Photos on Mac features an immersive, dynamic look that showcases your best photos. Find the shots you’re looking for with powerful search options. Organise your collection into albums, or keep your photos organised automatically with smart albums. Perfect your photos and videos with intuitive built-in editing tools, or use your favourite photo apps. And with iCloud Photos, you can keep all your photos and videos stored in iCloud and up to date on your Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and even your PC.
Free download Aperture Aperture for Mac OS X. Aperture - The fun begins even before you finish importing your photos. Download third-party editing extensions from the Mac App Store to add filters and texture effects, use retouching tools, reduce noise, and more. Reset Adjustments When you’ve made an edit, you can judge it against the original by clicking Compare. The leading application for dealing with iPhoto duplicates is now also available for Aperture 3. Download now Buy now! The easy way to find duplicate Master images in Aperture 3. It's so easy to import images to Aperture that sometimes a duplicate or two occur. Eventually that can become quite a task to clean up.
A smarter way to find your favourites.
Photos intelligently declutters and curates your photos and videos — so you can easily see your best memories.
Focus on your best shots.
Photos emphasises the best shots in your library, hiding duplicates, receipts and screenshots. Days, Months and Years views organise your photos by when they were taken. Your best shots are highlighted with larger previews, and Live Photos and videos play automatically, bringing your library to life. Photos also highlights important moments like birthdays, anniversaries and trips in the Months and Years views.
Your memories. Now playing.
Memories finds your best photos and videos and weaves them together into a memorable movie — complete with theme music, titles and cinematic transitions — that you can personalise and share. So you can enjoy a curated collection of your holidays, friends, family, pets and more. And when you use iCloud Photos, edits you make to a Memory automatically sync to your other devices.
The moment you’re looking for, always at hand.
With Search, you can look for photos based on who’s in them or what’s in them — like strawberries or sunsets. Or combine search terms, like “beach 2017”. If you’re looking for photos you imported a couple of months ago, use the expanded import history to look back at each batch in chronological order. And in the Albums section, you’ll find your videos, selfies, panoramas and other media automatically organised into separate albums under Media Types.
Fill your library, not your device.
iCloud Photos can help you make the most of the space on your Mac. When you choose “Optimise Mac Storage”, all your full‑resolution photos and videos are stored in iCloud in their original formats, with storage-saving versions kept on your Mac as space is needed. You can also optimise storage on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, so you can access more photos and videos than ever before. You get 5GB of free storage in iCloud — and as your library grows, you have the option to choose a plan for up to 2TB.
Make an edit here, see it there. With iCloud Photos, when you make changes on your Mac like editing a photo, making a Favourite or adding to an album, they’re kept up to date on your iPhone, your iPad and iCloud.com. And vice versa — any changes made on your iOS or iPadOS devices are automatically reflected on your Mac.
All your photos on all your devices. iCloud Photos gives you access to your entire Mac photo and video library from all your devices. If you shoot a snapshot, slo-mo or selfie on your iPhone, it’s automatically added to iCloud Photos — so it appears on your Mac, iOS and iPadOS devices, Apple TV, iCloud.com and your PC. Even the photos and videos imported from your DSLR, GoPro or drone to your Mac appear on all your iCloud Photos–enabled devices. And since your collection is organised the same way across your Apple devices, navigating your library always feels familiar.
Resize. Crop. Collage. Zoom. Warp. GIF. And more.
Create standout photos with a comprehensive set of powerful but easy-to-use editing tools. Instantly transform photos taken in Portrait mode with five different studio-quality lighting effects. Choose Enhance to improve your photo with just a click. Then use a filter to give it a new look. Or use Smart Sliders to quickly edit like a pro even if you’re a beginner. Markup lets you add text, shapes, sketches or a signature to your images. And you can turn Live Photos into fun, short video loops to share. You can also make edits to photos using third-party app extensions like Pixelmator, or edit a photo in an app like Photoshop and save your changes to your Photos library.
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- LightBrilliance, a slider in Light, automatically brightens dark areas and pulls in highlights to reveal hidden details and make your photo look richer and more vibrant.
- ColourMake your photo stand out by adjusting saturation, colour contrast and colour cast.
- Black & WhiteAdd some drama by taking the colour out. Fine-tune intensity and tone, or add grain for a film-quality black-and-white effect.
- White BalanceChoose between Neutral Grey, Skin Tone and Temperature/Tint options to make colours in your photo warmer or cooler.
- CurvesMake fine-tuned contrast and colour adjustments to your photos.
- LevelsAdjust midtones, highlights and shadows to perfect the tonal balance in your photo.
- DefinitionIncrease image clarity by adjusting the definition slider.
- Selective ColourWant to make blues bluer or greens greener? Use Selective Colour to bring out specific colours in your image.
- VignetteAdd shading to the edges of your photo to highlight a powerful moment.
- Editing ExtensionsDownload third-party editing extensions from the Mac App Store to add filters and texture effects, use retouching tools, reduce noise and more.
- Reset AdjustmentsWhen you’ve made an edit, you can judge it against the original by clicking Compare. If you don’t like how it looks, you can reset your adjustments or revert to your original shot.
Bring even more life to your Live Photos. When you edit a Live Photo, the Loop effect can turn it into a continuous looping video that you can experience again and again. Try Bounce to play the action forwards and backwards. Or choose Long Exposure for a beautiful DSLR‑like effect to blur water or extend light trails. You can also trim, mute and select a key photo for each Live Photo.
Add some fun filters.
With just a click, you can apply one of nine photo filters inspired by classic photography styles to your photos.
Share here, there and everywhere.
Use the Share menu to easily share photos via Shared Albums and AirDrop. Or send photos to your favourite photo-sharing destinations, such as Facebook and Twitter. You can also customise the menu and share directly to other compatible sites that offer sharing extensions.
Turn your pictures into projects.
Making high-quality projects and special gifts for loved ones is easier than ever with Photos. Create everything from gorgeous photo books to professionally framed gallery prints to stunning websites using third-party project extensions like Motif, Mimeo Photos, Shutterfly, ifolor, WhiteWall, Mpix, Fujifilm and Wix.
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4/7/2009 Photomatix Aperture Plugin 1.0 released
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2/4/2009 Photomatix Pro 3.1.3 released
Photomatix 3.1.3 final release features important improvements and some bug fixes (see download page):
- Lightroom Plugin improvements
- Faster HDR generation
1/18/2009 Improved Version of the Lightroom Plugin released
6/8/2008 Photomatix 3.0.3 in German released
Photomatix 3.0
Photomatix has been our core tool for HDR and Tonemapping for more than a year. We have written many articles on this subject and it is a core part of our new workshops.
We checked the new Mac version. The main focus is clearly better alignment, improved Exposure Blending and workflow.
- For Mac from here
- For Windows from here
Improved alignment
Photomatix has now a much improved alignment option (second option). It is slower (because more complex algorithms are used) but also in some case way more precise. If one method does not work for you then it is always a good idea to try the other one.
Rules of thumb:
- From tripod: Try method #1 (yes even shots from tripod can be slightly misalligned)
- Freehand: Try method #2
Preview and settings dialog in different windows
The settings dialog, the preview and the loupe are all in their own windows and can be moved independently on screen.
Much improved Preview and Loupe for Tonemapping
The preview can now fill the whole screen (refresh takes of course a bit longer) and the Loupe can be showed at the same time as the preview.
New Preset-Management
The user can now define his own presets and save/load/remove them easily. We requested this new feature for a while and are quite happy with its implementation.
Improved Exposure Merging (covered in an extra full article)
Workflow Shortcuts
Using menus can slow down the workflow. The new 'Workflow Shortcuts' palette guides the user through the normal HDR process:
- Generate HDR Image
- Tonemapping
Other improvements
- Pinching artifacts reduced (slight change in the Details Enhancer algorithm to avoid the problem of 'pinching' artifacts showing along straight lines against a uniform background.
- On Mac you can drag&drop multiple files onto the Photomatix doc icon and it offers the option to merge these files (very nice feature). On Windows you drop it onto the open Photomatix application.
Conclusion
We find this a nice update for a very useful software. The workflow got clearly improved and the better alignment is what we waited for.
Highly Recommended