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Ability to simultaneously zoom and pan multiple images. Supports importing from USB and FireWire memory card readers or directly from a camera connected via USB. Native support of the Adobe Photoshop PSD, PNG, JPEG and TIFF formats. Light Table, a type of freeform workspace. Loupe, allowing viewing of images at zooms from 50% to 1600%. Stacks (for grouping photos) and Versions (for making multiple working copies of the same image). Autostacking, a way to group photos based on the time between shutter clicks. Project management, with extensive metadata and searching support. Lens correction tools, such as chromatic aberration. Many image adjustment tools including specific color retouching, a luminance based edge sharpener, and spot repair. Raw Fine Tuning, allowing versions of raw decode to be managed over time and conversion parameters adjusted. Master image files (raw or otherwise) may be kept in place on import or migrated into the Aperture library. Supports tethered shooting from Nikon and Canon DSLRs. Complete raw image format support from import to export (for supported cameras). Mojave was the last version of macOS to officially support Aperture, as the release of Catalina on Octodid not support the app, however, a third party modification allows Aperture's final version to run on macOS Catalina and newer.
Aperture was discontinued and removed from sale on April 8, 2015.
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Aperture 3.6, a final update adding compatibility with OS X Yosemite, was released on October 16, 2014. On June 2, 2014, Apple announced Photos as a replacement for Aperture and iPhoto.
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The software handled a number of tasks common in post-production work such as importing and organizing image files, applying corrective adjustments, displaying slideshows, and printing photographs.įeatures of Aperture included non-destructive editing organization of photographs by keyword, faces (using face recognition), and places (using GPS metadata embedded in image files) brushes for applying effects (such as dodge and burn, skin smoothing, and polarization) and exporting to Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, and iCloud. It was first released in 2005 and was discontinued in 2015. Aperture was an image organizer developed by Apple for the macOS operating system.