Aperture 2: Professionally Manage Digital Photographs
Authors: Ben Long, Richard Harrington, Orlando Luna
Company: Peachpit Press (Apple Pro Training Series)
ISBN: 978-0-321-53993-9, 486 pages plus DVD
Price: $54.99

Aperture 2 is the top of the line photo management and editing software from Apple. When Apple released Aperture 1.0 in 2005, it was a revolution, to say the least. We were used to having a photo classification method, be iPhoto, Adobe Bridge, or a directory structure, and a separate photo editor such as Photoshop. Aperture appeared to replace all of that, by combining both a photo management tool and a photo editor in the same application.

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