Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 12)

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What is Aperture?
Aperture is a powerful, easy-to-use digital photo management system for organizing, adjusting,
archiving, and presenting high-quality photographic images.
In Aperture, you can:
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Work directly with your iPhoto library without having to import your iPhoto photos.
Important: To ensure library compatibility, make sure you upgrade both iPhoto and Aperture
to the latest versions.
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Import digital photos, audio files, and HD video files from cameras, card readers, and hard disk
drives in high-quality formats such as JPEG, TIFF, and RAW.
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Edit and adjust digital photos using intuitive image-processing tools for retouching, skin
smoothing, red-eye removal, color balance, exposure correction, and more.
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Work with your photos in RAW format, from capture through adjustment to final output,
preserving the highest-quality images throughout your workflow.
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Store photos, audio files, and video files wherever you want—in the Aperture library, on
multiple hard disks, or on other storage media.
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Work with multiple Aperture libraries, with the ability to switch from library to library without
closing Aperture.
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Catalog and manage thousands of photos and video files using flexible organizational tools,
comprehensive metadata support, and powerful search tools that let you find files instantly in
multiple locations, including hard disks, offline volumes, CDs, and DVDs.
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Export any part of your library, make changes to it on a second system running Aperture, and
then merge it back into the library of your primary Aperture system.
Aperture basics
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