the Browser in the middle, with the Projects Inspector on the left side and the Adjustments Inspector on the right side. The interface changes may seem simple but they make longtime Aperture users like myself happy. Full screen mode gets the same upgrade: all three Inspectors combined in a single heads up display.Īperture 2 has a cleaner layout that combines the Projects, Metadata, and Adjustments inspectors. The Projects, Metadata, and Adjustments Inspectors are tabbed and take up less space than in previous version, which leaves more room for actually working on images.
To top it off, Aperture’s price drops from $299 to $199 ($99 to upgrade).Īperture’s updated interface cuts down on the clutter and is a pleasure to use. The new version features added tools, a streamlined interface that is both familiar yet tweaked for a much better workflow, and improvements in workflow-related speed (loading images, rendering adjustments, toggling between views, etc). In the meantime, competitors such as Bibble and Adobe Lightroom ( ) got the attention of many photographers.Īperture 2.0.1, however, is the program photographers wanted all along-when you use the new Aperture, it’s obvious that Apple listened its users.
Version 1.5 was released over a year ago, and during this interval, the professional photographers and advanced amateurs who use Aperture settled for the small updates to 1.5, and at the same time grumbled for a major update.
When Apple released Aperture 2, the general sentiment about all the new features in this professional photo management program was one of excitement-and puzzlement, because of how long it took for a major upgrade from Aperture 1.5 ( ) to appear.