Josh Anon

Josh Anon

Biography

Josh Anon is a technical director at Pixar Animation Studios (with credits ranging from software engineering to cinematography) and an instructor at BetterPhoto.com.

His photographic experience includes over 10 years as a nature photographer and work in both stock and freelance photography. He founded Lightbox Software and wrote one of the first professional image management tools for Mac OS X, Lightbox, as well as various tools for Aperture and iPhoto.

Recently, he co-authored Aperture Exposed (Wiley, 2006). You can find out more about Josh and his photography at www.joshanon.com.

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Backup Strategies with Aperture, Part Two
Publish Date: Nov. 9, 2007In this second part of a two-part series, Josh Anon takes a look at the best ways to back up Aperture files with third party tools such as RSyncX, .Mac, and Retrospect, and online options. Josh also explores Leopard and Time Machine to see if there's functionality there for hardcore Aperture users. Backup Strategies with Aperture
Publish Date: Nov. 2, 2007In part one of this two-part series covering strategies for protecting your photos, Josh Anon discusses some basic archiving concepts and then delves into hard drive options, including RAID configurations. There's lots of food for thought here as you devise your strategy for storing images. What Does Photoshop CS3 Mean for Aperture Users?
Publish Date: May. 17, 2007Aperture's comprehensive set of photo management tools keep users within the Aperture environment for the bulk of their work. But for more complicated image editing tasks, round tripping to Photoshop is often the workflow of choice. CS3 offers improved performance and new tools, many of which will be of interest to Aperture users. In this article, Josh Anon take you on a tour of the best of these improvements.

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Deleting Images, January 06 2009
HyperDrive COLORSPACE UDMA, January 06 2009
Projects, Albums, and Folders, December 31 2008
What About Aperture Was Confusing?, December 17 2008
Nik Complete Collection for Aperture Available, December 03 2008
Long Term Image Storage and Aperture, November 19 2008
Optimizing an Image, Take 2, November 05 2008
A Non-Pro Laptop, October 21 2008
Adjustments Action Menu, October 01 2008
It's Almost Like a Trade Show is Coming, September 24 2008
Framing For Style, September 10 2008
Aperture and Keynote, August 27 2008
Ergonomics and the Digital Workflow, August 13 2008
All Projects and FlipBook, July 30 2008
Grid vs Filmstrip Browsers, July 16 2008
Customize Your Keyboard, July 02 2008
Adjusting an Image, June 18 2008
Get Started Writing an Aperture Plug-In, June 04 2008
Picking a Monitor, May 21 2008
Black Point and Shadows, May 07 2008
Lift and Stamp Tip, April 23 2008
Working With External Editors, April 09 2008
Labels Without Keywords, March 26 2008
Full Screen Mode Changes, March 07 2008
Two Random Tips, February 27 2008
Quick Preview, February 13 2008
OSX 10.5.2 update adds extra RAW support, February 11 2008
Reducing and Sorting Images, January 22 2008
Talking About Aperture, January 15 2008
Color Management and Aperture, January 02 2008
Speeding Up a Wedding Photographer, December 18 2007
Naked Light, December 17 2007
Naked Light, December 05 2007
A Small Issue With Disabling Previews, November 21 2007
A New Online Backup Solution, November 07 2007
A Great Use for Web Journals, October 24 2007
Adjusting your RAW files in Black & White, October 03 2007
Get Your Head Around Aperture 1.5 Reviewed, September 19 2007
Lots of Things to Discover, September 12 2007
Two Keyword Management Questions, August 29 2007
Backups! Backups for all!, August 15 2007
Do You Manipulate Your Photos?, August 01 2007
Do Aperture Users Need Photoshop?, July 18 2007
Shooting Fireworks, July 04 2007
Learning From Your Rejects, June 20 2007
New MacBook Pros and Aperture, June 06 2007
Editing Fast, May 23 2007
Aperture is Updating Previews, May 09 2007
Working With Metadata, April 25 2007
Three Not-So-Obvious Tips, March 27 2007
Three Not-So-Obvious Tips, March 27 2007
Accessing Your Image Files Outside of Aperture,

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