Aperture & Photo retouching

Question

This may not be the best place to place this question, but I can't find a way to e-mail it to Apple.
Apple's new Aperture program, while pricey, looks like a great one to use with iPhoto. But on occasion I need to remove or change an undesireable object in a photo, e.g., a telephone pole or light pole from an archectural shot, filling in the space by cloning another area of the photo. I don't see in the Aperture specs whether this can be done; red-eye, etc., yes, but nothing to the extent I am thinking of.
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

I use a Nikon D70 and also have a Nikon D100, with some pretty good lenses for each. I've used Nikon SLR cameras since the original F.
With the D70 I like to shoot in NEF (raw) + JPEG (small) when I can. For some time now I have been looking for a good product to allow editing and printing in NEF, but have not been sold yet on Nikon's or Photoshop's version. I have both Photoshop Elements 2.0 and Photoshop 7.0, neither of which can handle NEF files from their basic programs.
It was my understanding for reading Apple's web information about Aperture that it worked hand-in-hand with iPhoto, that at the least, you can retreive photos from iPhoto's library for manipulation, arranging or whatever, and that originals would essentially remain in iPhoto. Where they stay isn't really important--that was just how it looked to me.
Aperture looks like a great program, but I wanted to satisfy myself it could also do the editing I would like to do with a NEF file, without first changing that file to a format Photoshop 7 can handled (which I guess would be JPEG, TIFF, etc.).
Anyway, Apple doesn't provide that information in the material I looked at.