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for images, check out Chapters 5 and 6. Aperture is also a lot more flexible with managing your
photos, and unlike in iPhoto, images in Aperture can easily be stored on multiple hard drives.
Aperture 3 also adds great new tools to merge and split off collections of images, making it easy to
share image collections between two machines.
1.1 An image search that's easy to do in Aperture but just not practical in iPhoto.
Lastly, while there are similar features in iPhoto and Aperture, like Faces, Places, books, and slide
shows, they are just more powerful in Aperture. Aperture's Book tool, which we cover in Chapter 7,
has advanced layout options that let you completely customize the image and text boxes on your
page, or even use a photo to create a two-page background spread. Aperture's slide shows,
explored in Chapter 8, let you go beyond iPhoto's click-and-play slide shows, creating custom
titles, transitions, and music. You can even include HD video within an Aperture slide show.
In summary, while iPhoto is great for the casual consumer, just as you move from a point-and-
shoot camera to a dSLR to upgrade your photography, moving to Aperture from iPhoto lets you
upgrade your image-management tools.
Choosing Aperture over Bridge and Lightroom
For many photographers, Adobe Photoshop is the number one tool of choice for image work, and
we certainly agree that it's a great image-manipulation program (although Aperture's adjustment
tools combined with third-party Aperture plug-ins have made it so that we do more than 90 per-
cent of our manipulation work in Aperture instead of Photoshop). You might be asking yourself
why you shouldn't just use Adobe products, such as Adobe Bridge or Adobe Lightroom.
Bridge
Bridge, which comes free with your copy of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, gives you basic
organization features, such as letting you add keywords and captions to your images, and because
it lets you open your RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw, you can adjust your images in it, too.
 
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