{"id":1687,"date":"2008-03-11T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/aperture-20-review\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T01:33:52","slug":"aperture-20-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/aperture-20-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Aperture 2.0 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/reviews\/apps\/aperture-2-review.ars\">Ars Technica<\/a> has a good review of Aperture 2.0:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/reviews\/apps\/aperture-2-review.ars\">\n<p>The Color Vibrancy is genuinely great at doing what it is designed for: &ldquo;selectively boosting saturation without adversely affecting skin tones.&rdquo; [&#8230;] It&rsquo;s definitely effective, and I can&rsquo;t quite figure out what it&rsquo;s doing, which (as a retoucher) is driving me a little crazy. Local contrast definition, on the other hand, looks a little more familiar. Advertised as &ldquo;offering local contrast for adding clarity to images,&rdquo; the Definition adjustment looks a lot like unsharp masking with a really wide pixel radius.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a good review of Aperture 2.0: The Color Vibrancy is genuinely great at doing what it is designed for: &ldquo;selectively boosting saturation without adversely affecting skin tones.&rdquo; [&#8230;] It&rsquo;s definitely effective, and I can&rsquo;t quite figure out what it&rsquo;s doing, which (as a retoucher) is driving me a little crazy. Local contrast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-23T01:33:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"dd3a454e-a423-4ae4-bc2b-5b0f625173fc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-23T01:33:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3TpFTqQjSuS8K1sPYlFz_A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[114,30],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aperture","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22530,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/22530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}