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At the PMA trade show in Orlando today, Apple unveiled a significant update to their professional photo editing program, Aperture.

Version 1.1, which will ship in March, will bring many user-requested features to the application. The update, which will be free to 1.0 users, will be made available when Apple updates its suite of Pro applications, making them available on the Intel processor Macs. The update for Aperture will work with both PowerPC based Macs (G4, G5) and Intel based Macs (currently Intel based iMac and MacBook Pro).

We’ll have the official press release as soon as it’s available, but in a private hands-on meeting this morning Apple Product Managers showed off the new software to PDN.

Changes to this version revolve first around the issue of raw processing. Thanks to feedback from PDN users, Apple was able to massively enhance their raw processing engine, providing a level of raw quality they feel is equal to or superior to other systems. While they acknowledge that some users might prefer the default conversion of other systems, they’ve gone out of their way to bring new power to raw processing.

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