I upgraded to Aperture 3 recently, it seems a lot of people have been having trouble with the new version. Luckily I got through the upgrade with only some minor issues that were quickly solved. Having had a chance to play with the app I have to say that I’m loving the new Places feature.

At first I noticed that Aperture had automatically put all my iPhone pictures on the map and was content to leave it at that and not go through the hassle of trying to add GPS coordinates to the rest of my pictures. But once I started looking around in Places I found out you can search for places and Aperture automatically searches Google right from within the app. This allowed me to quickly put a couple of thousand pictures on the map by searching for monuments, city names, restaurants, and so on. It’s a really cool feature that worked perfectly for me, and I love being able to look at a map of the world and zoom into all the places I’ve visited and photographed.

The non-destructive brushes are also bad ass, but I’ll leave that for another post.