At the end of the day, I don’t think you can currently do better than what Aperture has to offer,” concludes Erik Vlietinck (it-enquirer.com) in his review of Aperture 2.1. “It has a strong management system, excellent adjustments, a near-perfect RAW engine that gets basic corrections right in 99.90% of the cases as far as I can see, and support for plug-ins.” In awarding the application a five-star (out of five) rating, he applauds its “ vastly more streamlined” interface and its “dramatic speed boost.” And he points out that the quality of Aperture’s “built-in RAW adjustments — even in automatic mode — is simply stunning.”
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