Aperture major update due for release

September 26, 2006

Aperture 1.5 for Mac is due out this week and Apple have given a few glimpses of its new features at a packed presentation in Köln.

It can now work with pictures wherever they reside, not just on a single drive as before
The adding of metadata on import has been streamlined
RAW photos can be exported with XMP-format sidecar files
Aperture Library contents are accessible from applications in Apple’s iWork and iLife suites
A developer’s SDK enables third parties to create custom export modules.

There are important changes to the image viewing and processing controls too, but the most compelling aspects of the new release involving importing, tracking, exporting and sharing pictures.