If you have been constantly using Aperture through the years, and if along the way you've developed an intuitive degree of mastery over it, you will begin to experience what a really awesome tool it is. This has been my experience as a professional photographer.

It's amazing when you know what each and every button is for, and how you can access them almost easily. It's cool when you know what the keyboard commands are, what the shortcuts are, how the contextual menus work, and what each mouse-click-away icon can do.

For example, even the utter simplicity of pressing F that transforms Aperture into a full-screen view is in itself just elegant. (Pressing F again toggles it back into Aperture's previous view.)

This is why, every day, I cannot help but be still really amazed at how fast and how easy I can go through my post-production work with Aperture. Having earnestly mastered Aperture, from each and every practical and useful button, down to all the interface shortcut controls, and also the various modifiers; and then because I constantly use it, it's not far-fetched that Aperture has turned out for me into a really indispensable post-production tool.

Now that Aperture has been updated to version 2.0 with new functionalities and features, and now that there is an OS level support for new RAW image files, looks like things are going to be "shiny and new" all over again just like a you know what.

As a working professional photographer, I welcome this awesome development. It just made my best current post-production workflow tool better.

Now, it's time to discover all the new fun stuff. I'm taking it one step at a time, like you know what!