SnapperTalk

Apple has created Aperture – a new application for pro digital photography. Although not yet released, it appears to be the Final Cut Pro of stills photography and is a very exciting development in an arena pretty much exclusively dominated by Photoshop and a few other applications.

It looks from the technical specifications that it is not intended to be a Photoshop replacement, but rather an all-in-one workflow application that they claim integrates seamlessly with Photoshop. And for minimal-manipulation photojournalism photography, it may even be the only application needed for a large proportion of such work. It has extensive RAW image support and EXIF/IPTC support, although I’d like to know if the captioning is fully compatible with the multitude of imaging systems out there. Let’s hope so.

At the moment it is only available for pre-order but the Aperture page on the Apple website has a lot of information on it.

UPDATE 31/10/05: Rob Galbraith now has an extensive page of additional information about Aperture.