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January 06 2009
When I last wrote about projects, albums, and folders, a few people asked about deleting images. In this post, we'll try to clear up deleting. Throughout this post, keep two things in mind. Number one, pay close attention to what.... read moreJanuary 06 2009
Backup in the field is always a pain. Many people bring a small hard drive that is bus powered, like a G-DRIVE mini. Drives like this are a great way to backup a full Aperture project, including your selects, metadata,.... read moreDecember 31 2008
When I last asked what confused people the most about Aperture, many people commented that folders, albums, and projects were confusing. This week, we're going to take a few minutes to review this fundamental but potentially confusing topic. Projects are.... read moreWhat About Aperture Was Confusing?
December 17 2008
This week, we're going to do something different. Let's have a discussion instead of a monologue. Way back when, when we were all first starting to shoot digitally or to organize film scans, I'm betting you were like me and.... read moreNik Complete Collection for Aperture Available
December 03 2008
Over the past few months, a number of us have written about the individual Nik Software plugins for Aperture. Ellen wrote about the Dfine noise reduction tool here, Micah wrote about Sharpener Pro here and Silver Efex Pro (for converting.... read moreLong Term Image Storage and Aperture
November 19 2008
How many of you have heard of Cinerama? You can read about it on Wikipedia here, but the short story is that it's an obsolete film technology that used 3 35mm projectors to create a widescreen image. Mainly used during.... read moreNovember 05 2008
A little while ago, Angel Island, an island in the middle of the San Francisco bay, caught fire. It started at about 9:30 and burned through the next day. I found out about it around 11pm, and it seemed like.... read moreOctober 21 2008
I've become a big fan of having two machines. I have a wonderful, 8-core Mac Pro on my desk with lots of Firewire devices and RAID arrays for Aperture. I also have an aging MacBook Pro, which is nice and.... read moreOctober 01 2008
All throughout Aperture, there are Action menu buttons with some great goodies underneath. These little buttons, with gear-like icons, reveal menus that have commands you won't find under the menu bar and are sometimes hard to find under context menus..... read moreIt's Almost Like a Trade Show is Coming
September 24 2008
From 100GB CF cards to a 21-megapixel camera that can also shoot 1080p video, there have been a slew of photographic announcements this past week. You would almost imagine that a trade show is coming. Or Christmas. Or massive credit.... read moreSeptember 10 2008
We all spend a lot of effort really making our images look as good as possible, using all sorts of different tools. Yet an equally important part of the equation is how we frame and matte our images, both physically.... read moreAugust 27 2008
One great feature about using a Mac is that Mac developers often go the extra mile to make their app integrate into the system. For example, Keynote (as well as a number of other apps) has a media browser that.... read moreErgonomics and the Digital Workflow
August 13 2008
It's amazing when you go shooting how easy it is to ignore pain. We'll happily contort our bodies into odd positions that would make a yoga master proud, trying to get just the right angle on something. And usually once.... read moreJuly 30 2008
I'm going to cover two things today, the first of which is the All Projects view. If you're like me, you have a lot of projects in your Aperture library, and sometimes it's tough to remember exactly what is in.... read moreJuly 16 2008
In Aperture 1, the Browser had only two different modes, Grid view and List view. Aperture 2 adds a new mode called Filmstrip. List view is pretty distinct (it's a table of your images), but Grid and Filmstrip are easy.... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
