Quick Overview

Never run out of hard drive space.
As your iPhoto library grows, it may become too big to store on your computer’s hard drive. Aperture lets you set up as many external drives as you want and specify where to store each of your photos — without changing anything in your Aperture library. You can access and edit your photos the way you usually do, no matter where the originals are stored. This feature also allows you to add hard drives one at a time, whenever you need them. So your setup can grow along with your library.

Do more with Places and Faces.
If you like using Places and Faces in iPhoto, you’ll love them in Aperture 3. Now, with Places in Aperture, you can add a location to a photo using data from your GPS-enabled camera or iPhone or just drag the photo to a location on the interactive map. With Faces, use the corkboard to see all the people in a single project — or across your entire library. You can also search for photos of people you haven’t named yet and easily add their names. Places and Faces in Aperture are just like the features you know from iPhoto, only better.