Customer Rating: 
Summary: Mwright
Comment: As someone who comes from an IT background, who has been a Photoshop user since version 3, I have to say the latest version of Aperture is a grand slam out-of-the-park home run. I used the trial versions of Adobe's Light Room, and Aperture, and came away from my experience with a clear preference to Apple's product primarily because Aperture's user interface is much more clear and intuitive.
A number of 3rd party developers have been busy making plug-ins for Aperture, but I've found, once you understand to basic tools included in this program, you won't find it lacking much at all. On those occasions you might want them, you can pop out of Aperture into Photoshop with ease.
If you feel you've outgrown iPhoto, and have any doubts this is the tool for you, download the free demo from Apple and take a test drive. Apple's site has 50 free tutorials to show you all the core elements and get you started. You'll be back to Amazon soon enough to get your copy...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best choice for Apple Macs
Comment: Everyone knows Aperture, so simply - the best program for photo-editing on Mac. BUY IT.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good but a bit buggy
Comment: A good program for serious photographers, with a few caveats: while it has helped studio workflow regarding photos tremendously, it has a few flaws: 1. performance: at times, it can seriously bog down. Improved quite a bit after the last 2.1 update, but still a bit of a problem at times. 2. Interface: its very non-standard interface can be *EXTREMELY* irritating at times. Oddly-shaped windows, strange, docking palettes and downright bizzare keyboard shortcuts really mar this product. I do enjoy some of the streamlining offered by the interface, and the fact that many shortcuts are single letters/symbols (esp. rotation and picking images) but wish that some of its interface were a little less "effect-y" and a little more effect-IVE.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Aperture 2 - Easy way to work a lot of photos
Comment: I used this product on a trial basis after shooting over 100 photos for a local dance performance. I was able to quickly crop, tweak, eliminate red-eye and perform a lot of other things quickly. I have Photoshop CS, but I have to upgrade in order to import my Nikon D300 images, so I thought I would give this a try as it is a less expensive answer than upgrading.
Obviously it is not as powerful as Photoshop, but I have found it to handle a lot of the basic photo modifications well. Aperture is not quite as complex or intimidating to use and doesn't require reading a book in order to figure out how to do the simple tasks. If I have a single photo that I need to spend a lot of time with or want to really change its' appearance drastically, it's off to Photoshop or Nikon Capture. If I have 50 pictures that need only minor tweaking, I'm using Apple's software.
I doubt that there's much Aperture will do that Photoshop won't, and if one takes the time to learn how to program Photoshop batch functions, maybe large numbers of photos can be handled just as quickly. But I do not think that many people could be as productive as quickly as they can with this software. It has Apple's hallmark intuitive processes that you would expect to be a part of the package. You can export a selection of photos to low or high resolution jpg files very easily. And for those who've not yet learned to shoot in the native RAW formats of their Nikons or Canons, you will be surprised to see just how many sub-par unprocessed JPG files can be transformed into winners by shooting in RAW and using the features in this software.
It's fairly priced, pretty powerful, and relatively simple to use. So shoot RAW, tweak, upload, print, frame up those stunning 8x10 photos in your office and start hearing people tell you how good a photographer you are!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A-poor-ture
Comment: I originally bough this product for the web-publish feature in Aperture, but to my disappointment this feature is terrible slow if you have large files it could take hours to publish them to the web and It distorts your image size. Bottom line, don't waste your money.
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