Aperture 3 is here

Earlier this morning Apple’s site went down to update their store. Looks like they released a shiny new version of Aperture for us!

• Projects, Faces and Places – Now, Aperture has more tools for organizing your photos. Projects are similar to Events in iPhoto. Faces uses face detection and recognition just like iPhoto to identify specific people across your photo library. And with Places, Aperture now supports GPS data just like iPhoto. The Press Release cites support for “GPS enabled cameras, tracking devices or your iPhone photos.” It will be interesting to see the support available for tracking devices.
• Brushes – Aperture 3 comes with 15 Quick Brushes to apply effects efficiently to your photos. It can even detect edges to increase your precision when painting effects onto your image.
• Exporting – Aperture can now easily export your photos to Facebook or Flicker.  It can also export slideshows as HD videos with many options. These can even be exported directly to iTunes so you can share your work with others on an iPhone, iPod touch or soon an iPad.
• Other features – Aperture 3 now runs in 64 bit for machines running Snow Leopard with a Core 2 Duo processor.  There are also a ton more features that make importing, editing, exporting, backing up and pretty much everything better and/or easier.

I’ve only listed a few new features here, but there are over 200 new features present in Aperture 3. It’s available today for $199 or as an upgrade from a previous version of Aperture for $99. A 30 day trial is available on Apple’s site.

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