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Apple has released Aperture v 3, its professional photo management and raw conversion application only for Mac.

Announced improvements/additions should be more than 200 (Apple said), where notable ones are the following:

  • a new non-destructive brush with automatic edge detection (similar to Adobe Lightroom brush with auto-mask feature);
  • adjustment presets;
  • full-screen view:
  • new slideshow with support of video (also HD), what is still missing in Adobe Lightroom v2 and beta1 of version 3;
  • a new Faces and Places option for respectively Face detection and geotagging.

The new version costs 199 $ (in the US) or 99$ for upgrade from previous versions.

Full announcement on Apple website at this link.