Aperture (software)

Developer(s)Apple Inc.
Initial releaseNovember 30, 2005 (2005-11-30)
Final release
3.6 / October 16, 2014 (2014-10-16)
Written inObjective-C
Operating systemmacOS
TypeImage organizer, image editor
LicenseProprietary
WebsiteHomepage at the Wayback Machine (archived April 7, 2015)

Aperture is a discontinued professional image organizer and editor developed by Apple between 2005 and 2015 for the Mac, as a professional alternative to iPhoto.

Aperture is a non-destructive editor that can handle a number of tasks common in post-production work, such as importing and organizing image files, applying adjustments, and printing or exporting photographs. It can organize photos by keywords, facial recognition, and location data embedded in image files, it offers brushes for applying effects such as dodge and burn, skin smoothing, and polarization, and it can export to Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, and iCloud.[1][2][3][4]

At WWDC 2014, Apple announced that its Photos app would replace Aperture and iPhoto. The final release of Aperture, version 3.6, was released in October 2014, and subsequently discontinued and removed from sale on April 8, 2015.[5] Although support for 32-bit apps, including Aperture, was removed in macOS Catalina,[6] a patch created by an external party allows Aperture 3.6 to function on newer versions of macOS.[7]

  1. ^ "Apple Aperture 3 Review and User Guide by Ken Rockwell". kenrockwell.com. November 12, 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  2. ^ "Apple Aperture 3 review". TechRadar. Future US. March 27, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  3. ^ "Aperture 3: The Ars Review". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. March 18, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  4. ^ "Lightroom vs Aperture – all the Features Compared". technologyformedia.wordpress.com. Self-published. February 13, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  5. ^ Fingas, Roger (April 10, 2015). "Aperture, iPhoto disappear from Mac App Store following Photos debut". AppleInsider.
  6. ^ "Apple Aperture Won't Work Anymore After macOS Mojave". PetaPixel. April 30, 2019.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Retroactive was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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