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1. Allow us to to export RAW files directly to Photoshop/Adobe Camera RAW if we wish (and treat the result as a separate version).
2. Projects on multiple drives.
3. Curves! also Color Balance Controls.
4. Drag and drop from the import pane to any project (right now if I am importing to multiple projects I have to import, open the pane again, import, open the pane again)
5. Allow 2 copies registered to the same person to run at the same time on a network (essential for those of us with desktops & powerbooks).
6. Editing of all metadata including EXIF data.
7. Open Source Vault specs.
8. No more modal dialog boxes (or at the very least display them properly as sheets). It is especially important that the tasks dialog box be non-modal.
9. More drag area between panes (basically all lt grey should be drag/resize areas). Also no fixed sized dialog boxes especially the metadata dialogs.
10. Non modal export

1.
Support for exporting RAW images to other applications is critical, as Raul says.
AND it is critical that all metadata associated with a RAW file is exported as well.
2. With a large library created over a period of time with numerous cameras, all shot RAW, there needs to be broad support for all RAW formats SOON. Otherwise I will have some pictures in iView and some in Aperture. More likely I'll use Aperture to sort through a shoot, and then use Photoshop and iView thereafter.
Without these two improvements Aperture is not so much a workflow tool as it is a totally cool digital light table.
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