Aperture Crop Features vs Lightroom

I have been running the Aperture trial and I like the look of version 3 and its nice integration with Mac and other significant features.
But, I really like the crop guide overlays in Lightroom (there are about 4 of them). Are there plug-ins that would offer the same overlays in Aperture?
Also, I can't seem to control the brightness in the part of the image that is outside of the cropped area when working on the crop. Is there any way to do this in Aperture?
These seem like small things but for me critical in the creative process. Any ideas/info on this?

The Lightroom overlays are nice. Go to Lr (if you have it), go to crop mode ("r"), and then cycle through the overlays by pressing "o".
Afaik, this is not available in Ap3. Recommend via "Aperture>>Provide Aperture Feedback".

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Everyone? Guess I'm not everyone because I'm not seeing this problem at all. And the sluggishness of the 1x versions has all but disappeared with this new update. As culcheth said you might want to define +wigging out+...
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What's the "layer" adjustment?
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Not sure if anyone else is using vault however for backing up here's my homebrew solution. I used the vault feature only to discover I can't do all the jolly things (like printing etc) of course having not backed up my images when I deleted the vault they were gone too.... (just a test shoot but nonetheless....)! Perhaps others have more joyous stories to tell about vault however if you're not happy maybe this'll help. I have an external drive which I use solely for backup the minute I bring a job in the images go in a folder called (project name)RAWbackup and then into aperture (effectively saving twice although you can reverse the order -aperture first and export next- I wouldn't reccomend it as you can mistakenly reduce the quality -by choosing to export > versions instead of masters). I found that as the months progressed my MackBook drive became clogged up which forced me to edit out a few images to start with and then more more... which means I now have a very good historical set which I can show and be assured the originals are backed up.
minor gripe predictive form text... defaults alphabetically in ascending order need to be in descending order to assist workflow. I presume other users use numbers/dates in IPTC i.e. I usually copyright in the following format --© (date) George Bitsanis-- which means all my image inputs default to 2004 (earliest image date I've imported) tedious really if it were descending it would default to 2009 and save the hassle.... also a way to control of be able to filter predictive texting i'e coming up with most used term first
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