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In this movie, I'm going to talk about what's new in Version 2 of Aperture. Apple released a major update of Aperture, Version 2 that is, followed shortly by Version 2.1. The updates were designed to make Aperture work even faster and more powerfully. The changes were made in response to feedback from photographers. The Aperture team really does listen to input. Some of the changes involve behind-the-scenes improvement that simply result in you being able to work faster and do things like put up to a hundred thousand images in each project, as well as an improved database that enables faster searching. Exporting is now done in the background so you can continue working and some of the changes were streamlining the interface to make it easier and less intrusive. Technically there are over a hundred improvements. I'm only going to highlight some of the main ones. A Quick Preview Mode was added. You can access it from this button right here. This is the Regular Mode and this is Quick Preview. Quick Previews make it much faster to go through tons of images. Previously Aperture had to generate a thumbnail for each file before you could see it. That meant you had to wait to see the images after you downloaded them. Now, with the Quick Previews, you can quickly scan through all the images because Aperture's using whatever JPG is available to it to generate the Quick Preview. Many cameras actually include a JPG within the raw file. The preview may not be quite as accurate since it's using JPG settings and not the raw settings you've selected, but it's good enough to let you know whether you want to look further at the image or if you want to delete it. Of course your adjustments are disabled while Quick Preview is on. Click the Quick Preview Off or the P Button and you're back to your Full Preview with full access to your adjustments. The Raw Fine Tuning Engine was redone in Version 2, making the Raw Conversion Engine even more impressive. You'll see better detail in the shadows and less noise. And of course, support was added for the latest cameras that came out at that point. Additionally, they offered the ability to use dng files even from cameras that are not natively supported. That means that if you buy a new camera in the future before Aperture has native support for it, you can still shoot in raw and use Aperture. Now there's a Highlight Hot and Cold Pixel Option. When I turn it on and I come over to an image that has a blown-out area, you'll see it in red. And if I were to make an adjustment, such as adjust the black point here up higher, you'll see the blocked-up areas in blue. A Recover Slider was added that lets me recover highlight detail. This is different than the Highlight Shadow Adjustment because I'm actually accessing information that was captured on the sensor but was not previously available in the conversion. That way sometimes you can regain information that initially appeared to be blown-out. There's a Definition Slider that adds localized contrast and makes many images pop. The Vibrancy Slider adds saturation to colors while maintaining normal skin tones. The Black Point Slider that I mentioned a minute ago lets you set the black point with affecting the mid-tones and highlights of the image. But perhaps the best addition, at least to me, is the fantastic Retouch Tool that they added. You can access it by clicking X or clicking here. You can choose to repair or to clone an area and in the Repair Mode you can have Aperture choose the sources or you can choose the source yourself. Truly this tool works so well that it will save many, many, many trips to Photoshop. In Version 2, Aperture added both D Vignette and Vignette Tools and the ability to flip an image. If you want to unflip it, you can check. A custom Eyedropper was added to the Color Tools so that now you can specifically adjust any color within your image. Let me click on blue. I'll select the Eyedropper and I'll click on that color in the cloud. Not I can adjust the saturation of that specific color. I can make it darker or lighter. I can even adjust its hue if I want to. We'll go through that in more detail later. Let's say we have more than one image showing. The Primary Only Button let's us know for sure which image we're working on. That's a great convenience. In addition, Aperture 2 supports Tethered Shooting. That is attaching certain cameras and seeing the image immediately on your computer. It supports 16-bit printing and added sharpening and the Loop Tool to the Print Dialog so that you can sharpen at your output size. There's an All-Project View you can come to in the Projects Panel and quickly scan through the images in each and every one of your projects. All in all, there are a lot of new features all designed to make you more efficient and in later movies I'll be describing how to use of these new features in detail.