You can now register as a bona fide genuine user at the site. Although I abhor such things, at some point I may require a logged in person to download larger content so I don’t get blasted on bandwidth for automated downloaders that don’t really even care about what the content is. Don’t worry you can use a fake email if you want, just prove that you are a human. Check it out and let me know if a) it works for everybody and b) your thoughts on this...
A follow up from the “Joy” post. Just a couple of thoughts while doing some testing of the site prior to moving the permanent domain name. I clearly remember the day I got one of those pretty email adverts from Apple announcing the launch of Aperture. I was sitting at my desk slogging though about 1200 images that I had shot that day doing the usual torturous routine of bringing up the RAW images in whatever application was the least of all evils in terms of making comparisons and...
Check it out no more rumaging around to just get the PDF downloads. Any revisions updates or new PDFs on Aperture will always be right there. As if you can’t see it screaming at the top of the page, get the hot off the presses PDF guides. RB
Today while I was waiting for the light rail in one of the the grand old Pennsylvania railroad stations, a place that I have been in and around countless times, thinking as I alway do, “I have to bring my camera and take some shots of this place soon”, guess what happend. I saw someone that actually brought his camera and who was actually taking pictures. I sat and watched him for a minute or two and felt compelled to wave to him as my train arrived and I...
In the effort to keep this overview an actual over view I will discuss two basic approaches. Of course there are endless variations, and permutations, and combinations of each of these so feel free to mix and match until you find the right way for your workflow. The first approach being based on the concept that each Aperture library is separate and distinct. One on the “main†computer back at home base, the other being a portable library on your laptop computer. The second approach is based on the...
If you create a folder while clicked on the library (or another blue folder) you get a blue folder. You can group projects together inside a blue folder as well as other blue folders. That’s pretty evident but one of the other things that you can do is create other things like smart albums inside a blue folder that are not inside any one project. The really cool thing about smart albums in a blue folder is that the search criteria is restricted to only the projects that are...
As I have mentioned in a couple of my PDF’s on Aperture, I make extensive use of stacks. Not just for Album picks or multiple takes on the same image as discussed in my previous quick tip but to help get to my “selects†when I have shot many variations of the same subject. Here is how Apertures stack mode helps me do that.
One of the concepts that I emphasize in the organization eBook is how useful the simple album is in combination with stacks due to the capability of each and every album to have it’s very own album pick that behaves as the only image version in the stack when the stack is closed. I gave two quick examples of creating an album for 8×10 crops and another for black and white conversions. In my Aperture workflow I almost always group similar images into a stack, then make the best...
Now I am not claiming to listening to everything out there but I have had the opportunity to hear a ton of them.By a ton I mean dozens, not dozens of episodes but dozens of podcasts. For the most part I listened to all of the episodes, no matter how inane, inaccurate, or downright intellectually insulting weekly sales pitches masquerading as instructional materials.
A friend asked me to take a couple of portraits for her sporting a new hair style. Not next week or next month but now. Hey you have a camera, you take a lot of pictures, how hard can it be? She needed them for something or another, I forget. At first I started to make excuses about the location (her living room), I don’t have any of the stuff I need, the light is no good, blah, blah, etc. When I realized that she was not going to...
