Ok .. this one I've been waiting for a while now ... I've been getting progressively excited about Aperture 2! And now, it's finally here. The biggest thing that I am looking for is improvement in raw processing and speed. But, to begin with, Aperture 1.5's raw processing was already excellent to begin with! And the speed wasn't bad.

The real difference is in how fast you can achieve quality results. For standard photo processing, the differences are not going to be huge. You definitely have more creative control without having to export to Photoshop for some photo tricks, but in the end it's still another tool.

One of my favorite photo effects that I REALLY wished Aperture had was (more...)

I was "digging" today and found out about this photo editing tool called "Picnik". It's completely Flash based (from what I can tell) and allows you to do basic post processing of photos. Control the white balance, saturation, contrast, exposure, sharpness, etc. Pretty cool. To the left is a picture from Death Valley at Zabriskie Point that I took last May, edited in Picnik! They've also got a feature to edit your Flickr photos (or any public Flickr photo). Even better!
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