Archives / 2008 / August

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Aperture and Metadata Display

In the screen shot to the left you can see just about every metadata display option known to man, or at least known to Aperture. We have the metadata pane in the inspector, the metadata pane in the HUD, metadata overlays in both the viewer and the browser and last but certainly not least the poor old (and sometimes annoying) metadata tooltips. This short article will guide you through how you can use them in your image workflow.

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Adobe Lightroom2 and DNG camera profiles

Let me start out by stating that I am an Aperture zealot. I jumped on board Aperture from day one and believe that the product’s introduction was revolutionary. Heck it kicked Adobe in the head and woke the digital media giant into understanding what photographers really need, hence Photoshop Lightroom and now the (if I must say so) excellent Lightroom2. I can forgive Apple for the lame plugin implementation of dodge and burn, I can forgive no multi-adjustment presets, even if they do seem idiotically easy to implement. What...