Customer Rating: 
Summary: iphoto with more teeth
Comment: This program is basically a more involved iphoto. You can change levels, crop or straighten, add all your meta-info and organize the photos. If you want this to take place of photoshop cs3 or something like that, you aren't going to be happy with Aperature at all. badbadbad for image manipulation..goodgood for adjusting contrast or exposure. Actually, iphoto is good enough. Dont buy this, get photoshop.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good, but not outstanding
Comment: Nice set of features. Pretty good raw converter, however noise reduction algorithms can be improved. Major drawback for me is under heavy usage - Aperture (with latest patches etc) regulary (once in couple of hours) crashes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Powerful, flexible and a resource hog
Comment: I am an amateur photographer who shoots a lot of RAW files. I bought Aperture because I liked the powerful organizational and correction tools, as well as the flexibility built into the work flow. I really like being able to tag my files with keywords during the import process. Stacks are a wonderful way to quickly reduce the number of photos at which I am looking. Non-destructive editing of my files is great and I really appreciate that Aperture conserves hard drive space by not creating a new file when I apply changes. Unlike Photoshop Lightroom, which I also tried, Aperture makes it easy to do the photo management and improvement steps in any order that I choose. The one big problem is that Aperture can be very slow. I have an Intel iMac with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 3 GB of RAM. Aperture still slows down on a regular basis and makes me wait for it. The issue may be that I have only 128 MB of video RAM. I would recommend trying the trial version if there is any doubt about the speed of your Mac.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Terrific photo organization product - and then some.
Comment: Apple has again outdone themselves and created a terrific tool for organizing and cataloging photographs. There is a small learning curve, as to be expected with any product that provides so much flexibilty, but the user's manual that came with the product is excellent and walks you through everything you need to know - easily and understandably. Some of the best money I've ever spent.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Apple Aperture V1.5
Comment: This is truly a professional level digital photography post-processing package. It is also excellent for handling and storing digital imagery. It sports several features that are very unique, for example if you already have a photographic file structure you can have Aperture pull the images without moving them and changes made to these images do not impact the original files.
This is a must have package if you do digital photo post processing on the Macintosh.
Summary: iphoto with more teeth
Comment: This program is basically a more involved iphoto. You can change levels, crop or straighten, add all your meta-info and organize the photos. If you want this to take place of photoshop cs3 or something like that, you aren't going to be happy with Aperature at all. badbadbad for image manipulation..goodgood for adjusting contrast or exposure. Actually, iphoto is good enough. Dont buy this, get photoshop.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good, but not outstanding
Comment: Nice set of features. Pretty good raw converter, however noise reduction algorithms can be improved. Major drawback for me is under heavy usage - Aperture (with latest patches etc) regulary (once in couple of hours) crashes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Powerful, flexible and a resource hog
Comment: I am an amateur photographer who shoots a lot of RAW files. I bought Aperture because I liked the powerful organizational and correction tools, as well as the flexibility built into the work flow. I really like being able to tag my files with keywords during the import process. Stacks are a wonderful way to quickly reduce the number of photos at which I am looking. Non-destructive editing of my files is great and I really appreciate that Aperture conserves hard drive space by not creating a new file when I apply changes. Unlike Photoshop Lightroom, which I also tried, Aperture makes it easy to do the photo management and improvement steps in any order that I choose. The one big problem is that Aperture can be very slow. I have an Intel iMac with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 3 GB of RAM. Aperture still slows down on a regular basis and makes me wait for it. The issue may be that I have only 128 MB of video RAM. I would recommend trying the trial version if there is any doubt about the speed of your Mac.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Terrific photo organization product - and then some.
Comment: Apple has again outdone themselves and created a terrific tool for organizing and cataloging photographs. There is a small learning curve, as to be expected with any product that provides so much flexibilty, but the user's manual that came with the product is excellent and walks you through everything you need to know - easily and understandably. Some of the best money I've ever spent.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Apple Aperture V1.5
Comment: This is truly a professional level digital photography post-processing package. It is also excellent for handling and storing digital imagery. It sports several features that are very unique, for example if you already have a photographic file structure you can have Aperture pull the images without moving them and changes made to these images do not impact the original files.
This is a must have package if you do digital photo post processing on the Macintosh.