Aperture 1.5 Download Now Available

Sep
30

By: switchtoamac at: 7:59 AM on September 30, 2006 | Comments (0)

Announced earlier in the week, Aperture 1.5 is now available as a free 125 MB download to current Aperture users. Aperture is Apple's professional all-in-one post production photography workflow application used to manage RAW images.

New in Aperture 1.5:

Choose how you’d like to store images: copy them into a managed Aperture Library or store them on hard drives, network volumes, or CD/DVDs and have Aperture import them in place, creating a “reference” to their physical location while acquiring them for use in Aperture
Browse albums, Smart Albums, or your entire Aperture Library using the Media Browser in iLife ’06 and iWork ’06 applications
Generate industry-standard XMP sidecar files containing all metadata when exporting master images; or batch export metadata as a tab-delimited text file
Precisely adjust hue, saturation, and luminance on a color-by-color basis using the red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and magenta controls in the new Color tool
Hone sharpness with the new, luminance-based Edge Sharpen tool, which offers precise control and a three-pass algorithm
Create Metadata Presets to speed the assignment of any combination of metadata, eliminating errors and redundant typing
Use onscreen controls on the new Loupe to dial in magnification (100- to 1600%), select focus mode (follow Loupe or follow cursor), control Loupe size, and turn on/off display of Color values
Manage images (both copied and referenced) using new file-management tool for relocating and checking status of images in your Library

For a detailed in-depth list of new features, visit Aperture's What's New page. Note: Users must first update to Mac OS X 10.4.8 before installing Aperture 1.5. Users have two options to obtain the update. The first is to use Mac OS X Software Update utility the second is to download the update.