When Apple online store is down, there is always a chance that something new would pop up when it goes up. Same thing happened in the morning, Aperture 2 is for sale now. Aperture 2 ought to be the next major release of its professional photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful.  Priced at around $199 a piece, owner of Aperture 1 can upgrade for a tidy price $99. Happy photoediting, but to me nothing beats Photoshop.
New features include:

• Quick Preview mode — ‘for rapid-fire photo browsing’
• re-engineered database for the application to allow Quick Preview touted to be snappy even with half-million-image libraries.
• an all-in-one heads-up panel for Library, Adjustment and Meta-data controls.
• a selection of new tools: Recovery for blown highlights, Vignette & Devignette, Definition , Vibrancy and Repair and Retouch
• .Mac Web Gallery integration
• and ‘All Projects’ view, not dissimilar to iPhoto ’08’s ‘Events’ view
• improved RAW decoding

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