Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.
Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture makes RAW as easy as JPEG, letting you import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. From capture to output, you work directly with your RAW files, never having to first convert them into another format before viewing, adjusting, organizing, or printing them.
Check out the tour. It looks like photoshop might finally have some competition in the photo processing area. The interface looks really neat. It might be a little on the pricey side for what it does though, probably just so they can market it as "professional" software. Still neat looking though.