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Apple Aperture 2 announced

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Apple today introduced Aperture 2, a major update to its photo editing and management software. The new version bosts over 100 new features and the promise of being faster, easier to use and more powerful. The UI has been streamlined, the image processing engine has been revamped, and Aperture 2 now includes new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning. All this lets users directly post their portfolios on a .Mac Web Gallery for viewing on the web, iPhone , iPod touch and Apple TV. The new reduced price of USD$199 is probably the most user-friendly new feature of all.

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Extensis to host expert font panels and seminars at Macworld

349788497 4528ba3a55 m Extensis to host expert font panels and seminars at MacworldExtensis tells us that it will host a series of expert font panels and presentations at this year’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Extensis will present daily sessions that highlight font management specialists and industry authorities in the Extensis booth (#826) on the Macworld Conference & Expo show floor.

On Tuesday, January 9th, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., well-known font evangelist Stephen Coles will lead the discussion titled “The Art of Type” with a panel of expert typographers discussing the joys and pitfalls of type design.

On Wednesday, January 10th, from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., Extensis product marketing manager Halstead York will lead an expert panel titled “Working with Type in Design Applications.” Experts included in this session are Thomas Phinney, Program Manager for Adobe, respected designer and author Andrew Shalat, and Martin Stein, Vice President of Corporate Solutions for Extensis. In this session insiders discuss the technologies, techniques and challenges of working with fonts in the leading layout applications.

The highlighted speaker for Thursday, January 11th, and Friday, January 12th, is acclaimed type designer Chank Diesel. Chank will be presenting “High-Octane Type” from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. on Thursday and “Working with OpenType” from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

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