If you, like me, have reached the limits of iPhoto, the recently-introduced Mac App Store provided two fantastic reasons to upgrade to Aperture: 1.) Apple’s pro-level photo manager is now less than half its old price (and less than a quarter of its starting price), and 2.) you no longer need to pay for iPhoto if you use another piece of the iLife suite. Practically a steal at $79 in the App Store, Aperture 3 is packed with useful features, and the general consensus seems to be that it is finally on par with Adobe’s Lightroom offering.

Aperture 2.1 has been given an Editor’s Choice Award for imaging software from PopPhoto.com. Just last year, Aperture received 2007 Imaging Software of the Year from this same website, so this isn’t Aperture’s first time in the limelight. One of the reasons the people over at PopPhoto chose this product was that it “…simply changed more »

Surely you remember Adobe’s new web-based image editor, Photoshop Express. Why would Adobe release part of Photoshop’s power for free to the public? Simple. They want to allow users to familiarize themselves with some of the features of PS for free in hopes that they will then go on to purchase the boxed version. Now, more »