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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.
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Import digital photos, audio les, and HD video les 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 nal output,
preserving the highest-quality images throughout your workow.
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Store photos, audio les, and video les 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 videos using exible organizational tools,
comprehensive metadata support, and powerful search tools that let you nd les instantly in
multiple locations, including hard disks, oine volumes, CDs, and DVDs.
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Export any part of your library, make changes to it on a second Aperture system, and then
merge it back into the library of your primary Aperture system.
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Process your photos nondestructively. Aperture protects your original image les and uses
built-in safeguards to help ensure that you don’t accidentally overwrite or modify originals.
Aperture Basics