User guide
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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 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 workow.
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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 video les using exible organizational tools,
comprehensive metadata support, and powerful search tools that let you nd les instantly in
multiple locations, including hard disks, oine 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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