Apple has just updated Aperture, its own professional photo editing and management software, with some bug fixes and a few new features, including the ability to upload photos, go full screen in OS X Lion with the native full screen button, toggle gestures, and load slideshows in the background. Improved stability and a few enhancements make this quite a worthy update for Apple’s highly-praised professional photo editing app.

Hot on the heels of the announcement of iLife ’11, Apple has posted an update to Aperture, bumping it up to version 3.1. This version contains a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements, along with compatibility for iLife ’11. But don’t write it off a a simple update; Apple has quite a long update list in the Release Notes.

Today’s Apple Store offline time has brought us Aperture 3. Aperture is Apple’s pro equivalent to iPhoto, and some of the features they’ve added today seem to play off of that relationship. Aperture 3 now supports Faces, Places and Brushes. In addition, there are over 200 new features present. It’s available today for $199 or as an upgrade from a previous version of Aperture for $99, and a 30 day trial is available.