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Update

CreativePro has a new article up talking in depth about Aperture and though it is strictly based on what Apple has made public and an interview they conducted, it provides more detail and some screenshots of the product. If you are an agency IT guy, you need to be ready to get at least one copy in to test. Though I suspect, and most concurr, that Aperture will not kill Photoshop like Final Cut killed Premiere, it may be close.

Apple has just surprised everybody (except me of course, I said they had something extra up their sleeve) by introducing Aperture a RAW format end to end workflow and photo editing software. There have been some rumblings that the Macromedia Adobe merger would endanger Photoshop on the Mac platform. Though Aperture is not as feature rich as Photoshop, it is finetuned to provide services needed by photographers not provided by Photoshop and as such may eat into their market. Some of the features are a lightbox, versioning that provides non-destructive modification to originals, etc. Aperture will be available in November for $499.
read more at Apple’s web site.