Aperture Interview
Over at the Inside Aperture blog, Derrick Story interviews Apple’s Joe Schorr about Aperture 2.0.
My first impressions: The speed boost is very significant across the board—and the Straighten Tool wins the award for most improved user experience. The changes in RAW decoding appear to be huge, even for older cameras like my trusty Canon EOS 20D—and I much prefer the default 2.0 decode over its 1.1 predecessor. The Retouch and Recovery features are welcome additions, and both work reasonably well. But, alas and alack, the web galleries still suck: While 2.0 offers iPhoto-style .Mac galleries, the standard galleries (now called Web Pages) suffer from all the problems previously discussed here and here.
On the whole, a very worthwhile upgrade.
February 20, 2008 #