Section A.3. Aperture

A.3. Aperture

If you own a very fast (think dual-core, and more is more) Mac with (at least) a gig or (better) two of RAM (think 4 MB) and you're thinking of investing $500 in Capture One, fuggedaboudit. Apple's new production processing and workflow software does more and does it at blazing speed. It is designed from the ground-up to perform all the workflow stages you need to perform for either instant high-volume (think news and magazine) or fast turnaround (think ad and publicity agencies) pros. Aperture also does everything Bridge does, as well as having the most essential functionality of Photoshop itself. Since it can be made to plug-in to Photoshop, you can still use all the esoteric Photoshop features as well.