Does Aperture 3 include a merge HDR editing tool?

Does Apeeture 3 include a "merge HDR editig" tool?

No, it does not.  Aperture's adjustments are to make individual photographs as good as possible.  Combining photographs in any way (compositing) must be done with an external editor.  Many use Aperture to group, stack, prepare, and export shots for HDR (and focus stacking, etc.), and then import the resulting file into Aperture and place it with the Stack.  In this way you save your source material as well as your result, and you can use Aperture to administer (and prepare for publication) your HDR picture.

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    Message was edited by: tidysteve
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    I have been working with iPhoto since its infancy and have one big issue with it, namely that it is such a closed system. I dislike that everything needs to be imported and exported to use it elsewhere, clogging up my computer with all these duplicates. Does Aperture handle that better? I spent 2 hours reading different reviews and discussions and for some reason, nobody seems to discuss exactly that, maybe most people don't mind to have a vault structure? If so, how do you handle sharing files outside of the tools like Facebook export etc that are offered?
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    namely that it is such a closed system.
    It's not. It's a Database and this
    everything needs to be imported...
    is a characteristic of databases. This
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    2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
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    TD

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