Picture resizing

I am new to Aperture and have a question about photo resizing. Many of you have heard of content aware resizing, does Aperture have something like that? I have to crop some pics and the object needs to be the same size as the original and not distorted .
Thanks

OK sorry if its unclear altho it seems straight forward to me.
Firstly i didn't mention cropping the image I am talking about reducing the overall image size which is something Aperture will only let you do on export to either another file/desktop or Flickr etc....
In Photoshop if I wanted to reduce an images overall size for the web I would go to the Image menu and select Image size and reduce the file size to what I needed and select Bicubic Sharper which apply's some form of sharpening whilst reducing the image size. I could then still apply some form of sharpening before outputting the file to the web/print.
As most photographers know when you reduce an images overall size you need to reapply some form of sharpening as the image has become slightly soft during the reduction process.
Now in Aperture you don't have this option, you can only reduce the images size via the export the file version menu with the "export preset" feature and that's it. You should have the option to apply sharpening to the reduced image file before exporting it.
Standard Workflow example;
Import raw file
Make adjustments
Sharpen image before output
Output to Flickr with preset of say fit within 1200 x 1200 pixels
Done
Now because the image has been reduced from XXXX pixels to 1200 the original sharpening applied in Aperture has been radically reduced and you need to resharpen the image, so.....
instead of uploading the 1200 pixel image to flickr I export it to the desktop instead (at that size) and then re-import it back into Aperture for further sharpening before exporting the file to Flickr. This is an added step in the workflow which shouldn't be necessary, you should be able to do this from within Aperture in the first place. It's a huge omission imo.
As an example I have uploaded 2 images to Flickr.
The first one has had sharpening applied in Aperture and then uploaded to Flickr as a 1200 pixel size image.
The second picture is the same picture but exported to my desktop as a 1200 pixel image and then re-imported to Aperture for further sharpening before being uploaded to Flickr.
Look at the Parrot's face, its pretty obvious which is the better looking image. Anyone who is exporting images which have been reduced on export directly from Aperture are exporting soft images. This needs to be addressed by Apple, you should be able to save a downsized image in Aperture without having to export it and then re-import it.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/44642565590dd1889f09o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/44642586638b38c57c4do.jpg
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